March 1, 1961
An ex-convict entered a St. Louis dry goods store, struck
owner Clarence E. Skala on the head with a brick-filled sack, and
bound and gagged him. After looting the store, the felon...
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February 1, 1961
A Sing Sing parolee with a prison record dating from 1940
invaded the Brooklyn pharmacy of Joseph Longo, herded the proprietor
to the rear, then rifled the cash register. As the...
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February 1, 1961
In Troy, Mont., when the burglar alarm sounded in his store
next door to his home, Les Coffman got his cal. .38 pistol, ran to
the shop, and caught an intruder inside. When Coffman...
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February 1, 1961
Van F. Sims, who lives in a Kansas City, Kans., apartment
next to a dry cleaning shop, awoke to the crash of glass and saw a
burglar entering the store. Sims grabbed his cal. .22...
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February 1, 1961
Orval Stoner closed his Charlestown, Ind., gas station and
headed for his car with the day's receipts. Hiding behind the
station, an ex-convict, armed with a rifle, demanded the...
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February 1, 1961
Delicatessen owner Stanley Wasik snatched his cal. .38
revolver from under the counter and shot two bandits who entered his
Chicago shop brandishing guns. One was captured at the...
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January 1, 1961
Harry Shrago stood just outside the door of his Omaha
grocery and heard daughter Florence shriek from inside the store
when two men leveled guns at her. Shrago, who carries a gun...
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January 1, 1961
Stan Baker went to the rear of his Seattle gun store to get
a box for the rifle selected by his two customers. Hearing the
click of his handgun display case opening, Baker hurried...
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January 1, 1961
When two holdup men entered a pawnshop outside Ft. Campbell,
Ky., proprietor Andrew F. King told the one with the gun, "Son, you
can't get away with it. They'll get you sooner or...
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January 1, 1961
Near Jefferson City, Mo., 16-year-old Judy Nolte, alone with
three younger Nolte children, grabbed a double-barrel shotgun and,
with the aid of pet bulldog Mickey, routed a stranger...
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January 1, 1961
Chicago grocer Stanley Wasik eyed the three men who entered
his store and found it suspicious that one stayed at the door while
his companions approached the counter. When the two...
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December 1, 1960
After two holdups of his Campbell, Ohio, tavern in which he
lost $3500, 73-year-old Nick Comsia began wearing his cal. .38
revolver. When a stickup man recently pointed a pistol...
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December 1, 1960
When two bandits entered a Van Nuys, Calif., liquor store
and pulled a gun on clerk Lew Barnett, Barnett let them have the
$340, then grabbed his pistol from under the counter and...
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December 1, 1960
In Chatsworth, Calif., when two holdup men demanded money,
liquor store owner Fred Smead, a paralyzed World War II veteran,
pulled a cal. .45 pistol from its strappings on the side...
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December 1, 1960
Wielding a carving knife, a masked burglar entered the
Stamford, Conn., bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. H. Grady Chandler, Jr.,
bound the World War II PT boat commander hand and foot, and...
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December 1, 1960
In Los Angeles, hotel manager William A. Boothby came to his
night clerk's call when an unkempt man sought to rent a room and
became abusive over the price. As Boothby came to the...
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December 1, 1960
Junius W. Jones, owner of an Aiken, S.C., hardware store,
loaded his 12-ga. shotgun and ran from his home to the nearby shop
when the burglar alarm sounded. In an exchange of gunfire...
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December 1, 1960
Twelve more burglaries were solved by the capture of a
youthful pair of bandits by Norman H. Carl and his son Norman, Jr.
Alert after capturing three burglars some weeks previously,...
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December 1, 1960
Thirty-three years ago Chicago druggist Arthur Thomas killed
a bandit who had robbed him once before. Recently, the 66-year-old
pharmacist faced an identical situation and did it...
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December 1, 1960
In recent years Mrs. Elizabeth Bowman's package store in
Chattanooga, Tenn., has been the scene of three holdups. All
bandits were thwarted: one was killed, two others wounded. ...
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December 1, 1960
When a felon, recently released from prison after serving
eight years for armed robbery, entered B.S. Denzinger's Louisville,
Ky., liquor store with his hand on an object in his pocket...
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December 1, 1960
Houston, Tex., drugstore-operator Claud F. Newsom knows
about holdups. His father was stabbed to death during one. His
mother was beaten over the head and robbed in another instance....
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November 1, 1960
In October 1958 THE RIFLEMAN reported Charles Di Maggio's
wounding of a robber after a taxicab chase in New York City. Again,
for his 12th success in the last 15 years, Mr. Di Maggio...
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November 1, 1960
James Cummins of Cincinnati heard noises in his adjacent
cafe and ran from his home with shotgun in hand to investigate.
When a burglar ran out, Cummins called on him to halt, then...
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November 1, 1960
Tormented by burglaries of his Seiling, Okla., cafe, Floyd
Hansen slept in the back room, hoping to catch the thieves. When he
awakened to sounds of breaking and entering, Hansen...
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November 1, 1960
Dr. Samuel M. Rosenbaum sat in his Philadelphia office when
an armed man burst in and demanded money. When the doctor tried to
talk him out of the holdup, the robber pistol-whipped...
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November 1, 1960
Three young East St. Louis, Ill., armed men, plotting a
robbery, drove to Ulles Akins' grocery "because it looked easy."
While one stayed near the getaway car, two donned masks,...
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November 1, 1960
Delos Badgero, 65, a handy man for a Linden, Mich., auto
agency, sleeps in the place with his double-barrel shotgun nearby.
In the past, Badgero has thwarted many acts of vandalism...
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November 1, 1960
NRA instructor Herbert J. Crook, resident caretaker of a
Hazel Park, Mich., out-patient clinic, awoke to spy an intruder in
the hall. When the burglar jumped at him, Crook fired...
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November 1, 1960
Alarmed by a series of burglaries in the vicinity, Alfred L.
Davis lay in wait for the fifth night in his Laclede, Mo., store
when a plate glass crashed and two burglars entered....
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November 1, 1960
Maintaining a vigil in his Austin, Tex., grocery after a
series of break-ins, Hale Hornsby surprised a burglar and shot him
in the arm with a cal. .45 pistol. The wounded man, a...
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November 1, 1960
After five years of operating his Monahans, Tex., liquor
store, Charlie Key met his first holdup man, shot him twice with a
cal. .38 pistol, and held him for police. The shotgun-armed...
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October 1, 1960
After terrorizing two women who barricaded themselves in
their apartment to ward off his advances, a berserk man attacked a
Las Vegas mother in her front yard, her screams bringing...
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October 1, 1960
When a neighbor called to tell him burglars were looting his
Cassville, Mo., fashion shop, P.E. "Tex" Vaughn seized his rifle and
sped to his store where he saw two men moving away...
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October 1, 1960
In Lock Haven, Pa., 70-year-old William Keller smashed a
hold-up gang when he caught two burglars in his service station and
held them at gunpoint until police took over. When a...
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October 1, 1960
Throughout the years United States armed citizens have aided
police in clearing up unsolved crimes. In El Paso, Tex., cafe owner
Arnold Adams held a gun on a burglar who later confessed...
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