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...reporters were told how two uniformed radio car patrolmen, Joseph Mc-Clellan and Donald Shea, had spotted Willie tinkering with the battery of a 1951 Chevrolet on a street close to the station. "Hey," Shea recalled saying, "that looks like Willie the Actor." Turning, McClellan had answered: "Don, I think you're right." When braced, Willie had naturally denied his identity. But the two coppers, the commissioner delightedly made clear, had not been fooled...
...Shea drove back to the station and got Third-Grade Detective Louis Weiner. Mc-Clellan kept watch. And in a few minutes the three closed in again and seized the glittering prize. "The best collar in recent years," said the commissioner. Beaming, the commissioner dramatically promoted both Shea and McClellan to first-grade detective with a $1,000-a-year raise...
...disconcerting truth. A 24-year-old pants salesman named Arnold Schuster had recognized Willie while riding on the subway, had trailed him to a gasoline station, where the bank robber got a battery for his stalled automobile, and had then gone up to the radio car in which Policemen Shea and McClellan were lounging...
...opinion the consumer who patronizes [one] is a damned fool because he usually makes a bad investment, does not get his money's worth and seriously damages the legitimate and traditional American economy upon which the discount house is an unwarranted and unjustifiable parasite. J. J. SHEA Dallas...
Making up the Crimson's first five firers are Jim Smith, Frank Sweet, John Shea, Paul Baumgartner, and George Ames...