Word: wesson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author of that statement is not a spiritual brother to H. Rap Brown ("Violence is as American as cherry pie"). Rather, he is a former FBI agent named William G. Barry, chief of Smith & Wesson Security Services, a year-old firm that advises bankers on how to frustrate the robbers. Barry argues that knocking over banks has always been a particularly popular crime in the U.S., the home of such anti-heroes as the James brothers, John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde. Bank robberies in 1969 were running almost twice as high as four years before, and burglaries were also...
Bankers' confusion about the myriad protective systems has started a market for at least one consulting firm, Manhattan-based Smith & Wesson Security Services, which sells nothing but advice. In its view one of the most effective deterrents against robbery is slow-motion video-tape cameras, which run continuously for up to 76 hours, taking photos of everything that happens within their range. They can cost $4,000 each but they greatly increase chances of arresting a bandit. In New York City and San Francisco, banking groups ran full-page newspaper ads and circulated posters showing bandits' pictures -captured...
...foot patrolmen are the backbone of the Harvard police and their function seems to be similar to that of night watchmen in the Houses, with two important differences. The men are mobile rather than stationary, and each man is armed with a 38 Smith and Wesson revolver, a billy club, and handcuffs...
...Theory. Frazier next appeared at the home of his estranged wife Delores, carrying a .38 cal. Smith and Wesson revolver in his waistband and a backpack with food for several days. When he left, he handed her his wallet and driver's license with the remark: "I won't be needing these any more." Among the personal possessions he left behind was a book on tarot. A warrant was issued for Frazier's arrest and a watch put on his cabin...
...PHIL WESSON Marengo...