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...only daughter of the late Robert M. Catts, a New York and Philadelphia financier who made a fast fortune in real estate and lost it in the crash of 1929. As a rich girl, Ethel traveled in Europe; afterward she turned to whisky, husbands and psychiatrists. As a holdup artist she was just an inspired, though eminently successful, amateur-she said she never planned her jobs, pulled them only on impulse and gave the money away. But she seemed to be enjoying her career in retrospect...
...singleminded" reporter who never lets go of a story once he gets hold of it. Six years ago Mowery got hold of the case of Louis Hoffner, a dime-store clerk sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a New York City tavern owner in a holdup. Mowery heard about the case as the result of another good piece of reporting; he had just dug up evidence to help free Bertram M. Campbell, a Wall Street customer's man convicted of forgery as a result of mistaken identity (TIME, Aug. 6, 1945 et seq.). After Campbell...
...bondsman, not only made a lucrative career out of springing prostitutes for onetime Crime King "Lucky" Luciano, but turned state's evidence when the roof fell in and got off without a bruise. Barry, however, was both stupid and unlucky. He had hardly started a career as a holdup man at the age of 16 before he was nabbed by the cops. At 18 he found himself doing time in a reformatory. Last week, out on parole and 20, he swaggered out to try again...
...Mighty Debt. But the old holdup preyed on his conscience. Because of Hugh, who might have faced a murder charge, he kept silent for four decades. But when his brother died two years ago, Charley began settling his affairs. Then he told the Governor of Wyoming: "I have no incentive ... to continue this life of shame ... I am ready to pay my debt to society . . . [although Hugh and I] paid a mighty sum in remorse, tears, lonesomeness and regret." Last week, 62-year-old Charley Whitney pleaded guilty to bank robbery in a district court at Kemmerer...
Sales Trend. In Los Angeles, Albert Zubrinski's chain market was robbed of $900 by holdup men who grumbled, "Business must be bad," was robbed of $4,650 a week later by the same men who commented, "Business is picking...