February 1, 1963
After discovering and reporting the theft of automotive
equipment from an auto rental firm in St. Joseph, Mo., the owner of
the firm, Harold Martin, returned to the scene armed with...
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February 1, 1963
Police answering a call from an automatic laundry in
Freeport, La., arrived at the store to find two youths being held at
gun point by the manager, Elmer Davison. From his quarters...
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February 1, 1963
While walking her dog, Mrs. Victoria Roginski, an apartment
house manager in Cleveland, Ohio, noticed three men working on a car
in the darkness behind the house. She got her .32...
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February 1, 1963
As a result of a burglary in his combination grocery-liquor
store in Worley, Idaho, Ernest Lagow was sleeping in the rear of the
store when he was awakened by the sound of breaking...
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February 1, 1963
An Atlas, Ill., mother of five, Mrs. Frank Rodhouse,
returned home with her four daughters to face a shotgun-armed
intruder. The man herded them to an upstairs room where he bound
...
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January 1, 1963
Confronted by two youths who demanded the contents of the
cash register in her market in Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Julia Fowler
reached under the register, grabbed a .38 pistol, and...
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January 1, 1963
A 75-year-old grocery store proprietor of Yakima, Wash.,
David Ray, was awakened by the sound of a car stopping in front of
his store one night. Armed with a 20-ga. shotgun, he investigated
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January 1, 1963
Alone in the small grocery store operated by herself and her
husband in Richmond, Calif., Mrs. Oleta Norris was attacked by a
young thief who hit her in the forehead with a soft drink...
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January 1, 1963
Standing in front of their Salt Lake City place of business,
Nate Gallenson and his son Art witnessed an assault and robbery.
Art dashed into a shop, obtained a pistol, and joined...
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January 1, 1963
A tall blonde woman entered Arthur L. Nelson's Los Angeles
store, drew a gun, and ordered Nelson and a customer to face the
wall. Nelson drew his own gun from a pocket and killed...
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January 1, 1963
Noises in the tavern adjoining his living quarters in Islip
Terrace, N.Y., awakened owner Alfred Cronauer who armed himself with
a rifle and investigated. He surprised a prowler,...
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January 1, 1963
Thomas W. Kincheon and his wife awoke to see a burglar
standing in the doorway going through Kincheon's trousers. The
thief had entered their Austin, Tex., home through a bedroom...
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January 1, 1963
Fearing that a squirrel which had just bitten her 3-year-old
daughter might be rabid, Mrs. Joe Miller of Houston, Tex., first
cleared the area of youngsters and neighbors and then...
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January 1, 1963
Suspecting the return of a burglar who had stolen $36 from
their apartment in Rochester, N.Y., two college students--William R.
Lamoureaux and Michael M. Lombardo--waited with loaded...
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January 1, 1963
Sounds made by two men trying to break into a cash register
in a service station in Orangeburg, S.C., awakened the proprietor,
Daniel Avinger. With pistol drawn, Avinger shouted at...
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January 1, 1963
Hearing screams coming from a neighboring apartment, Mrs.
Leila Koks, manager of a residence for women in Chicago, grabbed a
pistol and headed for the source of trouble. She saw...
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January 1, 1963
After being driven to his destination in a taxicab operated
by James Carter of Atlanta, Ga., a passenger hit Carter in the head
with a bottle and demanded the driver's money. Carter...
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December 1, 1962
Following a number of burglaries and car thefts from his
Schenectady, N.Y., service station, Joseph Albanese began spending
nights in the office. Hearing a window break in the rear,...
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December 1, 1962
Two men entered the Cleveland, Ohio, dry cleaning shop where
John Bercseny is a clerk, one with a pair of trousers on his arm.
One stayed at the front of the store while the man...
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December 1, 1962
Asleep in the rear of his Newark, N.J., luncheonette, Jacob
Fenney was awakened by the sounds made forcing a lock. Fenney armed
himself, and confronted the burglar in the kitchen....
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December 1, 1962
Plagued with burglaries of his Oakland, Calif., market,
one-armed Will Joseph had been sleeping in a loft at the rear of the
store. He was awakened by the sound of 2 prowlers who...
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December 1, 1962
When Warren P. Blanchard of Jackson, Mich., noticed a
strange pickup truck in his drive late one night, he armed himself
with a shotgun and went into his backyard where he found a...
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December 1, 1962
After his home in Royal Oak, Mich., had been invaded by 3
men posing as police officers, J.J. Levy, owner of a chain of
gasoline stations in the Detroit area, was bound and taken...
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December 1, 1962
Two men with stockings over their faces and one carrying a
sawed-off shotgun entered a Prichard, Ala., tavern, walked to the
dance floor, and ordered customers to line up against...
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December 1, 1962
Mrs. W.K. Goodwin was watching television in her El Paso,
Tex., home, when a man tore the screen off the front door, poked in
a gun, and said, "Open up. This is a holdup." Mrs. Goodwin...
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December 1, 1962
Noticing the operator of a grocery store adjacent to his
Helena, Mont., cycle shop struggling with 2 armed assailants, Paul
Drennon ran to his car for a pistol, and he and 2 friends...
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December 1, 1962
Hearing a shot fired in the air to attract his attention, a
Baltimore, Md., police officer stopped to find Salvatore Spinali
holding a thief at gunpoint. The thief had entered the...
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November 1, 1962
James Childs pretended to be getting money, as he had been
ordered to do, while a robber was looting his appliance store in
Neward, N.J. Instead, he got a shotgun from under a counter....
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November 1, 1962
While moving into a new home in North Hollywood, Calif.,
Robert Fuller, an actor in a television western series, heard noises
at a window. He grabbed a pistol, dashed out the front...
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November 1, 1962
From the kitchen in her home next to the frozen custard
stand she operates in Columbus, Ohio, Miss Bess Barton saw two
persons breaking into the stand. She telephoned police, got...
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November 1, 1962
Responding to a woman's scream for help in a neighboring
apartment, E.F. Schaaf of Willcox, Ariz., seized his .22 pistol and
hurried to the scene. There he found his neighbor's apartment
...
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November 1, 1962
After beating and robbing 66-year-old Fred Yeager in Los
Angeles, a pair of hoodlums forced the elderly man to take them to
his place of business to get more money. When they arrived,...
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November 1, 1962
Armed with a pistol, two youths held up a liquor store
operated by Otto J. Englert in Los Angeles. As the pair emptied the
cash register, Englert grabbed a pistol and shot one of...
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November 1, 1962
Two men walked into a Denver, Colo., liquor store, pulled a
gun and ordered proprietor Frank Levine into a back room. They
forced him to lie on his stomach, taped his hands behind...
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November 1, 1962
Al Mauk, night manager of a liquor store in Los Angeles,
discovered a man looting a cash register at 3 A.M. one morning.
Instead of putting his hands in the air, as Mauk ordered,...
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November 1, 1962
After being ordered by an armed bandit to surrender the
contents of the cash register in his liquor store south of
Wilmington, Del., proprietor Renato Giovannozzi opened the register
...
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November 1, 1962
An armed man demanded money from Carlyle J. Stroup, the
manager of a Charleston, S.C., drugstore, but Marion Jervey, who had
been visiting with Stroup, grabbed the barrel of the holdup...
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November 1, 1962
The manager of a waffle shop in Dallas, Jesse Ford, Jr., saw
a man enter the store, pull a knife, and attack a woman customer.
Ford grabbed a .38 pistol and, as the assailant ran...
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