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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November 1, 1962
After working the gas pumps at a service station in Chicago,
the attendant, Jerry Harmen, entered the station office to find a
man at the cash register. The intruder held his hand...
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November 1, 1962
Determined to stop a rash of burglaries in his bar in
Torrance, Calif. [three in one week], Richard Munz was waiting
inside with a shotgun and a .22 auto pistol when a man forced...
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October 1, 1962
From the backyard at his home in Elmont, N.Y., Sidney
Perlstein heard the sound of breaking glass at the home of a
neighbor. He then saw a man crawl into a basement window.
Remembering...
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October 1, 1962
Faced with a mob of about twenty youths advancing on him
armed with bottles, belts, and chains, Robert Rose, a service
station attendant in Detroit, fired two warning shots into the
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October 1, 1962
While spending the night in the tavern where he is employed
near North Wilkesboro, N.C., Bristol McDaniel was awakened by the
sound of a door being forced. He hid, waited until two...
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October 1, 1962
After noticing a youth close the door on a display case in
his jewelry store in Detroit and start for the door, Fred Weinstein
grabbed a revolver from behind a counter and ordered...
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October 1, 1962
The owner of a laundromat in Venice, Calif., Mrs. Mabel
Sims, was awakened one morning by the clatter of change in the
store. Through a window, she saw two men scooping change from...
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October 1, 1962
Memories of two recent robberies plus the appearance of a
suspicious-looking stranger in his store prompted Harry Smith of
Flint, Mich., to duck through a rear door and take out a...
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October 1, 1962
Awakened by noises in his home in Rosamond, Calif., Kenneth
B. Walker got up, walked into his living room, and discovered his
televison set was missing. Seeing the back door open,...
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October 1, 1962
Hearing the sound of breaking glass in his grocery store in
Germantown, Ohio, James Estep grabbed his shotgun and rushed into
the store from his adjoining bedroom. There he saw a...
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October 1, 1962
When a man approached Mrs. R.B. Rhodes in her grocery store
in Savannah Ga., and demanded money, the 58-year-old woman grabbed a
pistol and sent the man fleeing from the store. With...
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October 1, 1962
The husband of Mrs. Margaret Byars of San Mateo, Fla., was
away at work when Mrs. Byars became aware that there was a prowler
in her backyard. The stranger first yelled for her to...
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October 1, 1962
When Mrs. Arletta Norton, wife of the operator of the Valley
Drive-In in Mt. Vernon, Ky., returned to the restaurant one night
after closing, she found two youths inside frying hamburgers...
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October 1, 1962
A Tucson, Ariz., department store owner, Nick Parise, was
sleeping in his store until he was awakened by the sound of a
prowler. He picked up a gun, investigated, and found a man...
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September 1, 1962
When he arrived at the Napa, Calif., tavern where he is
employed, bartender Wally Frost noticed that the janitor was not at
work as usual. Before entering, he took a .38 pistol from...
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September 1, 1962
One of 2 masked gunmen was shot and both were in custody in
Tulsa, Okla., after they tried to force their way into the home of
Clarence F. Kamp and rob him. One of the bandits ran...
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September 1, 1962
An El Monte, Calif., osteopath, Dr. Ralph G. Gaytan, heard
noises in his office, armed himself with a .38 revolver, and
surprised a burglar ransacking medical cabinets--apparently
...
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September 1, 1962
While his father struggled with 2 thugs who were trying to
hold up the family's food store in Wilsonville, Oreg., 18-year-old
Terry W. Lowrie waited for an opening and, when he got...
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September 1, 1962
Alerted by his wife when she heard noises outside their
bedroom, John Daniel of Dallas, Tex., picked up a pistol and slipped
out to the front yard. There he spied a youth rolling...
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September 1, 1962
Duane K. Becksted was sleeping in a room over his service
station in Tucson, Ariz. He heard a car drive up and saw 2 youths
get out and break into a vending machine. Becksted called...
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September 1, 1962
After filling an order in a liquor store in Ft. Worth, Tex.,
night attendant W.C. Wilshire turned to find himself facing a gun.
He ducked behind a counter, grabbed a .45 pistol,...
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September 1, 1962
When Fred Wayne, a clerk in a St. Louis confectionery store,
was approached by a stranger who threatened him with a razor and
demanded cash, he walked to the cash register, took out...
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September 1, 1962
While trying to evade the charge of a knife-wielding
attacker, Dr. J.C.W. Rhodes, a Shreveport, La., veterinarian, called
to an assistant to get a gun. The assistant got a .38 and...
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September 1, 1962
A Canton, Ohio, man was sent to the hospital in serious
condition with shotgun wounds in the face after he tried to force
his way into the home of Carl L. Myers of the same city....
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September 1, 1962
Hearing a scream for help from a woman who had just left his
stationery store in New York City, Albert E. Canton grabbed his .38
revolver and ran to the woman. She told him her purse...
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September 1, 1962
While closing his candy store in Detroit, John Jakubiak was
attacked by 2 men. He broke away and got an axe handle with which
to defend himself, but his assailants took that away...
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August 1, 1962
After spending the night on a cot in his Detroit grocery,
Simpkin Green awoke to find a man coming out of a cooler. He
reached under his pillow for a .32 pistol and ordered the intruder
...
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August 1, 1962
An armed, masked bandit entered a store in Avra Valley,
Ariz., about 30 mile east of Tucson, and told the wife of the owner,
Henry Clay East, to open the cash register. Unseen by...
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August 1, 1962
An ex-convict and his accomplice were in jail in Tucson,
Ariz., after they attempted an armed robbery at a liquor store run
by Joseph Kadjan. The store owner and his assistant, John
...
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August 1, 1962
After being knocked down and robbed by two men, Mrs. Frances
Busenbark, proprietor of the A&A Grocery in Portland, Oreg., grabbed
a .38 pistol and chased the men down the street....
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August 1, 1962
A burglar alarm wired to the cash register in the Watch
Hospital, a store in Inglewood, Calif., awakened the owner, Ray
Bader, who lives on the property. Spotting a man hunched over...
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August 1, 1962
David C. Warden, operator of a nightclub in Wichita, Kans.,
had moved into the club because of a rash of burglaries and was
waiting with a 12-ga. shotgun when two men tried to break...
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August 1, 1962
After leaving a nightclub in New Orleans, Roger Perino and a
friend were getting into Perino's car when a man approached and
shoved a screwdriver into Perino's ribs. Perino reached...
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August 1, 1962
Two burglars used a key to enter a cafe in Midland, Tex.,
but once inside they aroused the cafe manager, Willie Haynes, who
was sleeping in the kitchen. When the intruders began to...
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August 1, 1962
Herman Casavantes, manager of an apartment house in El Paso,
Tex., awoke one night to find that a stranger had forced his way in.
Casavantes told the man to leave, but the intruder...
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August 1, 1962
One man was in police custody with bullet wounds in the
right arm and another was in critical condition in a Chicago
hospital after an attempted robbery at a tavern operated by Frank
...
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August 1, 1962
A single blast from a shotgun fired by Richard Beedle halted
an attempted robbery at a gas station north of Williamsport, Ind.,
and wounded all three of the burglars. Beedle, who...
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