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Cambridge's minor crime wave struck home yesterday, when the Harvard Radio Network found approximately $55 missing from its offices. Both University and city police have been called in to help unwrangle the theft...
...network member, speaking unofficially, opined that the theft could conceivably have been pulled by some one on the inside. WHRV officials rushed to deny this, pointing out that anyone familiar with the studio would have known that nothing valuable was kept in the room which the thief broke into...
...regular job, and only once tried to get one; a railroad company turned him down as a clerk because of his bad handwriting. Once he reported to Engels: "I can no longer leave the house, because my clothes are in pawn." Another time he was arrested on suspicion of theft when he tried to pawn his wife's family silver (it bore the crest of the Dukes of Argyll, from whom she was descended through her paternal grandmother). Guiltily, he wrote to Engels: "My wife cried all night and that infuriates...
Cambridge and state police looked forward to a quick solution of the $50,000 Harvard Cooperative Society robbery yesterday as they announced that they have the names of three as yet unapprehended participants in the January 9 theft...
Police declined to identify the man further until a definite link with the $50,000 Coop theft had been established...