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Self-Service. In Preston, England, a thief smashed the window of Arthur Boyle's clothing store, took a size 42 raincoat, left all other merchandise untouched, disappeared long before police learned that a shopper had said he wanted a size 42 raincoat, and would the store please put it in the window so he could come by and look it over...
...company 22,400 miles). But after U.S. soldiers on guard duty, potshotting at intruders, killed several innocent bystanders, General George H. Decker ordered: "No more shooting." The thieving went on, the 40,000 men of South Korea's police force seemed unable or unwilling to catch a single thief, and the U.S. Army chafed with frustrated exasperation...
...open, and flew on to Uijongbu, twelve miles north of Seoul. 'T have a box of spare parts on board," he radioed the field. When the box was unloaded, a Korean soldier heard "whimpering," found Kim inside. "That's a slicky boy [slang for thief]," observed James. Freed, Kim made his way back to Ascom City, told his story to Korean police, who took him to a U.S. Army hospital. Doctors washed off the tar, found Kim otherwise in "good condition...
Wristy Business. In Richmond, a thief broke into the home of Policeman Bernard J. Davis, made off with a set of handcuffs...
...story goes that a young Eastern lawyer complained to an old Texas judge about the Texas way with crime. "I don't understand Texas justice," said the lawyer. "You will suspend sentence of a convicted murderer, but you wall hang a horse thief." The old judge rang a spittoon with a stream of tobacco juice. "Sonny," he replied, "I reckon that's 'cause we got men that need killin' but we ain't got no hosses that need stealin...