Word: larcenist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard Loeb died after being slashed 56 times with a razor by another convict in a prison washroom at the Illinois Penitentiary at Stateville. Held for murder, Prisoner James Day, a bantamweight larcenist of 23, swore he had killed in self-defense, told as foul a tale as has ever come over prison walls. He said that Loeb was an autocrat behind bars. As head of the prison school, he could parcel out soft jobs to fellow inmates. He ate in his cell and, by transferring sums from their well-stocked bank accounts, he and Leopold could get guards...
...many a petty larcenist as well as on many a bold manipulator has been fixed the title: "Wolf of Wall Street." Last week one of the Street's oldest wolves, one who has prowled more than 30 years, was again in trouble...