Word: holdup
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Letter of the Law. In San Diego, cornered two days after he took $6 and a $3,000 station wagon from a motel garage, Ex-Convict Conrad Hansen amiably handed over his toy pistol to police, explained that he had used it in the holdup because ex-convicts are not allowed to carry real guns...
Caseworker. In Detroit, police looked for the holdup man who took $8 and a wristwatch from Cab Driver Edward Grzynowicz, wavered, returned the loot plus 50? from his own pocket, explained: "It's for cigarettes and coffee; you look nervous and probably need...
...little man entered the coffeeshop, crowded with delegates to the Pacific Logging Congress, and shouted, "This is a holdup!" No one, least of all the suave staff, paid any attention. Then the bandit kicked over a chair and shouted again: "Don't anyone move!" A few people turned to look in well-bred distaste, then went back to their eating. It was too much for the little man. Waving his pistol desperately in the air, he fired a single embarrassed shot into the ceiling...
...Instruments of defense: eight Smith & Wesson .38 pistols strategically sited behind the counter, one large shotgun-and long, lean Storekeeper Pinney, 57, who never loosed a lethal bullet during his three years on the El Paso police force, but has made up for it since. His record in nine holdups since 1940: three holdup men dead, eight wounded. None got a dime...
...most celebrated of Neal's predecessors was Joe Hillstrom, writer of ballads and doughty organizer of Utah copper unions for the I.W.W. before World War I. Joe Hillstrom was convicted of murdering a grocer in a holdup, but the comrades of his union insisted to the end that he was framed...