BURGLAR SCHOOL
STUDY BY CORRESPONDENCE KEW YORK, July There is a correspondence school of burglary in America, while text books arc procurable on specialised forms of violence. This was revealed through the arrest of two young men to-day at Charleroi, Pennsylvania. Both were students of the correspondence school, and both were taking ’honours in safe-breaking. One-of them, an ex-policeman named Spindler, had in his possession a text book on ‘ Blackjacking and How Best to Subdue Victims.’
Both were equipped with revolvers, false moustaches, lensless spectacles, rubber gloves, and “ quick change ” clothes. William Friend, the second man, told the police that lie would reveal the authors of the correspondence course if they would only protect him from his confederate Spindler, who measured 6ft iliu and can bend iron bars -wth In* hands.
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Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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131BURGLAR SCHOOL Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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