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When rescue crews finally dragged the car from the river, a suitcase containing expensive clothing was discovered missing. Investigations revealed that the car had been in the water no longer than an hour, and the night watchman at Nowell Boat House said he had seen the car on the embankment...
...Cambridge patrolmen closed in on Leverett J-43 shortly before 2 a.m. this morning in answer to a frantic call from the building's night watchman. Eight invading "townies" had threatened an occupant of the room, and had been "tearing it apart" for nearly an hour, he reported later...
...object of a real attack by surprise." Western diplomats were also slow to realize how deep and serious was the revulsion in Greece. The Greek government went so far as to charge that the bombing that touched off the affair was engineered by the Turks themselves, arrested the Turkish watchman of the Salonika consulate as the alleged fuse lighter...
...last week at the bleach factory opposite Vourlon, a watchman's 15-year-old daughter spotted four strangers on the premises, where she lives with her parents. "What are you doing?" she asked. "We're policemen," they answered, "and we just went inside to take a shower." At least part of the answer was true: calm as could be, the four had indeed been washing in the factory shower room. What they didn't tell the girl was that, along with 23 companions, they had entered the shower room through a 55-ft.-long tunnel, dug under...
...fire turned the merry partnership to ashes. Their Broadway Theatre Comique burned to the ground in the winter of 1884. Harrigan accused Hart's brother-in-law of quitting his night watchman's post early. Hart upbraided Harrigan because Harrigan's father had allowed their $30,000 fire-insurance policy to lapse...