Word: robber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other-is-doing theory could also be applied to libel cases. He sued a retired police inspector who had arrested him and who had written a series of articles saying that he was guilty. The libel jury awarded Alfie $3,640 in damages. Using the same theory, Convicted Train Robber Goody planned to nick The People for a few thousand quid...
Early on St. Patrick's Day in 1962, an armed robber snatched $363 from the Diamond Cab Co. in Baltimore. Hearing cries of "Holdup," two cabbies trailed the gunman to 2111 Cocoa Lane and called police to the house. Mrs. Bennie Joe Hayden let them in; upstairs they found her husband undressed, in bed. One cop found a pistol and a shotgun in a toilet water tank; another found Hayden's clothes in a washing machine. Though the loot was never found, a robbery eyewitness and the pursuing cab drivers identified Hayden's clothes, which were deemed...
...biggest manhunt in New England history, bloodhounds bayed through the woods around the Bridgewater State Hospital, 25 miles south of Boston, where he had been held; police, on foot, in cars and a helicopter, searched the area for DeSalvo and the two other inmates-a wife slayer and a robber-who had fled with him. The trio had used a key they made in prison to unlock their cell doors. DeSalvo's brothers were arrested and charged with being accessories after the fact; within recent months DeSalvo had transferred $2,600 in veterans' and Social Security payments...
...charges later this month. In New York City, Stick-up-Man Michael Vignera has already pleaded guilty to a lesser robbery charge, and is now doing 7½ to 10 years in Sing Sing; the first time his sentence was 30 to 60 years. And in Sacramento, Calif., Bank Robber Carl Calvin Westover was found guilty again and sentenced last week to a 30-year term, just as he had been before...
...year 331 prisoners lingered on death rows across the country, but few if any of them are likely to join the 3,856 Americans (including 32 women) executed since 1930. The Federal Government has carried out only one execution in ten years, now has only one pending (Nebraska Bank Robber-Murderer Duane E. Pope). Says Michigan's Senator Philip A. Hart, sponsor of a bill to abolish capital punishment for federal crimes: "The death penalty is a symbol of a dying order of vengeance...