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...terms of market value, an estimated $2,000,000, the theft was the most sensational since the Louvre's Mona Lisa was stolen just 50 years ago (by an Italian bent on repatriating it). Aix, where Cezanne had lived for much of his life, had theoretically taken every precaution. Four searchlights kept the outside of the museum lighted up all night. At 12 o'clock on the night it happened, the policeman on guard assured Curator Jacqueline Martial-Salme that "everything is all right." and Mme. Martial-Salme herself made an inspection of the museum's three...
...when they boarded the plane in Phoenix, an hour earlier, One was Leon Bearden, 38, an unemployed auto salesman from Coolidge, Ariz. The other was his tousle-haired son, Cody, 16. The elder Bearden had a 20-year criminal record, had served prison terms for robbery, forgery and grand theft. In 1955 he spent a month in a Phoenix mental hospital. A chronic malcontent, Leon Bearden nursed a large grudge against the U.S. He and his son, he said, just wanted to go to Cuba and renounce their American citizenship. Lacking the air fare, they had decided to commandeer...
...intermediaries, either to a collector who will keep the secret, or back to the owner or the insurance company. But with all the news of high prices at art auctions and of recent art burglaries all over, a lot of crooks of the wrong kind are getting into art theft. Last week the police were looking for the vandalous and amateur burglar or burglars who jimmied the front door of the house of Pittsburgh's famed art buyer, Steelman G. David Thompson, and ransacked his collection...
Thompson, crushed that while going out for the evening he had forgotten to turn on his elaborate burglar alarm, took the crudity of the theft to mean that no professional burglar had been at work. Only a fat reward, with no questions to be asked, he decided, might bring back the loot, and he at once offered...
...Further, they are rumor carriers, trouble carriers, weapons carriers, narcotic carriers and sometimes disease carriers. They are promiscuous, truant and violent. They participate in petty theft, have out-of-wedlock pregnancies, and use alcohol and narcotics excessively...