Word: robber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...robber made his thefts early in the morning, Toohy said, "because the laws are harder on criminals who act during the night...
Captain Matthew J. Toohy of the University Police said last night that the robber is very likely the same burglar who earlier in the year raided rooms in Dunster and Leverett Houses and Hastings Hall. All four of these cases took place in unlocked rooms early in the morning, and involved the loss of watches and money...
Yesterday's robbery followed a month-long lull in the robber's activities around the University. Toohy said last month during this lull that the thief was scared, but probably would return because of "unusual success" in his past thefts. There is little evidence concerning the identity of the criminal, he added...
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...Round Rock.Texas (pop. 1,400) would probably never have had a jail if Sam Bass, the train robber, had not come to town on July 19, 1878 to hold up the Williamson County Bank. "Sam Bass," in the words of a mournful cowboy ballad, "was born in Indiana, it was his native home, and at the age of seventeen he first began to roam; he come way out to Texas a cowboy fur to be, and a kinder-hearted feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock...