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...unveiling on the Stanford campus it was captured by California and carried off to Berkeley. Many years later, when it was beng removed from the vault of an Oakland bank, it was seized by a group known as the immortal six and brought back to the Farm. Another theft returned it to Berkeley until 1930, when 21 stalwarts from Stanford stormed a rally and captured it. Three years later, by mutual agreement, the Axe was made a Big Game trophy to be displayed in the student union of the winning team until the next Big Game. During the game...
That afternoon, still another Peruvian -Luis Elguera, chancellor of Peru's Santiago consulate-general-visited the statues. Over the protests of the Chilean carabinero on duty, he boldly made off with the Apristas' star-shaped wreaths. Discovering the theft shortly, the Apristas marched off to protest, first at the Ministry of National Defense, then to the office of Mayor Rafael Pacheco. Thundered the mayor, who had authorized their ceremonies: "An insult to O'Higgins and San Martin...
Inside Information. In Charleston. S.C., Mannie Griffin, suspected of theft, yielded up the evidence-a $20 bill and two $1's - when police made him drink a solution of warm water and soap...
...more than 2,000 at one of his smaller farms, a ranch in central Italy. The manager, Pierino Amori, explained that the animals had disappeared during the German occupation and that he had not wanted to worry his master with such a trifle; but the prince filed charges of theft against Pierino. This month he was to appear in court to answer the charges...
Further proof that the theft was by no means an undergraduate prank lay in the discovery that the picture wires were neatly cut at the locker doors which held them to the wall. Such handicraft requires tools, investigators said...