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...five-room apartment in Chicago's Trumbull Park Homes, a public housing project, a grey-haired police captain sat one night last week with two lieutenants, a squad of sergeants and a radio operator, taking walkie-talkie calls from patrolmen stationed for blocks around. The radio crackled: "Post No. 3 reporting, 9:30 p.m. All is peaceful." This reassuring word came from the street outside 10630 South Bensley, where six cops sat in a tin shack, a hole in its roof covered by an old dishpan, warming themselves at a portable stove and ignoring the shrill profanity...
...four one morning Pyle's forty armed deputies, and eighty pistol-packing highway patrolmen surrounded Short Creek and seized the town, placing it under martial...
According to a Cambridge desk sergeant, patrolmen were out on the streets last night looking for the assailant. They reported that the Belmont man was able to give only a brief description of the attacker. The police added that the man was not in a dangerous condition...
Awakening, the girl burst into screams of "Help, help," as he climbed through the window. The scream frightened the intruder back down the fire escape before patrolmen could arrive. Police said he was described as "short and thin, dressed in a dark suit," and has been reported seen before in the Radcliffe area...
When the busses pulled to a stop in front of the station, patrolmen immediately barred the doors. The band manager was taken into custody...