Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police, left without any solid clues, blamed it all on "Le gang des châteaux historiques" (the Historical Castle Mob). Fifty-six châteaux have been robbed since 1946, and none of the loot recovered. French police have a wholesome respect for "le gang's" professionalism in burglary and taste in art objects. They believe that many wealthy art collectors all over the world may have unwittingly purchased the stolen stuff...
...entered, stared at the scene and cried: "What the hell's going on here?" The horizontal captives behind the desk winced and waited for shots. It took them several minutes to realize that the robbers had long since faded silently away, taking pistols, crowbar and $3,383 in loot, and that they were, beyond any doubt, making a terrible spectacle of themselves...
...myth of Jewish ownership, credited the original security owners with accrued dividends. But the myth was short-lived. Lippmann, Rosenthal soon joined the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and began trading in the expropriated securities for its own account. By war's end, the company had dispersed almost all the loot...
...night he slipped out of the jail and stole $485 worth of clothing and luggage from Burgin Bros, store; he hid the loot in the shrubbery outside the jail, sauntered back inside and locked himself up. On another expedition he stole $73 from Raycraft's Drugstore. His ambition growing, he lifted the courthouse keys from the sheriff's pocket, made a nocturnal visit to the vault containing the records of his burglary case. Though he failed to open it, he eased the sting of defeat by swiping $23 from the sheriff's desk...
...with stealth. He soon became as good a pickpocket as the pickpockets. On busy days, like those in the annual flower-viewing season, when the public wandered among spring blossoms, careless of material treasures, Utsugi handled minor felonies by simply picking the pockets of the thieves and returning the loot unnoticed to the pockets of the victims...