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Finally getting word of the Bowmans' plight, San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher last March sent a long letter to Police Chief Thomas Cahill demanding action. Cahill assigned Inspector Nathaniel Pedrini to the case-and things began to change. Pedrini attached a tape recorder to the telephone to gather evidence, persuaded the telephone company to tap the line until midnight and carefully check every call. When the police finally traced the culprits, the tap led to 22-year-old Steven Van Otten and 19-year-old Barry Van Otten, the sons of a policeman in suburban Daly City...
...Napa, Calif., two sheriff's deputies, a judge and the mother and mother-in-law of Paroled Murderer Frank Pedrini waited, armed and in mortal fear of Pedrini, a 46-year-old badman, who was on the rampage again. Pedrini did his first prison stretch for armed robbery at the age of 21. He was paroled in 1935. Three months later, with another paroled convict, he kicked and beat a Napa gas-station operator to death; then, after fighting a gun battle with Napa County deputies, he blazed a trail of kidnapings and holdups from Los Angeles to Stockton...
...even though he had escaped from Folsom Prison during his term, and committed new crimes before being caught, and even though his own mother, afraid of her son, pleaded against his release-Pedrini was paroled. Last month, after pistol-whipping and robbing another gas-station operator, Pedrini began running wild in neighboring Sonora County...
Chairman Walter A. Gordon of California's Adult Authority explained why Pedrini had been paroled. "Sometimes you judge wrongly. You can't tell that a man'll go sour like Pedrini. But murderers have our best parole records, and we take into consideration the best measurements of the human mind now available. I don't wish to minimize the fear and apprehension of those whose lives have been threatened . . . but men who make such threats under the heat and strain of a courtroom rarely carry them out." Pedrini's potential victims could only hope...
Your account of the founding of A. P. Giannini's Bank of Italy in that remodeled San Francisco saloon [TIME, April 15] has one mistake. The assistant cashier, Armando Pedrini, was not the saloon's bartender. Armando Pedrini, graduate of the Royal Technical Institute of Bologna, was hired away from the Columbus Savings & Loan Society where he was a teller. Later, after he had hit the top in A. P.'s organization (president of National Bankitaly Co., Bankitaly Co. America, Corp. of America), he joined up with the Elisha Walker group which tried to take over Transamerica...