Word: safe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article titled "I Was King Of The Safecrackers," the literary yegg gives a gripping account of how he, at the head of the most picturesque mob this side of Sherwood Forest, "cracked the safe at Harvard University...
...didn't want to leave without making expenses some way," His Majesty explains," so I wandered over to Cambridge one afternoon. There were a lot of students up in front of an office . . . paying fees and depositing valuables for safe-keeping, and I got a good look at the safe. . . I figured I could almost hit it with a can opener...
...safecrackers hung around for a week, can openers in their pockets, "carrying books and trying to look like graduate students." Finally, late one night they eluded the Yard Cop ("a frosty character who didn't even pack a rod"), jimmied open a cellar window, went in and blew the safe, escaping undetected with the loot--"some $100,000 worth...
John Connelly, dean of Yard cops, emeritus, is unable to recall the spectacular crime described in the "King's" autobiography. Within Connelly's memory, which stretches over 40 years of Harvard history, there has been only one safe burglarized in the University, and that was on registration day in September, 1918. "An amateurish job at that," says John...
...When the Bursar's Office was opened Tuesday morning, it was found that it had been entered by thieves during the night and the small safe in which the petty, cash was kept had been blown open. Owing to the fact that practically all of the money taken in during the day in tuition fees was, according to the custom, deposited in the bank before night, the thieves got only $378.67 in cash, plus $300 worth of Liberty Bonds...