Word: theft
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British police soon guessed that the theft was the work of Scottish nationalists. At the scene, they found a short crowbar and a wrist watch. Freshly carved on the coronation chair were the initials J.F.S., meaning possibly Justice for Scotland. Archdeacon S. J. Marriott thought that the theft was an elaborately planned job. Said he: "Early that morning I heard a crowd of drunks singing loudly outside. They might have been covering up for the noises inside." A policeman reported having questioned a man and a woman in a small, English-built Ford parked by the Abbey that night...
Small World. In Houston, Mike N. Ramirez and Gilberto deHoyes were charged with theft when the man they asked to help them start their car discovered...
...after the crime when Federal money bags were found in Peabody and Sangus. Police were probably thinking of the pea-jackets, or of the sailor knots used to tie two Brink's cashiers and three guards. They may have been thinking back 15 years to the second largest cash theft in history, when ten thugs with machine guns robbed an arptored car of $427,000 in Brooklya and escaped across Jamsica Bay in a high powered speed-boat. The money in that case was never recovered...
Clue. In Chicago, 23-year-old Harry Arnold Langham tauntingly mailed his photograph to Oklahoma City cops, who are trying to track him for forgery and car theft...
...Hands. In Manhattan, Theodore Grant, veteran of some 30 years behind bars, was charged at 91 with petty larceny. In Baton Rouge, La., Theodore Landrum, at 98, was recommended for pardon after serving half of a five-year prison stretch for theft...