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...Reno, lacking 50? of the $10 he needed to bail out his wife, who was jailed on a drunkenness charge, Marvin Wheeler light-fingered some brass plumbing fixtures from the police station, sold them to get the half dollar and freed his wife, was jailed himself for petty theft, was still locked up three days later when his wife was jugged again for drunkenness...
Accepting the nomination, Candidate Austin got right to work. Said he, in words that ex-Candidate Paschen never dared use: "The people of Illinois have been shocked by the greatest theft of their money in state history by public officials. The people have yet to receive an explanation of how these great crimes could have occurred without the knowledge of the governor...
Streamlined Service. Nino Cottone's death was one more indication of an amazing change in Sicily. For more than a century any Sicilian who paid "protection" to the Mafia was virtually immune from theft or attack. In those days the murder of a Mafia member like Nino meant only one thing-he had betrayed the organization. Lately, however, the once unquestioned authority of the Mafia has been challenged by a rival syndicate that calls itself Anonima Delitte-Crime Incorporated. In the past two years Crime Inc. has murdered 22 Mafia men. Result: a sharp drop in public faith...
...time Kravitz was awaiting trial for misappropriating Government property and making a false statement in connection with the case. Chotiner eventually discussed the charges with an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, and they reached a prosecution-defense agreement: Kravitz' appeal from a guilty verdict on the theft charge was dropped, and the U.S. dropped the false statement charge. Kravitz' sentence: a fine of $5,000. Choti-ner's total...
...Cook nursed a Technicolored dream: to stop the presses for a Page One beat. One night last week-as he later told the story-an anonymous phone call promised the big chance. The caller tipped him to "the biggest robbery pulled since the Brink's job"-the theft of $200,000 from a safe in Houston, some 200 miles to the east. The voice even gave Cook the address and automobile license number of the robber...