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Verdict. In Los Angeles, George Leingang was convicted of grand theft and fined $1,000 for selling "worthless oil land," four years later made a $1,000,000 strike...
...Four others herded twelve bank employees and four customers into a patio in the rear, while the gang leader and an aide went to the office of the bank's manager, Esteban Juncadella. He found him chatting with, of all people, a sub-inspector of the Bureau of Theft of the secret police...
What of the Night? Biggest crime was the theft from an Orly airfield customs shed of over $168,000 worth of gold, awaiting shipment to the Bank of Indo-China. With a departing Paris-Algiers plane drowning out their noise, three men had broken into the shed after midnight, heaved three kegs of the gold into a small sedan and driven away. Most memorable figure in the drama, though scarcely its hero, was Watchman Jean Quiniou, who arrived on the scene just as the men were driving off. "Had I been two minutes earlier," Watchman Quiniou pointed out philosophically, "they...
...writes in the carefully documented tradition of Henry Adams-i.e., unsparing, exact, relying largely on original sources, skeptical of pretensions to high motives. There is, in fact, an undercurrent of exasperation in Author Miller's account, as if he placed the grim record of incompetence and theft and treason in evidence, and said: "Now cheer." Curiously enough, the heroism of the seven years' struggle is all the more remarkable in an account that gives few people credit for much of anything, let alone heroism...
Public Record, As a prosecutor, he swept up shoals of bootleggers, con men, grifters, oil stock swindlers, bunco artists; jailed the county sheriff for gambling graft; jailed the Alameda mayor, city manager, and councilmen for bribery and theft of public funds; became the recognized legislative spokesman for the state's 58 district attorneys. None of his convictions was ever reversed after appeal to higher courts. His most famous case: the 1936 dockside murder of the nonunion chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos, for which three union officials and one fingerman were convicted. The trial was conducted amid cries...