September 1, 1960
Louis Turzi closed his Aurora, Ill., tavern for the night
and decided to resume the vigil he maintained after a recent series
of burglaries. But Turzi fell asleep and awakened to...
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September 1, 1960
In Vallejo, Calif., a young gunman held up a liquor store,
made his getaway on foot, and one hour later strode into Arlie J.
Campbell's liquor store and demanded all the money in...
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September 1, 1960
A bandit with a juvenile gang record chose armed robbery as
his first adult crime and was shot to death by Robert Malone, a San
Francisco gas station attendant. Malone, an avid target...
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September 1, 1960
Mrs. Katherine S. Petterson left two of her children with
their father at the county fair and drove back to her Kelseyville,
Calif., ranch home with 12-year-old son Keith. Soon after...
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September 1, 1960
When Rev. M.F. Cottrell looked out the window of his Denver
home and saw two youths trying to make away with his automobile, he
grabbed his 20-ga. shotgun and hurried to the street....
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September 1, 1960
A burglar with a long criminal record was shot to death by
Neil Humphrey, a Sarasota, Fla., storekeeper who was sleeping on the
premises. Humphrey awakened in time to fire one shot...
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September 1, 1960
When Ray Dunn heard an intruder inside his Wingate, Tex.,
grocery after just closing for the night, he reopened the place,
found his cal. .22 rifle, and fired at a figure stooped...
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September 1, 1960
Masking their features with women's hose over their heads,
two bandits tried to rob William Angelo in his Detroit grocery but
were routed when the storekeeper grabbed his revolver...
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September 1, 1960
Winfred E. Hogg, robbed in the Kansas City, Mo., gas station
where he is night attendant, resolved to resist the next time and
bought a cal. .45 pistol. When an ex-convict recently...
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September 1, 1960
A San Quentin parolee jammed his way into the living room of
Los Angeles apartment house manager Mrs. Louise M. Rogers, shoved a
pistol at her, and demanded the rent receipts. When...
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September 1, 1960
When a gunman pointed a pistol at Edward J. Burns in his
Louisville, Ky., liquor store, the proprietor dashed behind a
partition, the bandit fired once, and Burns came out shooting...
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September 1, 1960
In Palmer, Mich., a man who hacked at the door of the Pleau
residence with an ax, threatening to murder the entire family, was
killed when Earl Pleau, 20, fired a cal. .22 rifle through...
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September 1, 1960
Markos Marcuri went to sleep in the rear room of his
Baltimore saloon but was soon aroused by burglars. Marcuri got his
cal. .38 revolver and went to the front where he surprised...
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September 1, 1960
In Houston, Tex., Leonard J. Redig grabbed his shotgun as
the intercom alarm sounded in his room when burglars entered his
barbecue stand next door. Spying two figures inside the...
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September 1, 1960
In Richmond, Va., Chun Chin was hit five times by burglars
in past months and his hand laundry robbed of money and other
property. When Chin recently awoke and heard sounds of someone
...
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August 1, 1960
When a bandit with a record of arrests on narcotics charges
pointed a pistol and said, "Give!", Manhattan grocer Victor Comacho
nodded, reached under the counter, and came up clutching...
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August 1, 1960
In Columbus, Ga., Mrs. Thelma D. Lee, a mother of five small
children, awoke to see an intruder at her bedside. Mrs. Lee, whose
husband must work at night, eased a cal. .22 revolver...
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August 1, 1960
Shortly before midnight two men roused Oscar Gruter in his
Santa Clara, Calif., motel and asked for a room. Suddenly, one of
them grabbed Gruter by the throat and the companion headed...
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August 1, 1960
After burglars looted his Ford, Wash., store the ninth time,
83-year-old A.L. Davis slept in the place armed with a cal. .38
revolver. Recently, when Davis heard sounds of a break...
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August 1, 1960
Joseph A. Marino had just left his New Orleans pharmacy and
gotten in his automobile when a thug grabbed the car door, pointed a
pistol at Marino, and said, "Yeah, it's me again."...
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July 1, 1960
After a browsing visitor left his Harlem pawnshop,
70-year-old Charles Goodman told son Allen, "That guy looks like a
stickup man. I'll bet he comes back." The elder Goodman then...
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July 1, 1960
When two bandits invaded his Huntington, N.Y., jewelry
store, Barney Freedman grabbed his gun from a nearby cabinet and
fired at the armed pair. Both men fled and Freedman gave chase....
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July 1, 1960
Plagued by a series of housebreakings, Oakland, Calif.,
neighbors Robert Ryan and Elijah Irving lay in wait in the latter's
home, hoping to trap the burglar on his next visit. Shortly...
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July 1, 1960
In Detroit a young hoodlum abandoned his three companions
who were taken by police after an abortive robbery attempt and made
his escape in the stolen getaway car. Intent on continuing...
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June 1, 1960
As the intercom burglar alarm sounded, Wes Johnson jumped
from bed, grabbed a ready cal. .45 pistol and 12-ga. shotgun, and
hurried to his nearby Deeth, Nev., tavern. There Johnson...
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June 1, 1960
After calling the sheriff to report two suspicious men
sitting in a car near his Pharisburg, Ohio, grocery and gas stop,
Stanley Rhoades resumed the business of putting stock in order....
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June 1, 1960
Frank Guido was in the back of his Bronx liquor store when
two bandits brandishing guns herded his clerk to the rear. Guido
picked up his cal. .38 revolver from a shelf, tucked it...
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June 1, 1960
Sixteen-year-old John Rubel was with his grandmother in the
living quarters over her Chicago tavern when they heard glass break
in a window below. John raced downstairs, grabbed...
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May 1, 1960
In New York City's theatrical district, actor Jay Scott
awakened in his apartment and saw a burglar on a fire escape opening
the window of a nearby flat. Scott tried to telephone...
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May 1, 1960
When two bandits said, "It's a stickup; everybody stay put,"
Los Angeles jewelry clerk Kenneth Walton lunged for the cal. .38
revolver he keeps handy on top of the safe. One bandit...
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May 1, 1960
In St. Catharines, Ont., Mrs. J.C.R. Fitzgerald, a widow in
her 80's, refused when a burglar broke into her bedroom and demanded
her jewelry. Instead, Mrs. Fitzgerald reached for...
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May 1, 1960
Chicago jeweler William S. Kraicek, suspicious of the
stranger who entered his shop, quietly removed his pistol from a
drawer behind the counter. When the stranger pulled a cal....
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May 1, 1960
Bartender Curtis H. Scott closed his East St. Louis, Ill.,
tavern for the night, walked past the nearby alley, and was accosted
by two robbers who forced him at gunpoint to return...
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May 1, 1960
Sixty-year-old George Saddic managed to reach his cal. .38
revolver and fire two shots at his assailants just before collapsing
in his Philadelphia candy store from an assault by...
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May 1, 1960
In Chattanooga, Tenn., ham radio operator George Zarzour had
just retired when he heard someone tampering at the window. With
the crash of glass, George, now joined by brother Abe...
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May 1, 1960
When a robber attacked him in the darkness of his back yard,
Bruce Haughey mounted lights on the garage behind his Topeka, Kans.,
home and secreted a .38 pistol to carry on the walk...
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May 1, 1960
In Fort Fairfield, Maine, Mrs. Otis Flannery woke her
husband, grabbed a Luger pistol, and ran across the road to their
store where they surprised two burglars. Mrs. Flannery forced...
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May 1, 1960
Two men bought soft drinks in Cecil Saunders' York County,
VA., general store, shot him in the knee with a cal. .22 pistol,
then demanded all the cash. The storekeeper gave them...
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March 1, 1960
After being robbed in his Sacramento, Calif., apartment of
$1100, restaurant owner Louis Jim Chong armed himself with a cal.
.380 pistol. Chong was watching television when he was...
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