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...branch on East Broadway in Tucson has only four tellers' windows. But it is the Tucson cash center for the First National Bank of Arizona, the state's second largest bank. Nearby branches holding more cash than their prescribed limits send the surplus there, and any enterprising robber could have learned the branch's role...
Nearly two decades after he and some chums relieved the Glasgow-to-London mail train of $7.3 million in 1963, Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs, 51, left his Rio de Janeiro beach-front apartment for a local barbecue-and-beer hall. Before he had time to finish his first drink, two men wrestled him out the front door and into the back of a waiting Volkswagen bus. It took less than a minute...
Correspondent David Jackson awoke early one morning in his Chicago apartment to find a robber pointing a gun at him. The man took $5 and fled. Says Jackson: "Despite all the stories I had done about truly violent crimes, I was still unprepared for the clammy, hand-trembling fear that comes with being a victim." After a neighbor was brutally murdered in his Manhattan apartment building, Correspondent Robert Geline agreed to assist in the investigation. He was hypnotized by police in order to help him recall details of the crime. Says Geline sadly: "Eight months later the murder remains unsolved...
Even if you are carrying a gun or a can of Mace, advise police officials, don't try to use them. By the time you have reached for your pocket, an armed robber will have had time to kill you. For much the same reason, do not attempt to use karate or judo against the mugger. Even expert fighters are not skilled enough to disarm a mugger unless the element of surprise is on their side. Admits Gerry Armstrong, 31, of Miramar, Fla., a martial-arts instructor with 19 years of experience: "If someone pulls a gun and tells...
...Instead, tell him in advance what you plan to do and then move slowly. Always carry some cash with you. If your pockets are empty, some muggers will turn violent out of sheer frustration. Says Detective Ray Southerland of the Dade County public safety department: "Never give an armed robber the excuse he is looking for to work you over...