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
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
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
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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March 1, 1960
Christ Borras, watchman for the Chicago Indian Boundary golf
course, was making his nightly rounds when a bandit poked a gun at
him and forced him into the concession shack where...
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March 1, 1960
Floyd Strahn closed his Pine Bluff, Ark., liquor store at
midnight and went to his car parked near the building. As he opened
the door, a gunman hiding in the back of the car fired...
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March 1, 1960
A youth was captured as he broke into a Winston-Salem, N.C.,
grill. Carl Shields was asleep in the restaurant when breaking
glass aroused him. Shields surprised the burglar and held...
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March 1, 1960
A felon who had spent 28 years in penitentiaries was killed
by pharmacist Nolan John Powers in his Houston drug store. When the
long-time convict and a confederate approached a clerk...
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February 1, 1960
Odell Teague was on the way to open his Cleveland cafe when
he saw two burglars hauling cases of whisky through the smashed
window of a state dispensary. When the robbers said, "Beat...
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February 1, 1960
In eighteen years of operating his Chicago tavern, John
Fahey has killed three bandits and wounded five others. The
70-year-old saloonkeeper thwarted a recent holdup by grabbing...
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February 1, 1960
In Saraland, Ala., the berserk husband of a woman charged
with possession of illegal whisky killed one police officer and
wounded another but, as he tried to make his escape, was...
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February 1, 1960
As Roman Kosinski, a Chicago jeweler whose avocation is
target shooting, waited on customers he heard window glass crash and
saw a masked man grab a tray of diamond rings. Kosinski...
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February 1, 1960
In 1956 a bandit who robbed Decatur, Ill., liquor clerk
James W. Miller of $1025 was captured three days later and sentenced
to prison. Recently paroled from his 20-year term, the...
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February 1, 1960
After buying $2 worth of gas at a service station near
Bowie, Md., the customer pointed a gun at attendant Gilbert Roy
Gertz and said, "Give me what you've got in your pocket." Gertz
...
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January 1, 1960
John A. Wilkinson, a nighttime railroad worker, was awakened
at 10 A.M. when the doorbell rang at his El Paso home. Wilkinson
ignored the ring until he heard the noise of a housebreaker...
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January 1, 1960
Grocer Stephen A. Hardcastle heard the burglar alarm in his
Hanford, Calif., store, got out of bed, grabbed his pistol, and
headed for the front door. There he captured 3 burglars...
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January 1, 1960
Sixty-two-year-old George E. Sellers armed himself with a
.410-ga. shotgun and went to his barn when he heard someone breaking
in. The surprised thief grappled with Sellers, trying...
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January 1, 1960
Shortly after robbing the Palatka, Fla., bus station, a
burglar was killed when he jimmied a door to Richard Henderson's
bar. Henderson slept in the building and awoke in time to...
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January 1, 1960
When the intercom burglar alarm woke them in their house
adjacent to their root beer stand near Lawrenceburg, Ind., Philip
Bauer and son Thomas armed themselves with pocket and target...
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January 1, 1960
Roland L. Braxton surprised a burglar in the kitchen of his
Cranston, R.I., home when he came in at 2 A.M. The intruder flailed
at Braxton with a bread knife, inflicting a scalp...
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December 1, 1959
Alton A. Sanford of Texarkana, Ark., who collects dimes as a
hobby, placed his special mark on a number of them after his store
was burglarized. When burglars struck again, the storekeeper...
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December 1, 1959
Sherwin Alberts, a Canton, Ohio, grocer, keeps 2 guns
secreted in the store. When 2 bandits entered, one herding Alberts
and wife at gunpoint to the rear while the other rifled the
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December 1, 1959
When 2 holdup men, simulating guns in pocket, menaced
Catherine and Josephine Alford in their Detroit grocery,
sister-in-law Josephine grappled with one bandit while Catherine
grabbed...
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December 1, 1959
Thomas H. Myrick was in the back room of his Albuquerque, N.
Mex., liquor store when he heard his wife pleading with a holdup man
rifling the register. Myrick rushed out with shotgun...
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November 1, 1959
Two youths who confessed to six jewelry store burglaries
were captured at gunpoint by bartender James O'Brien when they
switched targets by breaking into a Coram, N.Y. saloon. O'Brien
...
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November 1, 1959
Virgil Ruskin got out of bed and returned to his Columbus,
Ohio, restaurant on a hunch that the place might be burglarized.
The restaurant had been broken into three times in recent...
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November 1, 1959
When burglars stole many valuable tools from Clyde Inman's
garage in San Bernardino, Calif., the proprietor began sleeping in
the place. Inman was recently awakened by two tire thieves...
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November 1, 1959
After his father-in-law was killed by a bandit in his
Oakland, Calif., liquor store, Forrest Norman Anderson became the
proprietor and bought a cal. .38 pistol for protection. When...
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November 1, 1959
After the fourth robbery of their Judson, Minn., implement
company, Harvey Rengsdorf and Edwin Fischer went on the alert. From
his nearby home Rengsdorf noted prowlers, got his shotgun,...
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November 1, 1959
Two gunmen kidnapped an Eclectic, Ala., town policeman and
used the officer to gain admittance to the home of Carl Ray Barker
in the early morning hours. Barker, an Eclectic banker,...
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November 1, 1959
When two armed paroled felons invaded a Shreveport, La.,
grocery and herded four employees and a customer into the cold
storage box, proprietor Charles Whorton protested. One thug,...
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October 1, 1959
An ex-convict with a fresh bullet wound from a previous
robbery attempt was killed by the owner of a Portland, Oreg.,
drive-in as he chopped his way into the restaurant with a hatchet....
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October 1, 1959
Leonard Conwell and son Robert had just closed their Bear
Creek, Pa., restaurant when a car pulled up. Victimized by
vandalism and six burglaries in recent months, the Conwells quietly
...
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October 1, 1959
Dominick Litz, watchman for a Miami, Fla., sausage company,
investigated with drawn pistol when he heard a noise in the plant.
Litz surprised a burglar descending a stairway and...
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October 1, 1959
John Paul, who lives in a basement apartment below his St.
Paul, Minn., furniture store, heard intruders' footsteps and got his
cal. .38 revolver. In the dim glow of a street light,...
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