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Three overcoats, five wallets, a watch valued at $100, and $150 in cash and convertible checks were among the loot taken last night by an ingenious thief who forced his way into the dressing rooms of five Harvard students who were rehearsing for a coming production at the Repertory Theatre...
...TIME, Dec. 10 you tell a very interesting story of the attempt to loot the Abraham Lincoln Life Insurance Co., of Springfield, Ill. You mention the name of the company once but do not name the city of its location; viz., Springfield, Ill. You refer to it later as "Lincoln Life" and several times as "Lincoln." The Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., of Fort Wayne, Ind., which I organized and of which I have always been the head, has been in business 29 years, and now is 18th in the entire U. S. for volume of insurance in force. . . . Strong...
...Charles Ponzi all that swindler knew. Joe Baiata served five years in jail for helping himself to $200,000 in a Massachusetts bank, and be fore that he helped wreck a big Buffalo insurance company. In his earlier days his favorite method was first to found a bank, then loot...
...loot--the stuff that was stolen last week when the big Grant jewelry store was robbed. Watches and diamonds--nearly a sackful. He'll get $200 reward...
...such, Commissioner O'Ryan personally supervised the ensuing robber hunt. Interborough bridges were scrupulously policed, suspicious-looking autoists halted and frisked for guns or loot. Up from Floyd Bennett Field soared two police planes to scout up the Sound, down the New Jersey coast for Popeye and its companion craft. To work straight 24-hr. shifts on the case until it was solved, 25 of the youngest detectives on the force were selected, because their faces would be less familiar to criminals. On the supposition that the hold-up men had left New York, Department of Justice agents were ready...