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...admitted they could only hope for a "snout" -someone who might be tempted into talking by an insurance company reward of $28,000. They admitted, too, to a touch of regret over the new, vice-free state of London's streets. "Those girls always helped us," confided one Yardman. "They were our eyes and ears when we weren't around. This haul couldn't have been made in the bad old days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Treasure Hunt | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Goaded by protests from abroad and a telegram from Secretary of State Dulles, Alabama's Governor James E. Folsom called to his office Negro Yardman Jimmie Wilson, 55, condemned to die by an all-white jury for robbing a white widow of $1.95 (TIME, Sept. 1), commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Fabian of the Yard, by Robert Fabian. A brilliant former Scotland Yardman tells about his most interesting cases (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECENT & READABLE | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

Fabian of the Yard, by Robert Fabian. A brilliant former Scotland Yardman tells about his most interesting cases (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 31, 1953 | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

Fabian of the Yard, by Robert Fabian. A brilliant former Scotland Yardman tells about his most interesting cases (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 24, 1953 | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

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