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...lost or stolen. "I can't deny I got into it to supplement my income," explains Kelley, who admits that his pay as a Gemprint director and huckster is "very substantial." But, ever the cop, Kelley contends, "I want to cripple the gem theft business." And no one, after all, ever said that crime busting should...
...gentleman's C." The early '50s were the golden age of the college prank. For example, two Harvard band members were arrested in October 1953 for staging an impromptu 3 a.m. concert on Yale's Old Campus. The most elaborate stunt may have been The Crimson's theft of the Lampoon's symbol, its beloved Ibis, in April 1953. The Crimson then donated the statue to the Soviet embassy in New York as a gift from the students of America to those of the USSR. The treasurer of the Lampoon called on Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy to investigate this trafficking...
...Spenkelink was serving a five-year sentence for armed robbery, he walked away from the minimum-security Slack Canyon Conservation Camp near Big Sur. Driving through Nebraska, he picked up a hitchhiker, Joe Szymankiewicz, 43, an Ohio parole violator who had spent 16 years behind bars for forgery, burglary, theft and other crimes. For several weeks they roamed the country, ending up on Feb. 3, 1973, in Room 4 of the Ponce de Leon Motel in Tallahassee. Next morning, a maid discovered Szymankiewicz dead in bed. He had been bludgeoned and shot twice...
...sour mood fills the "Observer," as it did some time ago when Baker discussed the advantages of a return to public hangings, with the additional suggestion that if the society went back to killing people for the crime of murder, perhaps it should again cut off hands for theft and notch the noses of incurable double parkers...
...jeopardy. In a decision that could have legal repercussions elsewhere, the Colorado Supreme Court in April tossed out indictments against two insurance companies that hired a Denver detective agency that allegedly trained employees to impersonate doctors and bribed hospital personnel to obtain medical records. The court's reasoning: theft statutes could not be used to prosecute the firms because such information is not a "thing of value...