Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thin, sad Burglar René Girier was a slippery one, no doubt about it. Because of his attenuated form they called him René the Stick, and truly it sometimes seemed as though René could slip through holes that would stop a toothpick. In 1942 the Vichy police had picked him up for robbing a farm, and René had skipped across the border into occupied France. The Germans picked him up there and sent him to a labor camp in Berlin. Two weeks later he had escaped again and was back in Paris...
...Well. In Houston, police pieced together the evidence, concluded that the burglar who broke into the Hi-Lo Oil Co. building 1) tried without success to open up the cash register, the cigarette machine, the soft-drink machine; 2) tried to drive away with a trailer truck which jackknifed; 3) placed two long distance telephone calls and found nobody home; 4) quit in disgust...
...safe was opened by combination, indicating that the burglar was either a professional operative or "on the inside," according to Lt. Breen...
...with a Future. In Long Beach, Calif., the Clara Lane Friendship Center reported that a burglar had made off with a file listing the names, addresses, telephone numbers, physical specifications and incomes of over 100 unattached women...
...North African campaign; after suffering major reverses in Greece and Crete, he was transferred to India (1941), where he organized the defense against the Japanese invasion threat. A soldier's soldier, he once said that the combat infantryman, should combine the arts of "a successful poacher, at cat-burglar and a gunman...