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Samuel Shipman in his 'Lawful Larceny' has attempted to prove to Public Opinion what he suspected it already knew; that it is unfair that safe robbing should be a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment while the theft of another's peace of mind, love, and husband are outside the jurisdiction of the law. Thinking that his audience would more readily accept this thesis if it was at first hidden, then dressed up as new, and finally revealed in its true aspect as a grenerally acknowledged truth, Shipman has lifted his moral into the end of the third act as sort...
...police believe that with the round-up of these gangs of crooks which have been working in and around Cambridge for the past few months, the wave of crime which has resulted in the theft of large numbers of automobiles and several large robberies...
...precautions were unnecessary. For the first time in many years not a single pick-pocket; not a single automobile thief was doing business in the crowd that filled the Stadium. After every game in the past cases of theft ranging from watches to automobiles have been reported...
...Inveterate Reader of mystery stories has not necessarily the instinct of either a crook or a sleuth; it is, as a rule, immaterial to him whether or not the final chapter brings with it the apprehension of the miscreant who effected the theft or murder. He is, on the other hand, a devotee of crime. He likes to see a good skull or a good safe well cracked. He enjoys the spinal titillation of secret and malign forces lurking in the darker chapters, ready to spring upon the superhero, who loses no opportunity of making himself their target...
...theft of a $500,000 Guido Reni canvas at Sacramento...