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...registered at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Virginia Water, Surrey, asked to be called at 9 o'clock next morning. When a maid tried to waken him, she found him dead; he had shot himself with a pistol-walking stick. Detectives checked the suicide, found that they had their jewel thief; Fieldsend was Holliday, and Barry had killed Bertie...
...Bicycle Thief. Italian Director Vittorio (Shoeshine) De Sica's tragic classic about a Roman worker and his small child buffeted by modern society (TIME...
...Bicycle Thief. Italian Director Vittorio (Shoeshine) De Sica's carefully made classic of a worker and his small child hopelessly scouring Rome for a stolen bicycle (TIME...
Book thievery at Houghton has been non-existent in spite of the apparent temptations. The only access to books not encased in glass is in the reading room--its door is kept locked at all times except when released by a switch from the circulation desk. If a thief should manage to slip a book out of the reading room, he would still have to get it past Mr. Matthews at the outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says...
...snatcher was last seen fleeing towards Thayer Hall with the pocketbook which contained "quite a good deal of money." Police believed the young thief to be the same bandit who committed a similar robbery Sunday night...