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...overall decline was due to a decrease in the far larger number of property-oriented crimes: robbery, burglary, larceny and auto theft. There is some question as to whether police efforts have been as important to that trend as the increasing tendency to resort to such individual defensive tactics as private alarm systems and auto steering-wheel locks...
Robert Tonis, chief of University police, said yesterday that the investigation of the theft was turned over to the Cambridge police shortly after the robbery occurred...
Sergeant James A. Roscoe, the Cambridge police detective in charge of the case, said yesterday that he had notified all hospitals in the Boston area shortly after the theft to look out for a youth with a hand wound, but that no such youth has been identified...
When police arrived at the museum following the theft, blood, skin, and fingerprints were found on the coin display case, and three buttons from the torn shirt were discovered on the floor...
...report, submitted by Sergeant Alfred J. Doherty, the University policeman who investigated the theft, stated that the robbery was first detected by two museum visitors who saw one of the youths ripping his shirt off in front of the display case of coins. The report said that the youth, in withdrawing the coins from the plexiglass case, had apparently cut open his hand and was using his shirt to stop the bleeding...