Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contempt of Court. In Troy, N.Y., Police Justice Thomas O'Connor complained that within the last month ten traffic violators had paid their fines with bad checks. In Knoxville, Tenn., Jimmy Doyle was charged with the theft of a raincoat, an overcoat, a shotgun and an $8 check from his lawyer's office...
...latest theft occurred Wednesday night while Briggs residents were having supper. When the robbery was discovered, Mrs. Garfield rang the fire alarm and summoned the 96 residents downstairs, where they were all searched in vain...
...suspicion for this latest theft rested on members of the Briggs dormitory, residents said, since no one else was allowed upstairs at this time...
Grand Larceny. In St. Thomas, Ont., John Panther, proprietor of a monument works, reported the theft of a 200-lb. granite tombstone. In Sardis, Ga., the thieves who made off with $1,200 worth of furnishings from the Sardis Baptist church were nabbed by police when they leaded back to the church, with a truck, to pick up the piano...
...politics in New York, Kansas City, Los Angeles and New Orleans. Crime commissions speculated feverishly that he owned gambling houses and nightclubs from Florida to California, controlled race wires across the nation, ran the baleful Unione Siciliana (i.e., the U.S. Mafia) and financed everything from narcotics smuggling to jewel theft...