July 1, 1962
After being aroused by a homemade burglar alarm in his
grocery store next door, Clifford Carlson of Minneapolis, Minn.,
armed himself and surprised two men in the act of looting the
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July 1, 1962
A man entered a liquor store in Los Angeles, ran behind the
counter waving a 20" butcher knife and demanded that the clerk,
Nathan Dorman, give him money. Dorman reached under the...
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July 1, 1962
When Henry Lee of Washington, D.C., heard noises at his
front door in the middle of the night, he got his gun and went to
investigate. He got to the door just as an intruder crashed
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July 1, 1962
Tudoe Stoini had closed his restaurant in Blue Ash, Ohio,
and, with his wife, was walking to their auto when a man suddenly
appeared and grabbed a plastic bucket carried by Mrs. Stoini....
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July 1, 1962
The owner of a market in Columbus, Ohio, Theodore
Patsioures, pretended to follow the orders of two bandits who had
entered the store and demanded money, but instead he triggered...
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July 1, 1962
At the point of a gun, David C. Warren, proprietor of a
beverage store in Cleveland, Ohio, turned over $104 to three young
bandits. As he did, however, a customer entered the store...
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July 1, 1962
One man was hospitalized with gunshot wounds and three more
were jailed after an abortive attempt to burglarize a feed store
owned by I.V. Lynch in Hale Center, Tex. Lynch, whose...
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July 1, 1962
Alerted by a telephone call from a friend who said his
grocery store was being burglarized, A.M. [Bill] Shook of Hale
Center, Tex., armed himself and hurried to the scene. There...
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July 1, 1962
A youth with a stocking over his face and brandishing a .22
rifle entered a service station in Fitzgerald, Ga., and told owner
W.A. Tucker to empty his cash register. As the youth...
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July 1, 1962
While making a routine check of his sporting goods store in
Monahans, Tex., Lyle Saunders heard noises in a back room. He drew
his gun, discovered a burglar at work, and held the...
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July 1, 1962
Anxious to put a stop to a wave of Thursday night robberies
[four in five weeks] at their tavern in Topeka, Kans., Darrell G.
Johnson and Lanny Ellis armed themselves with shotguns...
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June 1, 1962
Hearing noises at the side door of their service station
near Albany, N.Y., Bryan and Harrison Bresett realized that two men
were attempting to break in. One of the brothers grabbed...
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June 1, 1962
Three youths, two of them armed, had just gotten $100 from
the cash register in a liquor store in Yonkers, N.Y., and were
attempting a getaway when one of the trio was hit in the...
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June 1, 1962
When confronted by an armed man in his liquor store in
Tucson, Ariz., Cressworth C. Lander drew a .32 revolver and forced
the gunman and an accomplice to surrender. Lander held the...
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June 1, 1962
Faced with a pair of burly strangers who demanded to see her
husband's prized gun collection, Mrs. Audrey Quirk, a 100-lb.
housewife of Peabody, Mass., demurred. When the pair tried...
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June 1, 1962
When police answered a call recently in Accokeek, Md., they
found two robbers lying face down next to their wrecked getaway car
and a band of armed citizens standing guard. The two...
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June 1, 1962
With one hand thrust forward in his pocket and a
handkerchief over his face, a man walked into a grocery store in
Tulsa, Okla., operated by Charles L. Diven and told the grocer:
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June 1, 1962
Intending to loot a safe in the basement of an exhibition
hall in San Francisco, an armed burglar awakened two San Franciscans
who had stayed in the hall through the night to guard...
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June 1, 1962
Two men, accused of being members of a nationwide gang which
has been looting public telephone coin boxes, were captured by a
tavern owner near Bear, Del. John A. Sarapulski noticed...
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June 1, 1962
Douglas Zeman, a college sophomore, was in his family's
living quarters to the rear of their grocery store in Chicago,
Ill.,, when he overheard men's voices in the store tell his...
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June 1, 1962
Investigating noises in the basement of his home in
Milwaukee, Wis., Robert G. Schumaker encountered a prowler with a
deer rifle and shotgun taken from Schumaker's locker. Neither...
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May 1, 1962
Three men entered an Oakland, Calif., liquor store and
demanded money. When one leveled a gun at him, Clayton Burroughs
reached for a revolver he kept behind a counter and exchanged...
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May 1, 1962
Hospitalized and in serious condition with 2 gunshot wounds
was a man who attempted to rob a grocery store owned by William C.
Burchett near Wytheville, Va. After stealing a car,...
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May 1, 1962
A gunman died in a Chicago hospital after being shot 3 times
by his intended victim, tavern owner Samuel Evans. The dead man had
attempted to hold up the tavern, using a patron as...
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May 1, 1962
A youthful gunman forced Stan Baker, proprietor of Stan's
Gun Shop, Seattle, Wash., to turn over $21, some ammunition, and a
pair of pistols; but as the thief turned to leave, Baker...
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May 1, 1962
Refusing to be intimidated by 2 bandits, one of them armed,
who demanded money in his Milwaukee tavern, Vincent Catteruccia
pulled a .38 from under the bar and ordered the pair not...
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May 1, 1962
After being awakened by the sound of shattering glass at 5
A.M., William Parrish, a New York City barber with quarters to the
rear of his shop, picked up his .22 rifle and went into...
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May 1, 1962
Complying with the demand of an armed bandit, Joe Decuir,
manager of a beverage store in Beaumont, Tex., emptied the contents
of his cash register into a paper sack. But when the...
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May 1, 1962
Holding his hand in his jacket pocket to indicate he could
be armed, a man demanded money from Daniel Pitcher in the latter's
Philadelphia pharmacy. Pitcher quickly produced a .32...
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May 1, 1962
Seemingly complying with the demand of 2 holdup men to empty
his cash register, Saul Lippman, operator of a notions store in
Camden, N.J., came up with a .22 pistol instead. He fired...
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May 1, 1962
George Nepil was in the upstairs office of his supermarket
in Berwyn, Ill., a Chicago suburb, when an employee told him 2 men
were attempting to hold up the store. Nepil ran down...
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May 1, 1962
Don Capparelli, owner of a radio and televison service shop
in Greenville, S.C., surprised 2 yeggs trying to break into the
shop's back door and at the point of a .22 rifle, marched...
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May 1, 1962
Three hours before he died, a recently paroled safe robber
admitted 2 thefts previous to the one in which he had been shot.
With a cotton sack over his head and a 12-ga. shotgun...
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April 1, 1962
Willie L. Culpepper was seated at a desk in his Los Angeles,
Calif., service station when a man walked in, brandished a gun, and
announced a stickup. Culpepper reached into the desk...
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April 1, 1962
Two masked men, one armed, pushed their way through the
customers to pursue Jack Kapell to a storeroom in his Detroit,
Mich., bar. Kapell took a gun he kept in the storeroom and...
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April 1, 1962
After loitering in A.A. Dear's Anniston, Ala., market for
several minutes, a man pulled a pistol and demanded that Dear give
him the money in the cash register. Dear then was forced...
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April 1, 1962
A Marine deserter came into the liquor store operated by
Miss Isabel Amato in Los Angeles, Calif. He brandished a cal. .45
automatic and demanded the cash. But when he looked away...
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April 1, 1962
Eugene Jewell was worried about being held up some night as
he left his Bakersfield, Calif., grocery with the receipts, so he
carried a cal. .22 pistol in his right hand. When two...
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April 1, 1962
Two bandits, one armed with a pistol, attempted to grab
74-year-old Clark Pevehouse in his Dallas, Tex., grocery. Pevehouse
knocked his attacker's gun away and grabbed his own cal....
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March 1, 1962
A bandit with a revolver and a note demanding money entered
Joseph Nahas' Detroit, Mich., grocery store. Nahas ducked behind a
counter, grabbed a revolver, and fired three shots,...
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