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Double Role. In Los Angeles, visiting city court. Patrolman Paul B. Le Page spotted a familiar face, collared Juror Garrison Harris, whose own trial for grand theft was scheduled for the following week...
Necessity. In Elyria, Ohio, Crawford Casebolt, charged with auto theft, explained that he needed a car to report to authorities in Tennessee where he is on parole for auto theft...
...cops quickly decided that their suspicions had been justified: Franks had been out of the Huntsville State Prison less than three weeks, after serving 17 months for car theft. Where did he get the green hardtop? Bought it, said Franks, with ill-concealed, sassy satisfaction. Then he proved it: he not only had a legitimate bill of sale but deposit slips showing that he had $13,000 in a Houston bank. Where did he get the money? It was, he said happily, a gift...
Police lost the vehicle after recovering it following an earlier theft. The bicycle originally disappeared from the Adams House courtyard on May 3, Runquist said...
...certain amount of evaporation occurs in these reservoirs, but not to the extent of 2,000 gallons a month or so, thought the owners of the Hazebrouck distillery in northern France. Yet their vats were guarded by special police, surrounded by high walls, and there seemed no opportunity for theft. Was there a leak? The Hazebrouck distillers drained off their largest vat. Peering into the darkness, workmen spied a small, shining object and uncovered the end of a metal tube. The tube led them under the distillery walls, 100 yds. along a ditch, across a meadow, into a garage...