Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article on [the theft of six art masterworks from the Toronto Art Gallery -Sept. 28], you say "the thieves . . . dodged from room to room while Pinkerton guards made their final rounds before closing...
Silenced. In Madera, Calif., Deputy Sheriff Salvador Vizcarra had to drive to headquarters to report the theft of his police cruiser's radio microphone...
...Under Britain's 1957 Homicide Act, the only murders for which the death penalty is prescribed or permitted are those committed 1) with firearms or explosives, 2) against police or prison officers, 3) in resisting arrest or escaping from custody, 4) in furtherance of theft, or 5) for murder committed a second or subsequent time...
History for Support. Will the paintings be found? History is full of successful art thefts. A Louvre workman named Vincenzo Peruggia carted away the $1,000,000 Mona Lisa in broad daylight by stripping it from its frame and tucking it under his shirt; he was caught two years later only because he tried to sell it to an honest Florence art dealer. Three centuries earlier, the Duke of Modena became so enraptured with Correggio's Virgin with St. Magdalen and St. Lucy that he had it stolen from the church of Albinea, and it has never been found...
Meanwhile ... In Monza, Italy, Virginio Bonfanti, arrested as a theft suspect while watching a Western in a movie house, insisted on staying to see the end of the movie, returned to see the film again when released on bail...