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Over the Wall. By his own accounts, Chessman started pilfering and stealing cars for joyrides back in his early teens. But his first serious run-in with the law came when he was arrested at 16 on a charge of auto theft. Taken to Los Angeles' juvenile hall for a medical examination, he scrambled through a window, jumped into a truck, drove it up to the wall surrounding the place, climbed atop the truck and escaped over the wall. Arrested at 3:30 a.m. next day while looting a drugstore (inexplicably Chessman piled all the cigars in the middle...
...months after his second release from Preston, 18-year-old Caryl Chessman landed in the county jail on another auto-theft charge. With two stays in Preston already on his record, he faced a term in San Quentin. But he summoned his talent with words, wrote a long essay declaring that he was filled with "a sense of repulsion against all things criminal, including myself for having become ensnared in its brutal grip during my formative years." An impressed Superior Court judge put young Chessman on probation...
...withdrawals. Haderer slipped up on the slips. When Walston decided this year to audit its employees' trading accounts independent of the general audit, it found cards in Haderer's account that had no corresponding slips. An old-fashioned check of Haderer's account uncovered the theft...
...largely caused by corporate neglect of employees' needs and morale and by poor management in general. The growing decentralization of U.S. business, he argues, has left too many top executives concerned only with profit-and-loss figures to the detriment of employee relations. Jaspan acknowledges that many thefts are hard to eliminate because of employees' money difficulties or personality problems (e.g., the unattractive sales clerk who stole for a trip to Bermuda to find romance). But he also points to the need for management to pay higher wages in some cases, make sure that an employee gets recognition...
What Big Teeth! In Rome, when police took his illegally long knife from him, Auto-Theft Suspect Rodolfo Pasquarelli explained: "It's a present for my old grandmother...