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...cashier's indictment for theft was not pressed. Last week he had a new job (washing cars in a Newark garage), but his wife was back in bed again. There was virtually no cortisone to be found, at any price, for her treatment...
When one Beatrice Davis denied the theft of $200 from a Charleston, S.C. restaurant last week, Magistrate Gene Herron fell back on a medieval judicial device. He called in the jailer, ordered him and Beatrice to extend their forefingers, placed a Bible on their outstretched fingers. As it balanced there, he intoned...
Ever since some unspeakably degraded character stole his hunting dog, Arkansas' 81-year-old State Senator William Abington has conducted a vociferous and indignant legislative crusade-to make dog theft a felony (instead of a mere misdemeanor) within the borders of the "wonder state." When Senator Abington's "houn'-dawg bill" was put to a vote last week, his fellow legislators were ready...
...theft of the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey...
...students, Howard L. Kastel '54 and Robert Maier '54, members of the Massachusetts Hall basketball team, reported the theft of $19 at 10 p.m. last night, stating that they thought many other wallets had also been rified. Requirement of an athletic participation card for admission to the building led to the assumption that the culprit was a student...