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...theft took place at exactly 4:12 o'clock in the afternoon. The time is known because it was at that point that the buzzer in Apted's office started functioning. Apted immediately dispatched a prowl car, a number of policemen, and some finger print experts...
...theft was the first of art objects since last year, when two Rembrandt sketches were taken from the walls of the Fogg museum...
...first interested themselves in Mrs. Hahn one hot day last August. The proprietor of a Colorado Springs hotel, which she had just visited in the company of an aging but adventurous cobbler named George Obendoerfer, notified them of the loss of $305 worth of diamond rings. After tracing the theft to Mrs. Hahn, police found that Cobbler Obendoerfer had died the day after his escapade, poisoned by arsenic and croton oil. Further researches into Mrs. Hahn's career, which promptly took the form of exhuming corpses, suggested a curiously Teutonic fixity of purpose. Each corpse was that...
Before they get jobs, the Grand Duchess and the Prince not only use the subtle wiles of conferring lofty titles on their landlords, but are also driven to a little plain theft. When they learn that the French government, highly solicitous of such unusual guests, has been having the grocers look the other way while Her Highness lifts a few artichokes, they are righteously enraged at the mean deception practiced upon them...
Annoyed if not perplexed is Pennsylvania's Governor George Earle by bootleg coal mining, which began about five years ago in the depth of Depression and is now a $30,000,000-a-year industry based squarely on theft but supporting a sizable chunk of his State's population in a manner to which it has become thoroughly accustomed. The coal' leggers rumble ominously about "human rights." After a personal visit to the bootleg fields last year, Governor Earle appointed a five-man Anthracite Commission to find an answer...