Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although it has the usual corps of continental villains, replete with monocles, saber scars, and slouch hats, "I Am a Thief," the mystery melodrama at the Fenway, is fairly successful. The plot, which involves a clever jewelry theft, may be old, but it works, to the complete mystification of the audience. Mary Aster, as the heroine torn between two loyalties, manages to look dyspeptically emotional, and Ricardo Cortez, the suave and charming cad, smiles toothily but shrewdly at his rather capable supporting cast. The photography is frequently excellent, and portrays the swift passage of the Istanbul Express across Europe with...
...Angeles, Judge Guy F. Bush heard John LeGrand plead guilty to a charge of grand theft. One day, while the trial was going on, the prisoner's wife came to plead for her husband. "The first time I saw Mrs. LeGrand in my chambers," said Judge Bush, "I had a peculiar feeling that our future destinies were strangely intermingled." Judge Bush sentenced LeGrand to two years in jail. Four months later Judge Bush called Convict LeGrand before him, reduced his sentence to six months. On that day Mrs. LeGrand filed suit for divorce. When her divorce was granted, Judge...
With increasing fear that Yale has taken revenge for the theft of Handsome Dan, II, which occurred last year, the University Band is now making efforts to locate its big drum which has been missing since last Saturday afternoon. The two custodians of the drum are divided in their opinions of its location, one being sure that it must be safe in the South Station, the other, remembering threats by Yale men, feels that a thorough search of the Yale campus might be effective in locating the instrument...
...kidnapping and murder. Apple-cheeked Bruno saw battlefront service, was 19 when the War ended. He came through unscathed, undistinguished, but two brothers were killed. After the War he broke his mother's heart by turning out to be the bad boy of Kamenz. He served one term for theft, escaped a second by breaking jail. Twice he entered the U. S. illegally, the second time successfully. With...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was born at Kamenz, Germany, served as a machine-gunner in a Saxon regiment during the War. In 1919 he was sentenced to five years imprisonment for theft. Released in 1923, he was again arrested for theft, escaped while waiting trial. That same year he arrived in the U. S. as a stowaway on a German liner. Deported, he stowed away again on another ship later in the year. He managed to get ashore, find work as a carpenter in New Jersey and New York. He married in 1925. His Bronx neighbors knew him only for thrift...