Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Methuen, Mass., the burglar who broke into Stanley Dimmock's house and stole a camera came back a week later for the flashgun attachment...
...Light Touch. In Denver, before he made away with his loot of $19.50, a burglar apologized to Mrs. Gayle Friedrich, asked solicitously, "Will this leave you with enough ... to get along...
Competition. In Oklahoma City, Wayne Edwin Leverich, after being arrested for burglary, bemoaned to police the hard lot of the thief: only the night before he had tried breaking into a drive-in, but found another burglar already...
...decades as a professional burglar, gaunt, nervous Steve Rumnoch had done nicely at his specialty-breaking into houses. His score: 800 jobs, no arrests. But he had been caught four times for breaking into stores, had spent 15 years in prison. Life behind walls was intolerable to him and he grew morose and hopeless in "stir." Nevertheless during his last stretch, 34 months at the Iowa State Penitentiary, he forced himself to plan a better life for the future...
...also mulled ways & means of getting the boodle, set down a sort of burglar's handbook: "Bend end of small screw driver to get between glass and putty . . . Buy diamonds with cash from Cartier's-when I want to sell a hot one show the receipt . . . Dogs love the smell and taste of cinnamon . . . Scotch Tape stuck on a pane of frosted glass enables one to see through, but not out . . . use bulb in toilet bowl to hide diamonds . . . Leave phony overcoat button at scene...