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...Brattle Street, and George Milanco, 24, of 20 Oxford Street were walking through the Cambridge Common when two men attacked them from behind. Weaver's suit coat was pulled over his head. He shouted, he was knocked to the ground by the assailants. When he get up his wallet was missing, and the men had gone...
...complained that he could see nothing. An obliging stranger threw an arm around his shoulder, pointed up-and sure enough, Dario thought he discerned a white globelike shape floating by. When his gaze returned earthward, he saw the stranger disappearing around the corner. Dario slapped the pocket where his wallet had been and began to yell: "Policia, policia...
Necessary Proof. In Rio de Janeiro, Carlos dos Santos, arrested during a routine roundup of pickpockets, was about to be released when the station detective rearrested him because he discovered that his wallet had been pinched during the questioning...
Since the pair were junketing through Spain with two other Congressmen and Maine's G.O.P. Senator Owen Brewster, they were able to borrow pants without trouble. But the incident set up a great and indignant gobbling: Keogh had been carrying the group's expense money in his wallet. It disturbed the Spanish police terribly also, since some of the Americanos were scheduled to talk to Generalissimo Franco in Madrid...
Through luck, industry, and the process of squeezing assorted stool pigeons until they quacked like ducks, the Spanish cops rounded up five train robbers, the pants (Congressman Richards' still had a rabbit's foot in one pocket). Congressman Keogh's wallet and $3,800. They announced, not without a flicker of national pride, that the theft had been accomplished at the town of Las Casetas with a fishing pole. The Congressmen accepted their belongings gratefully. At week's end the Generalissimo received the visitors with the air of a man who runs in train robbers...