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Good Old Daze. In Knoxville, Tenn., police reported that a thief had broken into an auto service department, taken a 1952 used car valued at $600, passed up two 1958 models worth $7,000 each...
Neighbor Hood. In Redondo Beach Calif., Leo D. Burr left a note on his door reading, "Make yourself at home-the key's under the mat," returned to find that a thief had taken two rifles, an adding machine, a typewriter, a sewing machine, a piggy bank...
Crook, Line & Sinker. In Sacramento, Calif., while Joe Borrego slept soundly in his hotel room, a thief using a bamboo pole with an attached hook fished through the transom, caught Borrego's trousers, portable radio, wristwatch, and wallet containing...
...Duty. In Evansville, Ind., a thief stole an eight-foot painting of Christ from the Camp Reveal chapel, carried it out past a neon sign flashing, "He watches you every minute...
Without Sugar. In The Bronx, N.Y., after bookkeeper Sylvia Youngerman went to a bank for a $2,000 payroll and to a restaurant for an order-to-go, a thief confronted her, snatched a sack out of her hand, fled with a container of coffee...