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...Goods. In Portland, Ore.,.Policewoman Florence Findley released a suspected shop lifter for lack of evidence, discovered that her wallet and badge had been stolen...
Virtuoso. In San Pedro, Calif., police hunted the fly fisherman who had made a cast into L. M. White's motel room and flicked out his wallet...
...always scrupulously correct when white folks were around. But when with his own people, he liked to whoop it up. Wherever he went, he was followed by cronies-who admired him and split up what money there was in his wallet if it was lying around handy. Joe didn't mind. He never quibbled about a few hundred dollars; he never ducked an opponent. He has defended his title 25 times (more than any champion before him) and scored 22 knockouts...
When he was quizzed during the Seabury investigations of 1931 he hauled out a wallet as big as a horse's nosebag and extracted his father-in-law's collar button and a wad of bank books which accounted for every aspect of his financial affairs...
Last November 21-year-old Walter John Cross, a hard-up truck driver, strangled a crippled London watchmaker and snatched his wallet. Three months later Cross was hanged on the gallows of Pentonville Penitentiary. He may have been the last man who will ever be executed in Britain for murder...