Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arms & the Man. In Johannesburg, South Africa, when seven armed holdup men entered his store, Grocer James Christopher started bombarding the bandits with two-pound cans of lemon drops, routed them after scoring six direct hits...
Expert Witness. In Los Angeles, when a holdup man handcuffed Tailor Manuel Hassel and walked off with three pairs of trousers, three pairs of socks and $60 in cash, Hassel refused to panic, later supplied police with the bandit's weight, coat size, waist measurement, shoe and sock sizes...
...illegitimate children behind and took to the hills. Two weeks later he decided to give himself up for trial. "I am innocent!" he shouted in court; he had been miles away at the time of the murder, loading a wagon with bootleg booze. But a trio of confessed holdup men swore that he had been their accomplice. Carlo's nickname was against him; so was the law, which in Italy holds that the accused is guilty until he proves his innocence. Carlo went to prison for life...
...Third Man. A year later one of the three holdup men who had gone to jail with Carlo confessed to the prison chaplain that Carlo had been framed. By doing this, one of the three had got a lighter sentence. "Why haven't you said so before?" asked the chaplain. "I was afraid I would be shot," the man said. Under the seal of the confessional, the priest could not repeat the information, but when the man died the priest wrote to Rome about it. Six months later an official from the public prosecutor's called...
Self-Employed. In Madison, Wis., pleading guilty to a $353 bank holdup, Frederick L. Keller, 18, told the court that he needed the money to convince his probation officer that he was earning a living...