Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until this time the Museum has not been equipped with burglar alarms because every exhibit is locked at night and movement between rooms is difficult. Also, a watchman is supposed it make a tour of the building every two hours...
Until October, the sewer route worked perfectly. But the Vopos spotted a group trying to flee, tossed tear-gas bombs down the manhole, and reportedly wired all East-West sewers with burglar alarms and microphones. Abruptly, the Travel Bureau was put out of business. Not until last week, when disclosure of the abandoned underground railway no longer mattered, was its existence revealed. By then, the bureau's 50 voluntary agents were back at more conventional studies, reunited in the West with the 600 lucky clients who had successfully completed the Travel Bureau's exclusive tours...
Gaudiest of all the murders was that of Albert Testa, a midget-model (4 ft. 6 in.) burglar, counterfeiter and gambler, who was shot twice and dumped into a West Side alley. Testa was a friend of the late William ("Action") Jackson, a 300-lb. "juice man" (a collector of loans for gangland usurers known as "juice dealers"), who was tortured to death and stuffed into the trunk of his Cadillac last August. Testa, 48, had also been romancing an 18-year-old, green-eyed stripper who moonlighted as a police informer, picked up her lowdown by keeping her ears...
...owner or the insurance company. But with all the news of high prices at art auctions and of recent art burglaries all over, a lot of crooks of the wrong kind are getting into art theft. Last week the police were looking for the vandalous and amateur burglar or burglars who jimmied the front door of the house of Pittsburgh's famed art buyer, Steelman G. David Thompson, and ransacked his collection...
Thompson, crushed that while going out for the evening he had forgotten to turn on his elaborate burglar alarm, took the crudity of the theft to mean that no professional burglar had been at work. Only a fat reward, with no questions to be asked, he decided, might bring back the loot, and he at once offered...