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University Police Chief Matthew Toohey yesterday linked a theft of over $100 in cash and valuables from Dunster House with similar jobs reported several weeks ago at Leverett and Hastings Houses. "Whoever it is, he has been having a great time of it," Toohey said...
Home Place. In Salem, Ore., released after serving a term for auto theft, Joseph Trapp was arrested as he drove by the state prison "to see what the pen looks like from the outside," admitted that he had stolen the car, explained: "I would have been arrested for vagrancy anyhow...
Before the end of World War II, the average French schoolchild would have read something like this: "Ever since 1871, the German Kaiserreich, founded through blood and iron and the theft of Alsace-Lorraine . . . has forced upon Europe a new law-the law of brute force...
...crime is stealing a 4 by 6 inch rectangular sheet of white metal marked "U.S. Mail Schedule." His punishment for "tampering with the mails" can be a $1,000 fine or three years in prison. His last theft--the thinrd in as many weeks--provoked Tutor Cheever to post a terse warning of "a severe punishment' for the offender...
...hogs (12 out of 26 million), one-third of its sheep. In the famine that followed (1931-33), millions more peasants died of hunger; and millions of those who remained were driven into kolkhozes (collective farms), subjected to the law of Aug. 7, 1932: "Death by shooting for any theft from the sacred and inviolable property of the kolkhoz...