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Misplaced Trust. In Oswego, Kans., after he lost his keys and was robbed of $942, Labette County Sheriff J. E. Morrow installed new locks on his office doors, commented in an injured tone: "What bothers me most is that I have a thief in my jail...
Orderly Man. In Manhattan, after he nabbed a thief lifting a wallet from a sleeping passenger's pocket and chalked up his 181st arrest, all of which resulted in convictions, Subway Conductor William J. O'Donnell, 47, said: "I don't want anything to happen on my trains...
Hand Laundry. In Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Catherine Moore complained to police that a thief who had swiped newly washed clothes from her clothesline had stolen a new batch, left the first lot soiled...
Died. Craig Rice (Georgiana Randolph Craig), 49, bestselling authoress of about 25 whodunits (Having Wonderful Crime, To Catch a Thief, Trial by Fury) and a handful of screen plays (Home Sweet Homicide, Underworld Story), whose hard-drinking, hard-loving, hard-dying heroes reflected their creator's liquid-decked (she was committed to California's Camarillo State Hospital in 1949 for chronic alcoholism), love-torn (five times married) and death-daring (she twice threatened suicide) Bohemian existence; of cause under investigation; in Los Angeles...
Piecework. In Phoenix, Ariz., annoyed at watermelon-patch pilfering, a farmer posted a hired hand and himself on each side of his patch, waited with shotguns, gave each thief who showed up the alternative of settling out of court for $10 or going to jail, collected as much as $150 in one night...