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...moments, islanders still look for aid to William's great ancestor Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. Rollo, it is said, was so just and severe a prince that during his early loth Century reign a farmer could leave a plow in an open field with no fear of theft...
Clipped. In Superior, Wis., Harry Griffin pleaded guilty to theft, explained that he thought the new price of $1 for a haircut must include the hair clippers...
...perpetrated one of the biggest swindles in their country's history (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947), last week got their comeuppance. In Johannesburg, horse-racing Norbert Stephen Erleigh, 46, and his rude, crude ex-partner, Joseph Milne, 53, were convicted on a combined total of 63 fraud and theft counts. The court said that their New Union Goldfields, Ltd., which had once controlled 160 companies valued at some ?30 million, "was, in reality, a gambling house...
Harold E. Perry, 45, former employee of the Massachusetts Archives Division, yesterday pleaded guilty in East Cambridge District Court to the theft of a rare book, Jonathan Swift's "Cadenus and Vanessa," from Houghton Library...
Diet. In Tulsa, Okla., Dr. J.H. Taylor reported the theft from his home of five dozen fresh eggs and three bottles of vitamin tablets...