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While he was gone, two men walked into the sheriff's house. They had no trouble. The keys to the jail were on a cabinet in the living room, where the sheriff had left them, and the front door was open-"if I lock it the lock sticks," explained the sheriff. The men calmly picked up the keys and went upstairs to the cell. "Come on, Picky Pie, let's go," one said. Without a protest, Picky Pie walked out with them. Mrs. Hatcher, asleep downstairs, heard no commotion...
Lockout. In Trenton, N.J., the state supreme court, dismissing Mrs. Lillian Brown's divorce suit, ruled that since she had changed the lock on the door and refused to let her husband in the house, she could scarcely complain that he had deserted...
...snake. " 'Tis big enough and plenty," said the saint. " 'Tis not," said the snake. "It is," said the saint. "I say it is not," said the snake, and to prove the point he crawled into the box, whereupon St. Patrick clapped down the lid and snapped the lock and that was the end of the last snake in Ireland...
Morison, who pulled off the absent-minded professor routine Monday afternoon, had put the briefcase on the roof of his car while struggling to unlock a jammed car door. Flushed by success after forcing the lock open, he drove off from Harvard Square with the briefcase still over his head. In due time it fell off, and Morison hastened to report the incident to the police...
They apparently entered the building merely by forcing open the door, which had a weak lock. The car used for the getaway was a black Buick sedan, but police were investigating the possibility that the same men were responsible for the theft of a red convertible from the Union Square garage