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Edward J. Pinc (alias Edward Bodery), 32, 6 ft. 2 in., 325 lb., brown hair, with two hands clasped over a heart tattooed on his left forearm, for the theft of U. S. mail pouch containing $16,500 in currency last March at Melrose Park, Ill. He wears a no. 12 shoe, smokes cigars continuously...
Other major groups of U. S. prisoners were violators of the Interstate Motor Vehicle Theft Act, the Postal Laws, the Counterfeiting Act, the Mann Act (white slavers...
...mistake for old whiskey. For a year these illegal extractions at Sibley Warehouse had been in progress, evidently, before their full extent was disclosed to Commissioner of Prohibition James M. Doran, who, last week in Washington, sat frowning at an 84-page report. At 'legger prices, the liquor theft, directly under the nose of U. S. agents, amounted to some...
...ever heard during the campaign any talk about enforcing the laws against murder or theft or robbery? . . . In an unguarded moment I allowed myself to be persuaded to insert [in the Prohibition investigation authorization] the parenthetical words 'together with the enforcement of other laws.' There was no purpose on earth to make other laws the feature. . . . But now what has happened? The parenthesis has been made the main thesis. Prohibition enforcement has been submerged...
Attempted Theft. The Roma is the huge Bellanca sesquiplane which C. Sabelli was to fly to Rome last year. But her size and fame were no deterrents to six presumed thieves who last week audaciously attempted to take her from her hangar at Wilmington, Del. Bellanca guards forewarned by telephone frustrated the attempt and pleased George Haldeman, co-pilot of Ruth Elder's trans-Atlantic flight, now Bellanca's chief test pilot, who privately plans to fly the Roma whither publicity abounds...