Word: clothesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University Police have assigned three plain clothesmen to patrol the Harkness Commons at night, in the wake of stealing from this area, Chief of University Police Matthew Toohy reported yesterday...
Radcliffe Dean Emily B. Lacey, in confirming the story last night, said she had called the police "out of interest to find out what they were doing" several days after the incident occurred. The plan-clothesmen could report no progress then, but did return to Henry House to take footprint molds...
...stop a car heist. Then a stool pigeon tells him that a well-known hood is back in town to pull a bank job. Piece by piece, evidence comes in to connect the hood with the heist. By 9 a.m. the bank in question is staked out with plain clothesmen. At 1 p.m. the visiting hood and his gang strike, as expected. After a savage gun battle, two thugs get away-without the loot. By 5 p.m. the captain has cracked two witnesses and, on their information, caught the rest of the gang on the getaway. He thereupon calmly goes...