Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rich Long Islanders became jittery as the "summer phantom," a daring jewel robber who has baffled police for two years, renewed operations with his usual success. In Mineola Mrs. Clarence Mackay, the onetime Operasinger Anna Case (see col. 2), hid her jewels in the closet, foiled the burglar by leaving exposed an empty case which she found pried open next morning. In Mill Neck, while Mrs. George Bullock entertained guests on her lawn, the thief sneaked upstairs, pocketed $20,000 in gems. Same evening he crept into the palatial home of William Robertson Coe, two miles away at Locust Valley...
...Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y., Burglar Charlie Tortora, faced with a five-year term, fretted about his 18-year-old wife Anna. Burglar Louis Wolf, leaving on parole, promised to take care of her. Arrested last week in Brooklyn and charged with 75 burglaries were Louis Wolf, Anna Tortora...
...judgment of competent scholars. Last week chastened Chairman Nye asked the Senate for $7,369 to let his committee hear out Banker J. P. Morgan & friends, pay off its employes, print its record. Not a single Senator opposed this graceful fadeout. Senator Connally temperately limited himself to declaiming: "The burglar who breaks into a house at night doesn't believe in private rights or security. The jackal or the hyena that invades a cemetery to fatten its own body by digging up the dead does not believe in the sanctity of the tomb. . . . Let [the Nye committee] come...
Police swarmed to Dunster House Friday morning when it was reported that either a student or a burglar was crawling about the roof of the building...
...Federal Reserve Branch Bank of Memphis, Tennessee's bumbling old Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar thought he would see how good the police were. He stepped on a burglar alarm. Police arrived in two minutes, took Senator McKellar to the lockup...