Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Orange marks from the smoke shell, which Thalhofer pushed out the door, remained in the snow in the back yard, in addition to remains of the bomb...
Business was rudely interrupted however by the explosion of the smoke bomb and the sight of three men rushing headlong for the back "time-clock" door of the establishment...
Then something told Thalhofer that further efforts might not be healthy he backtracked into the Coop, disposing of the second smoke bomb, which had been left at the back door to aid in the escape...
Business seemed to slow up on the store, while people spent time marveling over the neatness and timing of the robbery. Coop employee Don Courtney of Medford, who was in the cashiers' cage when the thief entered, said he had "heard a sound like a shot" when the smoke bomb exploded...
Robert A. Levine '50 was standing in front of the cage waiting to cash a check when he was distracted by the smoke bomb. "By the time I turned around, all I could see was the back of the man running down the book aisle," Levine said...