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While the government totted up the high cost of such innovations, London bookies were laying odds on the daily escape total. Crowds flocked to the moors to watch search parties-and it was usually quite a show. On one manhunt, three platoons of British commandos each brought along a bagpiper. How the skirling would help catch the quarry, no one said. London newspapers printed letters from Frank Mitchell, 37, the so-called "mad axman of Broadmoor," who escaped last month and wanted it known that "I am sorry that my absence has caused certain people to think badly...
Asking Mitzi. Britain last week was in the midst of the greatest manhunt in its history. Object of the hunt was Harry Maurice Roberts, 30, who is wanted "for questioning" in connection with the slaying of three London policemen on Aug. 12. To find him, Scotland Yard has mobilized every available man, questioned Roberts' estranged wife (a Manchester stripper known as "Mitzi the Pocket Venus") and all his friends. Roberts' mug shot has appeared on the front page of nearly every edition of nearly every newspaper in the land, together with police warnings that he is armed...
Within 48 hours of the slayings, a na tionwide manhunt was launched for a blue-eyed ex-convict charged by Chicago authorities with murder and by Federal agents with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. He was identified as Richard B. Speck, 25, of Dallas, a drifter who sports a tattooed slogan on his upper left arm: "Born to raise hell...
...RUNNING MAN, not to be confused with The Third Man, Odd Man Out, The Man Between or Our Man in Havana, is another exciting Manhunt directed by Britain's Sir Carol Reed, but the trick this time is to know who is hunting whom...
Despite such devices, few culprits are picked up by police. Many firms hesitate to report a theft, perhaps fearful that the thief they catch just may be one of their own. What's more, efficiency experts say that exposing employees to the strain of a perpetual manhunt is bad for morale. There is also the bad publicity to consider. Best advice, then, for the white-collar worker, as well as for his boss down the hall, is: Keep purses in locked drawers, wallets in pockets-and hang onto your hats...