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...bikes. More than 3,300 cars were stolen in Cambridge last year. Even with the doors locked and the windows rolled up, it's easy to get into any car with a coat hanger, to force the ignition with a screw-driver and drive away within seconds. If a thief wants to get you, it's hard to keep him from succeeding. As one Cambridge police lieutenant says, "We haven't even started to touch the creative genius of these people. We try to think how to prevent a crime, but we can't think like them." The best deterrents...
...jewelry. Last week, returning to make a film, she discovered that the October rascals had just been snared, but that no loot had been recovered. Determinedly sitting through a series of police lineups, Sophia successfully fingered the two culprits, then departed to shoot scenes in an appropriate location: thief-infested 42nd Street...
...Thousand Clowns, Scenarist Herb Gardner created Murray Burns, the same avian specimen ostentatiously hiding his self-pity in a cloak of jokes. Georgie is a blurred replica of Murray, surrounded by the same narcissistic suffering and arriving at the same lame insights: "Time is not a thief; he's an embezzler, juggling the books at night so you don't notice anything's missing...
Wild was not the first thief-taker to turn a profit in this trade; he was merely the most gifted. A proof of his talent was one of his creations known as the "Lost Property Office." Wild would approach a citizen from whom money or documents had been stolen (generally in a theft organized by Wild), and represent himself as a man whose crime-fighting had given him some knowledge of the underworld. Perhaps he could be of help. In a day or two-sometimes only a few hours-he would return with the suggestion that the citizen appear...
Beggar's Opera. Achievement such as Wild's does not go unnoticed, and one day in front of Old Bailey a betrayed colleague named Blueskin Blake tried to cut the Thief-Taker General's head off with a dull knife. He failed. In 1725, though, Wild was sentenced to be hanged by a corrupt judge (appropriately, on false evidence that he had received a bit of stolen lace). Wild died wealthy, though. During his career the reward for giving evidence rose from ?40 to ? 140, or from $2,000 to $7,000 in modern money, as Author...