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Edward Kiernan, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, branded Phillips a "greedy thief." Most cops, while not denying much of what Phillips said, felt that he had given them all a bad name at a time when they need public respect more than ever. "If I made as much money as Phillips said," scoffed one detective, "I'd be living in a palatial estate in Westchester." Complained a subway cop: "Down here in the hole, how the hell can you take any graft? There's no freebies underground. But as far as the public is concerned...
...courtier taking his leave: "This ghost, an ageless young man, ever idle and restless, courteous and cruel, unchanging child of change, this man will say no more. He touches his lips to signal silence. He smiles and, miming the blowing out of a candle, he takes a thief's farewell, first the color fading, then the sad cold light of his eyes gone, and one last blinking of something-a jewel, a ring, a coin cupped in his palm, and darkness comes between us and is final...
Till arranged to meet Schwilden after midnight in front of a church in a remote village. At the rendezvous, Schwilden found a scared young man wearing a plastic mask who blindfolded him, then drove him for miles around the countryside. "I am not a thief," he insisted. "I am an idealist who stole to do something about the refugees and the hunger." Deep in a forest, he produced the picture, which he held up before the car's headlights while Schwilden photographed...
Museum officials and the insurance company piously proclaimed that they could not be sure that the photographs were of the real Vermeer and that they needed more proof. The thief fell into the trap, telephoning now one newspaper, now another...
...always went to the same telephone booth in a gas station to make his calls. One day the owner's wife overheard him saying something about a painting. When he hung up, the owner tailed him on his motorcycle, while his wife called the police. The thief tried to cut across fields, but was finally caught cowering behind a heap of manure. The boy identified himself as Mario Roymans, 21. In his small apartment above a restaurant where he worked as a waiter, the lost Vermeer was found under his bed. Roymans' knife had sliced an inch...