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Accommodation. In Milwaukee, when three thugs dropped a bundle of $20 bills while making their getaway from the First Wisconsin National Bank, Anton Schutte innocently picked up the money and ran after them calling: "You dropped something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...Clean Getaway. In Phoenix, after William Pilling told police that he got off fairly easily when a burglar stole only $6 and a Stetson hat, he discovered that the thief had also taken a bath, left a ring around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 27, 1951 | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

Steps Going Down. In San Francisco, trying to make a getaway from the bank he had just robbed, 19-year-old James Wheelock decided to waste no time unlocking his own car, got into another, ordered its occupant to drive away, learned that the car was jacked up for repairs, jumped into a third car that drove up, found it occupied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 9, 1951 | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

Although neither Tiernan, nor James F. Daly, Deputy Superintendent of Police, nor F.B.I. Bureau Chief Edward A. Soney will give out the slightest hint as to the progress of the case, they have switched their attention to different leads almost weekly. Descriptions of the getaway vehicle have varied from two cars to one truck. An attempt was made to link the robbery to everyone from a gang that robbed the Sturtevant plant in Readville, New York, to a prominent Boston bookie. Arrests have included a soldier in New York and a farmer in Stoughton...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/5/1950 | See Source »

...deal with a smuggler to carry eight Chinese into the U.S., runs into a double cross that forces him to kill the smuggler and dump his passengers onto a Mexican beach. Then Morgan's troubles multiply until they drive him into a much riskier scheme: to pilot a getaway boat for four ruthless holdup men and kill them for the reward money before they can fulfill their plain intention of murdering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 25, 1950 | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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