Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Empathy. In North Hollywood, Liquor Store Owner Sidney Ravid reported to police that when he asked a holdup man to be lenient because he was just starting in business, the bandit replied, "I'm just starting in business too," took...
Expert Witness. In Buffalo, when neither of two holdup victims could identify the robber, Paul J. Kozma, 18, identified the victims, got a five-to-seven-year jail sentence...
Shortchanged. In Miami, three nights after he robbed Mack's Liquor Store of $46, a holdup man returned, pointed a pistol at Proprietor Herman Mack, told him: "I read in the papers where I got $600 ... I came back for the rest," made off with...
Reporter McCormick went to see Galloway, 28, a Negro who had already served eight years of a life term as an accomplice in the holdup-slaying of a Detroit housewife. McCormick listened to Galloway's story, then for five weeks checked the facts himself. He dug up witnesses who said that at the time of the murder, Galloway was working at his job as a porter and handyman in a Detroit restaurant. An anonymous phone tip led him to another witness, who admitted he was at the scene of the murder and that Galloway was not involved. Finally...
...than 50 convicts who said they were innocent, but that not a one had ever convinced him. The warden agreed, but added: "There's one man in prison who has convinced me he's innocent. He's Willie Galloway, at Ionia [prison] doing life for a holdup...