Word: stickups
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...taxi garage. Drivers will be encouraged to carry only about $5 in change and cab riders educated to have exact-or near-exact -amounts of money available to pay for their rides. Thus, according to proponents of the scheme, holdup men will soon realize that a cab stickup will net them only a few dollars at best, and begin losing interest in taxis...
Texas law sets a minimum jail term for robbery by assault, but no maximum. That legal quirk gave a Dallas jury last week an opportunity to indulge its draconian fantasies. The panel found Joseph Sills guilty of a $73.10 stickup. It was roughly his 20th conviction. Dallas has been roiled by repeated banditry, and the prosecutor touted the deterrent value of long prison terms. So the jury sentenced Sills to 1,000 years...
...aging leader of a ragtag bunch of bandits who ride through the Southwest trying to scrape together an honorably illegal living. The money from previous jobs has just about run out, and the bunch is being trailed by a group of murderous bounty hunters. After an unsuccessful stickup in which two of them are killed, the rest light out for Mexico, with the bounty hunters hard on their trail, looking to make what Bishop calls "one good score...
Despite all precautions, bankers believe that their institutions will remain a favorite robbery target because they can be relatively easy and safe to hold up. In Washington, one stickup man admitted that he switched to robbing banks because holding up liquor stores "got to be too dangerous...
After a four-year hitch in the Navy, he found a job at a gas station in Los Angeles in 1938. When he was alone in the station one night, a stickup man shoved a gun in his back, then took $12 from the till. The police answered Reddin's call in what seemed no more than seconds, capturing the holdup man. Impressed, Reddin began asking questions, discovering that a rookie cop commanded $170 a month-$40 more than he was making. That was all he needed to know. In 1941 he became a cop (today he makes...