Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just about dinnertime, on May 11, 1941, a garment worker named Santo Caminito was picked up by New York police for the holdup-murder of Coney Island Merchant Murray Hameroff. Although Caminito had never been arrested before, the cops were sure they had their man. They set out to get a confession-and they...
Himself a longtime newsman (Philadelphia Record, New York Post), Author Grafton has found no startling truths about big crime-his plot in the end becomes downright hokum-but he offers many fascinating insights: how it feels before a holdup, the psychology of crap shooting, the relaxed domesticity enjoyed by the off-duty criminal. He can also be quietly amusing, as when he compares a detective's carefully indirect questions about a robbery ("I hear some pals stopped in to see you last night") to a modern poet who must find "some oblique and more beautiful way of indicating what...
Deficit Financing. In Valparaiso, Ind., sentenced to ten years for robbing a bank of $4,326, Edwin L. Fogle, 21, explained that he needed the money to make restitution for money he had stolen in a Milwaukee holdup...
...When he wrote that Cincinnati's Longview Hospital was short of wheelchairs, 18 were quickly provided. Another time, he told about the hard time a family was having after the breadwinner was sent to prison for stealing a factory payroll. Reading "Cincinnatus," the factory owner called the holdup man's wife, hired her at $20 a week, and told her to earn it by staying home to care for her children...
...More Try. In Seattle, Leon Hubert Harent, 80, a stoop-shouldered invalid barely able to walk, handed a post office clerk a holdup note demanding $1,000, was arrested on the spot, admitted that he had been in prison for robberies almost continuously since 1894, added sadly: "I'm not very handy at anything; I've never been much of a success...