Word: hold-up
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...open the company safe. He was about to remove $450 to turn over to U. S. Trucking Corp.'s armored car, which was due on its collection round at any moment. Another employe dashed through the office. "Close it, Charlie! Close it quick!" he panted. "There's a hold-up outside...
...Sound, down the New Jersey coast for Popeye and its companion craft. To work straight 24-hr. shifts on the case until it was solved, 25 of the youngest detectives on the force were selected, because their faces would be less familiar to criminals. On the supposition that the hold-up men had left New York, Department of Justice agents were ready to begin working on the case under a new law which makes interstate transportation of stolen goods, worth more than $5,000, a Federal felony...
...George (''Baby Face") Nelson stayed three days in the hut of Ollie Catfish, a Chippewa, and the Federals got on his trail after he had left. In a swamp nearby, the Federals went gunning for another gangster whom they were "sure" they had surrounded. At a bank hold-up in Chicago, another member of the gang, Homer van Meter, was "identified." In another suburb three policemen overtook a car, were promptly covered by machine guns and disarmed by men who they were "positive" were members of the gang. "It was Dillinger, all right." said one. But where Desperado...
First chapter of the Dillinger career was the sordid story of a boy gone wrong. In 1924 he began with petty robbery, was identified after a grocery store hold-up at Mooresville outside of Indianapolis. For that he got a sentence of from 10 to 20 years. And the chapter ended with him in the Indiana State Penitentiary after he had proved too tough a customer to be handled in the reformatory...
...easy after the shooting is over to outline what police, bank clerks, and on-lookers should do to forestall the escape of gunmen, and to suggest that telephoning the police in the event of a hold-up should be the first thought to occur to the most inexperienced in the ways of gangsters. Likewise, from all sides comes advice concerning teletype, vault alarms, swiftness of justice, and consolidated detective agencies, yet few take seriously any suggestion to enforce strictly the limiting of machine gun sales to authorized persons...