Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Line & Sinker. In Madison, Wis., when Herbert C. Fischer tried to outsmart a persistent burglar by rigging up a camera trap to catch him in the act, the burglar, on his next visit, ignored the bait ($2, a ring and a watch), made off with the $150 camera...
Credit Rating. In Central Falls, R.I., when an irate burglar found no money in John Marks's store, he left a hastily scribbled note: "What! Are you bankrupt...
From San Francisco to San Diego, thousands of Californians, shaken as though by a giant hand, jumped from their beds, felt the floor move eerily under their bare feet, heard an unearthly jangle of church bells, burglar alarms and shattering window glass at 4:52 a.m. They learned that they had felt the waves of a major earthquake, centering near the little mountain town of Tehachapi, Calif, (pop. 1,685), 75 miles north of Los Angeles...
...burgled . . ., values were no matter, and you were hanged, even if you took a penny or saucepan only. 'Putting in fear' was the important, unforgivable thing . . ." Nowadays in Britain, continued Herbert, "there is growing up, I feel, a notion that it is not cricket to hurt a burglar, though he may do anything...
...days later, as if to justify A.P. Herbert's words, a respectable meat merchant of Watford was haled into court for "the unlawful and malicious wounding" of a burglar whom he had shot as the man crept into his bedroom at 4:30 a.m. one morning in February. The Watford judge forgave the merchant the crime on the grounds that he had probably shot "in panic," and dismissed him with a $60 fine "for costs...