Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alarm brought 100 policemen and detectives to surround the building. Two of the thieves were apprehended. One was Roy H. Sloane, onetime boy prodigy of Carnegie School of Technology and Columbia University, who was sentenced five years ago to serve ten years in Sing Sing for an automobile theft. Prodigy Sloane studied law in prison, argued his way out, has been at liberty nine weeks. ¶ In a small East Side hotel, Al Wagner, minor racketeer and dope peddler, was executed. Earlier in the day his brother Abe, head of an alcohol ring, had been fired upon...
...Angeles County Jail. Said the judge: "The jury . . . was . . . generous and sympathetic. There was abundant evidence to prove you guilty of theft in 35 instances...
...Coal & Iron Police were organized under legislative enactment of 1865, extending to railroads the privilege of employing private officers to protect property from theft, trespassing, malicious damage. Next year the act was amended to give collieries, rolling mills, furnaces the same right. Six years ago the privilege was granted to light and power companies...
Pale, pop-eyed Erik Berggreen stood at the bar of a Swedish court last week charged with robbery, to wit: the theft of a number of watches, pieces of jewelry. As the evidence was reported, Swedish travelers for the past six months on the crack Norrland Express, between Stockholm and Narvik in Norway, tingled at the thought that they had been riding on a train driven not only by a thief, but by a madman...
...Reviewing a decade of Prohibition they found: 1) Enforcement got off to a bad start which has crippled it ever since. 2) Reform organizations like the Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. abandoned all efforts to win public support by education and tolerance. 3) "Bribery, extortion, theft, conspiracy, perjury, forgery" among enforcement agents gave the 18th Amendment an irreparably bad name. 4) Without more public support Federal enforcement ? so far a failure ? was impossible. 5) Abolition of the saloon is Prohibition's one demonstrable triumph...