Word: theft
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...Codes of ethics are much more binding among thieves than among legitimate commercial firms. Should an outfit have a putup touch (opportunity for theft suggested by an outsider) for 10%, no other outfit would think of offering the putup man 15% for it. . . . Lying is perhaps considered by thieves to be more unethical than it is by the law-abiding. . . ." A member of Yellow Kid Weil's famed Chicago confidence gang reported: "In all my life I never heard of a racket man padding an expense account...
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...Rembrandt pictures stolen from Fogg Museum; second theft in year...
...Gardner, Kans., Mrs. Harry Eyerly reported the theft of four chickens, one of which "always lays a double-yolked egg." Soon afterwards Sheriff Emmett Pitt stopped James Burtis at Olathe with eight hens in his automobile, arrested him when he found a double-yolked egg on the back seat...
...Huntsville, Tex., tiring of working at the Harlem Prison Farm, William H. Shoemake. 19, serving a two-year sentence for theft, paid another convict $5 to chop off his right foot with...