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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March 1, 1962
Jack Dickison and his son Paul have captured seven men in
recent burglary attempts in their Cincinnati, Ohio, service station.
Hearing the alarm in their home, they armed themselves...
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March 1, 1962
Brandishing a cal. .22 pistol, a thief entered James E.
Ralph's Little Rock, Ark., package store and said "Give me your
money and put your hands up," to the clerk on duty. As the...
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March 1, 1962
A customer entered the Gardena, Calif., liquor store where
retired policeman Lee Burris is a clerk, drew a revolver, and
demanded money or Burris' life. Burris, his spectacles knocked...
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March 1, 1962
Having been robbed at gunpoint and ordered to the rear of
his South Salt Lake, Utah, store by a thief wanted elsewhere for
seriously wounding a clerk in another holdup, Carl A. Templin
...
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March 1, 1962
When a customer in his Indianapolis, Ind., package store
drew a 9" hunting knife and held it to his throat while demanding
money, manager John Sorrentino handed it over. But Sorrentino...
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March 1, 1962
After handing over the cash from one cash register to the
robber who confronted him in his Chicago, Ill., drugstore, Mitchell
Novick reached behind a second cash register for a gun...
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March 1, 1962
Clarence Williams was awakened and armed with a pistol by
his mother, who had seen a prowler wearing heavy canvas gloves and a
cap pulled low over his face forcing a window of their...
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March 1, 1962
While one man held a shotgun pointed at him through the
screen door of his Hamilton, Ga., cafe, another herded J.H. Roberts
around the counter toward the cash. As Roberts passed...
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March 1, 1962
Tampa, Fla., night service station operator Alfonso Pierce
was approached by a man with a gun and told to "reach." Pierce took
a cal. .38 revolver from his pocket and fired three...
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March 1, 1962
From his living quarters in the rear of his Big Springs,
Kans., store, W.C. Long was able to hear sounds of breaking glass.
He armed himself with a 12-ga. shotgun and went to the...
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January 1, 1962
As William Harlin was leaving his Oak Park, Mich., sporting
goods store, a 16-year-old escaped delinquent with a 16-ga. shotgun
stepped from behind some trash cans and tried to force...
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January 1, 1962
Before dawn, a holdup man in a stolen car pulled into the
Linden, N.J., gas station where Robert Haut is employed, came up to
Haut and announced a stickup, stabbed Haut in the cheek,...
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January 1, 1962
In the hospital awaiting removal of a bullet, a youth with
an extensive police record admitted having twice previously held up
the Wilmington, Del., combination grocery store-service...
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January 1, 1962
Alarmed by the sound of a car stopping suddenly outside his
Arundel, Quebec, branch bank, manager Charles Curtis Farran looked
from his office window to see armed, hooded men piling...
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January 1, 1962
A man entered Walter A. Watkins' Columbus, Ga., package
store, ordered a bottle of whisky, and then pulled a cal. .38 pistol
and announced a holdup. Watkins took his own pistol from...
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December 1, 1961
Having wrecked a stolen car down the road, two young gunmen
attempted to gain entrance to the Memphis, Tenn., home of Holmes
Winford on the pretext of summoning a wrecker. Failing...
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December 1, 1961
A policeman once gave Mrs. Hatsuyo Yasui what turned out to
be very good advice indeed. He mentioned that if ever she should
have to defend herself from a gunman, to shoot often...
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December 1, 1961
A conspiracy by four Detroit hoodlums to rob Joseph Triglia,
proprietor of a check-cashing firm, backfired when Triglia shot one
and neighbor Charles Hughes captured another. Approaching...
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December 1, 1961
Two men awoke John Zimmerman as they pried loose the door
plate on the main entrance to his Dearborn, Mich., sports shop.
Zimmerman seized a 12-ga. shotgun and called for them to...
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November 1, 1961
Two youths knocked on the door of 73-year-old George Z.
Michaels' New York City basement workshop and, as he opened the
door, demanded money saying they had a gun. Michaels fired...
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November 1, 1961
Armed with a cal. .22 revolver, a thief three months out of
prison after serving a 10-year term for armed robbery, entered John
Waldrick's Albuquerque, N. Mex., store, forced Waldrick...
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November 1, 1961
A paratroop combat veteran of WW II, James Pandolfi was
awakened by the sound of breaking glass as a thief hurled a piece of
flagstone through the front door of his Buffalo, N.Y.,...
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November 1, 1961
Noticing one man in the phone booth and another loitering
inside the door of his Philadelphia, Pa., drugstore, Timothy Resnick
became suspicious and picked up a cal. .38 pistol and...
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November 1, 1961
After once having merchandise stolen from the Toledo, Ohio,
carryout of which he is co-owner, Charles Jackson was armed and
waiting inside after closing up when two burglars entered....
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September 1, 1961
A young gunman entered a Richlands, N.C., bank and forced
the teller at pistol point to fill a paper sack with money. When
the bandit had left, Warren Taylor, the teller, ran to...
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September 1, 1961
Two 16-year-old boys, in a stolen pickup truck and armed
with a shotgun, came to James F. Dittmore's general store and gas
station and forced the Verona, Calif., proprietor to lie...
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September 1, 1961
A man stepped from behind a soft drink machine and stated,
"I'm going to blow your head off," as Lee Phillips left his Bibb,
Ga., service station with the receipts in a bag. Phillips...
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September 1, 1961
Mrs. Winnifred Carter, who learned to shoot on her father's
Georgia farm and who still practices occasionally on the range,
heard her husband's call for help from the front of their...
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September 1, 1961
Two hoodlums rushed into Floyd E. Mock's hardware store in
Kansas City, Mo., struck a customer with a gun, and began beating
Mock. Mock's clerk rushed hammer in hand to his aid,...
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