Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police identified the woman as Bertha Walt, a pretty young Zurich office worker. The night before she had carried some bread away from the dinner table, and apparently went to the zoo to feed Chang. There was a keeper's door in the wall at the back of the elephant pit through which she could have entered. To a friend she had said: "I often find animals kinder than people...
Orange marks from the smoke shell, which Thalhofer pushed out the door, remained in the snow in the back yard, in addition to remains of the bomb...
Then something told Thalhofer that further efforts might not be healthy he backtracked into the Coop, disposing of the second smoke bomb, which had been left at the back door to aid in the escape...
...trio quickly made their way out the rear door, and field to a getaway car located on Church street. At this point the two policemen took note of the suspicious speed of the vehicle, Gould recording the license plate Mass...
Observers thought that a total of five men took part in the robbery. In addition to the three who swept out a back door convoying the loot, it is probable that an accomplice left through the Coop's front door, traveled down Brattle Street, and joined the three bandits as they ran up Palmer Street toward Church Street...