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The TV show Gotham on Fox is about Gotham City before Bruce Wayne becomes Batman.
I created minifigures versions of many important characters in Gotham. On the black stand, from left to right, the minifigures are Bruce Wayne (Batman), Selina Kyle (Catwoman), Oswald Cobblepot (The Penguin), and Edward Nygma (The Riddler).
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"From now on, when the American public thinks of John Dillinger, they'll think of Johnny Depp. Whoever Dillinger was in real life is going to be subsumed by the Johnny Depp version--which, in a way, is the best thing that could have happened to John Dillinger."
-- Paul Maccabee, author of John Dillinger Slept Here
Meet Public Enemy #1.
It's 1933. After nearly 10 years in Indiana State Prison for a $50 robbery of a local grocery store, John Dillinger helps his friends break out of jail in the first scene of Public Enemies. From that point on, you're on the run with Dillinger, the first U.S. Public Enemy #1, as he robs banks and lives the high life as fast as he can, always a step ahead of those hunting him down. Based on Brian Burroughs's book, Public Enemies shows how Dillinger lived his short life in the moment for the moment until star FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) catches up with him.
Can we put this guy in jail instead?
Even though gangster movies are not my favorite, I couldn't wait to see Public Enemies, probably because Johnny looked so dapper in the previews. Weeks before its release, I got an email from Fandango that opened with this photo. [See my blog post for the image, here: melissaconnolly.blogspot.com/2013/10/johnny-kitties-celeb...]
It actually took me a few seconds to realize who that movie star was. You've got to love it when Johnny cleans himself up and puts on a nice suit. Thanks for the awesome costumes, Colleen Atwood!
Against my better judgment, I went to the theater on a Saturday night the weekend that Public Enemies opened. It was July 4th and I thought everyone else would be outside watching fireworks, but apparently everybody in my neighborhood opted for gun fire. The theater was packed and, as excited as I was, I knew immediately this was a mistake.
I got there early enough to find a good spot, but just when I thought I was in the clear, a huge guy came in, fumbled in the dark during the last preview, and decided to sit next to me. Because I didn't want to be rude, I didn't move over to the empty seat next to me, and instead I suffered.
This guy bought a $10 movie ticket and at least $30 worth of greasy, smelly food, of which he only ate a few bites before falling asleep 30 seconds later and snoring! While he slept, his cellphone rang at full blast multiple times for multiple calls to no avail. Maybe gangster life was rubbing off on me as I tried to watch Public Enemies, but I really wanted to punch this guy awake. Instead, he woke up on his own in the middle of the movie and left!
The best part of this experience was getting this free Public Enemies lobby poster [See my blog post for the image, here: melissaconnolly.blogspot.com/2013/10/johnny-kitties-celeb...] from a pile outside the theater. It's too bad Johnny's holding a machine gun, but I took it anyway after what I'd just been through.
How can anyone sleep through this?
I was a complete ball of stress through this entire movie. Aside from the expected bloody gangster-related activities--the chasing, the shooting--and the guaranteed unhappy ending, it doesn't help that everyone close to Dillinger calls him Johnny throughout the film. Because Director Michael Mann used so much hand-held camera, the action is in your face, giving the movie a documentary feel. It's as if you're in the bank getting robbed or running with the gang, trying not to get killed. This flick is fast-paced, nonstop, exciting, and tense!
Gunshots aside, this great story is rich with history. Johnny, Michael Mann, and Christian Bale worked hard to make everything on film as accurate as possible. Filming took place in several locations where Dillinger actually was. They restored and filmed in Indiana's Crown Point jail, from which he once escaped using a wooden model of a gun. When Dillinger was arrested and transferred from Ohio back to Indiana State Prison, the media swarmed for an impromptu press conference. That scene in Public Enemies is filmed in the same room, which looks unchanged from Dillinger's original photographs. Similarly, Little Bohemia Lodge in Wisconsin, where Purvis nearly catches Dillinger, still stands and has much of the same furnishings. Michael Mann filmed Johnny's scenes in the same room that Dillinger used. At the end of the movie, he even dies in the same spot on the street in Chicago. (I'm not giving anything away here.) I love these kinds of details in movies!
It's in the stars!
What really makes this movie great for me is the performances by its stars: Christian Bale, Johnny, and Marion Cotillard. The entire cast is great and full of surprises: you'll even find Channing Tatum and Carey Mulligan in there for a bit. But these three main characters, with their different dynamic personalities, keep me captivated.
Melvin Purvis
Working for Herbert Hoover, Melvin Purvis rose from the ranks after some success in capturing popular gangsters of the day. "When he went up against Pretty Boy Floyd, he was very successful," Michael Man explains. "When he had to go up against John Dillinger, he was getting in the ring with Mohammad Ali." Purvis was energetic and focused on his work. Unlike Hoover, who relied on torture and intimidation to get information from and about criminals, Purvis was interested in new techniques in law enforcement that relied more on research. He was among the first to intercept phone calls, and when Dillinger left his coat behind after a bank robbery, he used a national network of Bureau contacts to track down where he bought it. "By the time they got Dillinger, he had to compromise himself and his own values so much by that point that he was questioning who is the real loser here," Christian Bale says.
Christian Bale researched his role with typical precision--reading, watching footage, and even asking the Purvis family endless questions. Purvis is portrayed as a methodical man of few words, who was ahead of his time. In this movie, he's like a quiet terminator on a mission, like the tortoise after the hare.
Funnily, because Purvis is always a step behind Dillinger throughout this movie, Christian Bale and Johnny were only in two scenes together. These two great actors met during a script reading but barely saw or spoke to each other while filming.
John Dillinger
John Dillinger was born into a lower middle class family in Mooresville, Indiana. In his youth, he got drunk, robbed a grocery store, and served nearly 10 years for it. "Dillinger's prison years was really a graduate school in bank robbery," Michael Mann says. "Dillinger, in a way, became a poster boy for the notion that criminals are made, not born, that criminality may have to do with personal characteristics but also with circumstances, with environment, with things that happen to you in your life."
Unlike Purvis, Dillinger was a charismatic people person. He understood how to work the press, which at the time glorified outlaws and their seemingly glamorous lifestyle. "He exploited the good press he got and knew how to manipulate the media to continue to get good press," Michael Mann says. "That was a great defense that meant that even though there might be a reward for him, people really kind of liked him and would think twice about betraying him. Dillinger was a folk hero to the majority of Americans."
During the Depression, most people blamed the banks for their financial woes and felt that Dillinger was acting out on their behalf. Everyone was also angry with the government for not coming to the aid of areas ravaged by dust storms and drought, fixing the financial crisis, and taking care of the homeless. They appreciated Dillinger's talent for making fools of those in charge. "He built himself into a legend," Johnny says. "I think Dillinger had some idea of what he was doing. I really believe he was at peace with the fact that it wasn't probably going to be a very long ride, but it was going to be a significant ride."
Jail time back then meant being completely cut off from the outside world. There were no TVs, radios, or other forms of contact to keep prisoners up to date. So, when Dillinger got out of jail, it was sensory overload just to be sitting in a modern car. What he knew about life on the outside came from watching movies. And, by that time, Dillinger was so popular that his lifestyle had become a theme in gangster movies. He was killed outside Chicago's Biograph theater, where he had just watched Manhattan Melodrama, a gangster film starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Clark Gable. Apparently, Clark Gable's gangster character is loosely based on Dillinger.
Johnny's performance in Public Enemies is fantastic! Being an performer who acts and improvises in the moment and always puts his own creative stamp on his characters, it must have been difficult for Johnny to work with a director like Michael Mann, who has an exact vision of what he wants to see in his film. "They should invent a word to describe it," Johnny says of Michael Mann's attention to detail. "Because it's not just details, it teeters on microscopic obsession with every molecule of the moment. You've got to salute that." The intensity on the set probably added to the great performance Johnny gives. You may not notice them amid all the stress and chasing and gunfire involved in Public Enemies, but Johnny's subtle moments and quiet scenes are my favorite. Michael Mann first noticed this quality when he saw Johnny on 21 Jump Street. (Yeah, 21 Jump Street!) "What was inherent in him were these deep currents of meaning, a sense of the unseen that's not necessarily demonstrative, but you sense darker currents," he says. "You sense the layered awareness behind his eyes."
When preparing for any role, Johnny always finds music that helps him connect to his characters. While working on Public Enemies, he constantly played "Nightmare" by Artie Shaw to stay in the mood. When I heard it, it seemed to be a perfect match to the feel of the movie. What do you think? [Check out my blog post to hear the song: melissaconnolly.blogspot.com/2013/10/johnny-kitties-celeb....]
Like Christian Bale, Johnny always researches his roles incessantly, especially when he's portraying a real person. For this one, he visited Dillinger's childhood home, a farmhouse in Mooresville, Indiana. When the movie came out, most of the media talked about how similar Johnny's background and physique were like Dillinger's. No, not the criminal part exactly, but Mooresville is about an hour away from Owensboro, Kentucky, where Johnny was born, so he already felt a familiarity. Because no audio recording of Dillinger's voice exists, the closest Johnny could get was to listen to Dillinger's dad. That voice sounded just like Johnny's own grandfather, so it wasn't hard to find that Southern drawl he uses for this role.
Johnny also went to The John Dillinger Museum, where he read Dillinger's letters and discovered that he fit into his own clothes. Dillinger is also one of those people that Johnny was fascinated with as a kid, so he already knew a lot about him. "Some people might disagree, but I think he was a real-life Robin Hood," Johnny says. "I mean, the guy wasn't completely altruistic, but he went out of his way not to kill anybody. He definitely gave a lot of that money away. I got a sneaking suspicion that he was probably a very lovable character. His choice of occupations was potentially questionable, although during that period, he was a man of the people."
Billie Frechette
Some of my favorite scenes in Public Enemies are those Johnny shares with Marion Cotillard. Billie Frechette was Dillinger's girlfriend for about six months before she was arrested for harboring her criminal boyfriend and sentenced to two years. Dillinger was killed while she was in jail. She was a waitress and singer since an early age. Of Native American and French descent, most of society looked down on her because of her Native American roots. But Dillinger saw what he liked and took it: As Michael Mann says, "Dillinger had no thoughts about the future until he meets Billie."
Although they are only in a few scenes together, I love the history and attitude that Marion Cotillard brought to her character. This role in Public Enemies is her first since her Oscar-winning performance in La Vie en Rose. The pressure was on, but Johnny put her at ease, and they got along great. "Marion really worked hard on that accent, and I think the way she speaks in the film adds so much to the personality of the character she plays," he says. "You can see why Dillinger fell in love with her so easily." Casting directors, I am waiting for Marion Cotillard and Johnny to work together again!
Hot off the presses: Dillinger is caught!
What surprises me about the '30s is how glamorized gangsters are, but I can see why, given the hard times everyone was experiencing. Dillinger was the leader and most liked among them all. Even Will Rogers joked about how Dillinger kept a step ahead of the FBI. When Dillinger is arrested, the media swoops in to capture his arrival for more jail time in Indiana.
Here, he addresses the press before heading to his cell. Reporters hang on every word he says, and the policemen seem just as pleased to host their new guest. (You'll find Norman, B.J., Simon, and Comet among them.) Sheriff Holley (Lili Taylor/Ashes), however, is having none of it. In the movie, she never actually makes the face that Ashes is making in this drawing, but I'm sure she's thinking it. Now, that's good acting!
Let's lighten things up a bit.
Aside from being a gangster, that same year, Johnny lent his voice to an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants called, "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One." At the time, Johnny and his son Jack were huge fans of the cartoon. (Maybe they still are.) In this episode, SpongeBob and his friends are swept out to sea by a tidal wave and left stranded on a tropical island. To get back home, they need to learn how to surf. Their teacher, surfing guru Jack Kahuna Laguna, comes to the rescue! He is too cool for school and pretty hilarious. Remember, "Just breeeeaaatheee...."
What's next?
Johnny makes time to pay tribute to a dear friend in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
For more images from Public Enemies or Johnny Kitties, see my original blog post, here: melissaconnolly.blogspot.com/2013/10/johnny-kitties-celeb....
Title / Titre :
Prospecting for bullets in the aftermath of a bank robbery, New Hazelton, British Columbia /
Recherche de balles à la suite d’un vol dans une banque, New Hazelton (Colombie Britannique)
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Unknown / Inconnu
Date(s) : April 7, 1914 / 7 avril 1914
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : ITEM 3379214
central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=3379...
Location / Lieu : New Hazelton, British Columbia, Canada / New Hazelton, Colombie-Britannique, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
Jack R. Wrathall Fonds. Library and Archives Canada, PA-095740 /
Fonds Jack R. Wrathall. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, PA-095740
The recent rash of mine robberies across the country has led Honest Abe and his team of heroes to Big Thunder Mountain. Here they find the Rowdy Doody gang in the process of stealing all the dynamite!
Abe and John Henry attempt to stop Rowdy Doody and Mr. Greenjeans from getting away aboard the mine train filled with the dynamite while Ulysses, Geronimo and Tommy Edison work to rescue a lone hostage, the old prospector "Kangaroo" Gus and his mule Mickey.
The members of the Rowdy Doody Gang find themselves pinned down, so Buffalo Bob tells Cobb to send in his pet, Zeke the black bear. Ulysses wants Geronimo to shoot the bear with his rifle but he refuses. Instead Geronimo attempts to use his mystical shaman powers to commune with the bear and explain that they mean it no harm. Mickey the mule doesn't care for the approach of the bear and begins bucking in an attempt to escape.
Brave Ulysses, always the impulsive one, decides now is the time to make his charge as Tommy Edison covers him with his trusty slingshot.
Can Abe and his team stop the run away train, prevent the dynamite from detonating, round up the Rowdy Doody Gang, rescue "Kangaroo" Gus, calm down poor Mickey the mule, and avoid being mauled by a bear?!
Tune in next time!
Built for the 2011 western contest over at Eurobricks www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=57703
Who are these masked birds?
Not Robin Hoods,
for they live in
the open woods.
They only deal
in stolen goods
like berry futures,
cedar cones,
and sweet, sweet, fruit
(but leave the stones).
Insects they catch
on the fly
when swarms of them
go buzzing by.
No need to worry,
moan. or fret.
Your valuables
they will not get.
BY JANE YOLEN
The Great Train Robbery Stop of Interest sign got a new look.
Located on Highway 1, 19 km east of Kamloops.
Sign Text:
Bill Miner, notorious American stagecoach and train robber, stole $7,000 in British Columbia's first train holdup, near Mission in 1904. For two years, unsuspected, he lived quietly near Princetown, well-liked by all. In 1906 he stopped the wrong C.PR. train here and found only $15! After a 50-mile horse chase he was caught and sent to the B.C. Penitentiary for life, but escaped to the U.S. in 1907.
Scope and Content:
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian
immigrants convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. After a series of highly controversial trials, Sacco and Venzetti were executed on August 23, 1927. That same month, IWW members participated in a three-day protest of the pending executions.
In Walsenburg, Colorado over 1,100 coal miners joined the protest, leading directly to the Colorado Mine Strike of 1927-1928.
Photographer:
Unknown
Subjects (LCSH):
Industrial Workers of the World -- History.
Industrial Workers of the World.
Digital Collection:
Industrial Workers of the World Photograph Collection
Item Number:
Persistent URL:
Visit the Labor Archives of Washington State, UW Special Collections reproductions and rights page for information on ordering a copy.
University of Washington Libraries. Labor Archives Digital Collections.
Related Resources:
Labor Archives of Washington State Website
Labor Archives of Washington State Collection Guide
Finding aid to the Industrial Workers of the World Photograph Collection, Labor Archives of Washington State, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections
Finding aid to the Industrial Workers of the World Seattle Joint Branches Records, Labor Archives of Washington State,University of Washington Libraries Special Collections
Finding aid to the Industrial Workers of the World Seattle Joint Branches Records, Labor Archives of Washington State, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections
Finding aid to the Everett Prisoners' Defense Committee Records, Labor Archives of Washington State, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections
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May 02.12 - MIERT surrounds a house where a armed robbery suspect is hiding. After a 6 hour stand-off MIERT found him hiding in the fridge.
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Category: Vignette
Title: The Bank Robbery
Description: An enemy of the sheriff tries to rob a bank. But the Sheriff, even though off-duty, quickly runs to the bank when he hears screaming. But can he stopped the armed robber?
ARS MORIENDI -II- Got stabbed
Robbery
Sometimes only for one buck,
Because of a single look,
They get the knife : wook wook wook.
That's then you really scream "fuck!"
Vol
Des fois juste pour un billet,
Ou juste avoir regardé,
Et ils sortent leurs couteaux,
Et c'est là qu'on crie "bobo!"
March. 1st 2010 Explored #453
Thanks everyone!
Copyright Photo © Jigmé Théaux www.jigme.fr
On 01/31/13, at approximately 9:00pm, the Subway Restaurant at 2522 Allen Blvd in the City of Middleton was robbed at gunpoint. A white male entered the store armed with a black handgun and demanded money from the cash register. The suspect left on foot with an undisclosed amount of money.
The suspect is described as a white male with blue eyes, last seen wearing a dark colored hooded jacket, blue jeans, black winter mask and athletic shoes. He was last seen running south from the business and may have been in the parking lot of Harbor Athletic Club before and/or after the robbery.
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call the Middleton Police Department at 608-824-7300 or contact Madison Area Crime Stoppers at 608-266-6014 or online at www.MadisonAreaCrimeStoppers.org/. Tips submitted to Crime Stoppers can be anonymous and may be eligible for cash rewards.
Sgt. Darrin Zimmerman
dzimmerman@ci.middleton.wi.us
Incident #13-660
DJZ/kc
Holland-Brasil
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Dear Marina and Phoclubfriends
After the robbery you ali where in i was very upset and thought about a way to help you. I had one camera in my cupboard for years without using it and thought maybe others would have that too. People from the Photoblog responded and sent me their spare camera's. Its analog but still very good working cameras. I hope you can work with it untill there is money for a new one. If not, maybe you could give them to kids of
the photoclub and let them work with real, sometimes a bit heavy, cameras.
The people who sent you these cameras are PeterVoerman, Doris and Rosalie.
and of course me too... two men at my work, who i tolf you about this robbery
wanted to give something too, the two pocket cameras en the underwater things. Their names are Henry, 84 years old ! and Leo.
I hope it will help a little.
Greatings from Holland
Piet -Panose
*
Querido Piet
Foi com grande alegria que recebemos o equipamento fotográfico que nos enviou.
Você e seus amigos, solidários à nossa perda (sem dúvida, mais do que material), nos trazem novamente a certeza que neste mundo de violência crescente existe também este outro lado, o lado bom, de humanidade, solidariedade.
É um ótimo recomeço, um incentivo para a gente seguir em frente.
Nós vamos em frente!
Agradeço em meu nome e de meus amigos do clube.
Muito obrigada, Piet.
Vou me reunir com eles e juntos decidiremos o que fazer.
Mandarei notícias.
Abraços,
Marina
*
Sensibilizado, após tomar conhecimento do assalto que sofremos naquela manhã fatídica de sábado em Itapuã, Panose (Piet) iniciou uma campanha na Holanda para nos ajudar, reunindo equipamentos fotográficos (usados) que foram enviados para o Brasil.
Picture of replacement jar at the Cork n' Bottle in Sedalia. They say they had about $1000 collected before it was stolen.
A great robbery (castle with several heads peering over walls); some new royalty (three crowned kings); bees will die (a bee-hive lying on its side); inflammation of the eyes (detached eyeballs); armies will fight (two hands hold crossed lances); many demons (three blue devils); dangerous for shipping (three ships in turbulent water); difficult vintage (three wine casks, one lying sideways); danger to hay (three green haystacks in rain); more new royalty.
The life of the Rock Island Lines contains many firsts and interesting stories but the lines' brush with the James Gang marked a day in history.
Jesse James, fabled outlaw of post-Civil War days, cut his teeth in the business of train robbery by wrecking, robbing and looting a Rock Island Lines train on July 21, 1873, near Adair, Iowa.
The gang robbed the express messenger of cash and relieved the passengers of their watches, cash and jewelry. It was one of the first recorded train robberies west of the Mississipppi and expanded Jesse James and his gang's operations from his specialty of bank holdups to train robbery.
It was about 8:30 p.m. when Rock Island Lines passenger train No. 2 was climbing a steep grade and approaching a sharp curve. The train, made up of two Pullman sleeping cars, five coaches and an express-baggage car was about four miles west of Adair.
Near the end of the curve the James gang lay ready with a rope tied to a rail they had pried loose. As the train rounded the curve the engineer, John Rafferty, saw the rope tied to the rail and immediately reversed his engine. However, the train ran into the gap and turned on its side, killing Rafferty and injuring the fireman.
The locomotive tender and two baggage cars were thrown from the track. Out of the bushes came the outlaws firing their guns in the air and causing panic among the crewmen and passengers. Jesse and his brother, Frank, with .44's cocked, confronted the express messenger. He quickly opened the safe, was tied and thrown into a corner.
The passengers, slightly injured in the accident, were confronted by armed men masked in full Klu Klux Klan garb. Panic set in with women and children screaming and crying and men hiding their cash, watches and jewelry. All the loot was dumped into bags and the robbers rode off, uttering a rebel yell characteristic of the Civil War period. They disappeared as quickly as they had come.
According to an account at the time, on July 22, William A. Smith, conductor of the ill fated train, testified today at the coroner's inquest on the body of John Rafferty, the engineer, who was killed when 'the train was wrecked 2-1/2 or three miles west of Adair station, and 600 or 700 feet east of Turkey Creek bridge."
According to Smith's statement, "I was in the smoking car near the front end. From the noise I thought the engine was in the ditch, with one or two cars piled upon it. I was thrown under the seat in front of me. Don't remember which of the car I got out, but know that I reached the engine on the north side. I went forward to see what was up. The first person that I met was one of the masked men, near the baggage car door, who pointed a revolver in each hand toward me and told me to get back, firing at me at the same time. I backed down as far as the sleeping coach before I felt I was out of his way. There I met Dennis Foley, the fireman, who said 'Bill, Jack is dead'. The passengers were in a hubbub, and the women and children were crying. I told the passengers that I thought the masked men were trying to rob the baggage car and tried to borrow a revolver but failed.
"I could still see the man from where I was. I saw another passing up and down the opposite side of the train. I think he was firing at me, also. Some of the passengers asked me to get into the train as these men were firing at me and I would be the cause of some of them being killed. I then went into the sleeping car at the rear, still trying to get a revolver, urging the passengers to keep quiet, as these men were robbing the baggage car. I went out of the ladies' car, up the back and thence to the engine.
"Two balls passed through my clothing while I was on the bank. These shots came from the south side of the train. I did not see a man on the north side then; did not see or hear anything more of the masked men. After the passengers got quiet, I went forward to investigate the cause of the wreck. At the hind truck of the smoking car I found a fish-plate had been removed from the rail at the west end and the rope was passed under the south rail across the ditch and up on to the bank. A piece of the rope was also found which seemed to be taken from the other. It was a new rope, the size of a common bed cord.
"The west end of the rail, when I saw it, was only a few inches from the south rail. The hind trucks of the smoking car were still on the track. We had been running 18 or 20 mph."
Law enforcement agents formed a posse and went in pursuit of the robbers and in September, 1873, the Lafayette County Vigilantes Committee, "traced the train robbers to Johnson City, St. Clair County, and surrounded the house where they were supposed to be hiding, but the birds had flown. The band consisted of three Youngs and the James brothers. McCoy was not with them. There was a reported fight between the robbers and vigilantes and the wounding of one of the Youngs. It was believed that the robbers had started for Texas." The Rock Island Daily Argus, July 25, 1873, stated that "A telegram from Wells, Fargo & Co., at San Francisco, Cal. fixes the sealed package taken by the robbers at $637, making the total amount secured by the robbers $2,337. Of that, $950 belonged to the CRI & P Company, and was being transported for them."
It had been at Council Bluffs, Iowa, the James-Younger gang learned that the No. 2 train of the Rock Island Lines would be carrying $100,000 or more in gold on July 21, 1873, for eastern banks. At the last moment the shipment had been changed to a later train. The United States Express Co. offered a reward of $500 each for the arrest of the railroad bandits. This made a total of $12,000 to be paid to the man who produced the arrest and conviction of the villains. A total of $5,000 was put up by the railroad company, $3,500 by the state and $3,500 by the express company.
Rock Island Daily Argus, Thursday, July 24, 1873: "Des Moines, July 23. - Nothing entirely reliable in regard to the pursuit and capture of the railroad robbers has been received at this place today. It is thought that they have crossed into Missouri and are making for the wilds of Mercer County in that state. The total amount taken by the robbers from the train in now known to be twenty three hundred and thirty seven dollars.
"The latest advices from the railroad robbers is that last evening between Creston and the State line, pushing for Missouri with the utmost speed. They passed a farm house last evening, about dark, their horses being well jaded. The company divided, one-half going in another direction. Dispatches received from the officers in pursuit, this morning, state that they have got between them and Missouri, whither the robbers are going. They are evidently regular Missouri guerrillas, who understand the business they are in. The country is all alarmed and hundreds are in pursuit and it seems impossible for them to escape although they are mounted on horses of racing stock.
"The engines on the Rock Island road are draped in mourning for the death of Rafferty, the engineer killed at the railroad robbery."
The robbers were too wily for those in pursuit and headed for their hideout in the hills of western Missouri where they were fairly safe from lawmen among their friends and relatives.
Besides Jesse and his brother, Frank, the gang included Jim and Cole Younger, brothers; Robert Moore, whose home was in the Indian territory of Oklahoma; Comanche Tony, a Texan; and Cell Miller. Jesse Woodson James was born September 5, 1847, in Kearney County, Nebraska. Robert Ford, a member of the second James gang, murdered Jesse in his home, April 3, 1882, at the age of 34 years, 6 months, and 28 days.
Ben Goff / The Gazette
James Richard Verone peers through the glass of a visitation booth at the Gaston County Jail Thursday June 16, 2011 where he is being held while awaiting trial for an alleged bank robbery.
This is highway robbery and the politicians are shirking their duties. Is someone on the take? Did the receiver violate his fiduciary duties when he hired an insider to do the work?
This is the system taking advantage of the weak and elderly.
Watch a video on one of the victims here:
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☝️ 'Allowed to rob me.’ How court-appointed receiver resulted in big bills for older homeowner
Leonard Powell, 80, describes in July 2022 how a court-appointed receivership company remodeled his kitchen, unnecessarily he says, resulting in a huge bill that could cost him his home.
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California cities took over their houses, then a private company drove them into debt
Leonard Powell lives in the Berkeley home where he raised six children and worked on a novel with his dying wife. But he barely recognizes the place.
Powell can see that his fireplace is gone, the Redwood wainscoting has been removed and new tiles cover the floor.
And he’s stuck with a $1 million bill for upgrades he didn’t want.
“I’m not denying the house needed work,” Powell said. “But it didn’t need all that.”
He lost control of his house after the city of Berkeley sued him for code violations and asked a judge to appoint a receiver to fix the problems. The company, the Bay Area Receivership Group, then made the decisions about what to renovate and how to do it.
Powell isn’t only paying for home repairs.
Half of the money he owes comes from administrative and legal fees, which ballooned in part as he contested the receivership in court. That’s roughly $500,000 for charges like sending emails, answering phone calls and showing up to court.
The Bay Area Receivership Group operates around Northern California to repair blighted properties at the request of city governments, including Sacramento. The company is supposed to return homes to their owners after fixing the code violations, but its fees can grow so high that the homeowner cannot afford to pay them, according to people whose properties went into receivership. The situation can result in BARG selling the house to pay its own bill, and the homeowner receiving little to no profit.
The company is operating in a little-regulated field — and business is growing.
Records show BARG, a go-to for cities from Fresno to Santa Rosa, routinely charges fees that are not for actual work to fix code violations, but instead for administrative tasks, according to court records The Sacramento Bee reviewed. Those fees can be a normal part of doing business for a receiver, but records show BARG passes more administrative costs on to property owners than comparable companies.
“They bill, bill, bill and there’s no real thorough oversight,” said Stephen Schmid, an attorney for George Goulart, whom BARG in 2018 removed from the Petaluma house his father left him when he died.
The Bee identified 25 cases around Northern California in which the Bay Area Receivership Group took control of a home since 2017. Records in 13 of those cases showed detailed expenses that were passed on to homeowners. The final bill for administrative fees alone averaged $157,000 in those cases.
Two other firms operating in the same region, appointed from 2015 to 2020, charged far less — averages of $27,000 and $11,000. A third company, the California Receivership Group, charged an average of $76,000 in fees for the homes it took over.
To report this story, The Bee analyzed 114 cases across California from six different receivers. Of those, court records showed itemized final bills from cases handled by four different receivers — BARG’s Gerard F. Keena II, Dean Pucci, Dennis Lanni, and California Receivership Group’s Mark S. Adams.
All the cases used to calculate the findings involved single-family houses, duplexes, triplexes or fourplexes. For several cases, The Bee also reviewed hundreds of pages of monthly billing reports, which included itemized charges.
The Bay Area Receivership Group did not respond to requests for comment on The Bee’s findings.
Its leaders in previous news stories have said they’re out to turn a profit while resolving difficult code enforcement complaints that have festered for years.
“Obviously there’s a profit motive, but the people who love you most are the neighbors,” BARG receiver and president Gerard F. Keena II told the Press Democrat of Santa Rosa last year as construction on a condemned house there was ongoing ahead of a planned sale.
In another case, three neighbors of an Oakland house BARG boarded and sold in March said they were thankful the company cleaned up the property. They said it had become a haven for drug dealing and prostitution, as well as a junkyard of tires, propane tanks, forklifts and construction equipment — claims the homeowner denies. After BARG sold the house, the neighbors started planning a celebratory dinner.
“It was a nightmare for all the neighbors,” said one woman who declined to share her name due to fear of retaliation by the previous owner. “When it was sold, it was like ‘hallelujah.’”
In Powell’s case, the city identified multiple code violations, including broken windows, peeling paint, exposed wiring, lack of running water in a bathroom, and work done without city permits.
Records in Powell’s case show that for years, BARG went far beyond the work required to fix the city’s code violations, charging a half-million dollars in fees along the way.
For instance, BARG in March charged Powell $198 for one employee to spend an hour preparing a report detailing the previous month’s charges. In December it charged $102 for another employee, a project manager, to create a spreadsheet for outside attorney Nathaniel Marston. The attorney so far has billed $215,000 — charges that are passed on to Powell.
Powell’s home is in a neighborhood that for decades predominantly had Black homeowners like him. If he’s forced to sell the home and leave, he said it will mark another step in the neighborhood’s gentrification.
“When we moved here in 1974, there was only one Caucasian family on both sides of the street,” Powell said “Now there are only five Black families. … They put these receivers on me, and I didn’t know it was a trend of gentrification. I thought the city was trying to help me out.”
A ‘nuclear option’ for code enforcement
The receivership process is a “last resort” for cities working to address code enforcement problems.
It works like this: Cities, often responding to neighbors’ complaints, declare private properties a nuisance and sue the homeowner. City attorneys will ask a judge to place the house into receivership and recommend the name of a receiver to do so. When the judge agrees, control transfers to private companies that often have a great deal of discretion to decide how much work to do — and how much to charge for it.
It falls to judges, not to a specific state agency, to determine whether to approve the fees. Of the handful of cases for which The Bee reviewed each filing, no judge had rejected a fee.
While some receivers in the state would bill at a flat monthly amount, most, like BARG, allow their employees to charge hourly rates for all time spent on a case, even just a short email or phone call, said Richardson Griswold, a receiver based in San Diego.
“It’s become customary practice, at least in California, that receivers bill and incur charges in the same fashion as law firms do,” said Griswold, who has two active cases in North Sacramento. “Also it’s customary in health and safety receiverships that the judge at the outset of case will approve billing rates of the receiver and his or her team.”
Ryan Griffith, who works as in-house counsel for BARG, gave a presentation at a League of California Cities conference in May in which he taught city officials across the state how to use receivership to “resolve the issues presented with difficult nuisance properties.”
“I do call it the ‘nuclear option,’” Griffith said during a podcast interview earlier this year. “It’s the option of last resort … you really want to be careful because you know you can do it, but there’s obviously going to be some scrutiny over that.”
In one case, BARG charged enormous fees without doing any serious renovation work.
The company charged Linda and Bruce Siegrist of Sacramento three times more in fees than what it spent on doing work on the house.
Linda Siegrist, a double amputee in a wheelchair, so far owes $189,000 to the company, including $142,000 in fees and expenses. Her North Sacramento house, which she grew up in, went into receivership in March 2021.
The company did not renovate her home, according to court documents and Siegrist. It threw away items from the front yard and inside the house, installed smoke detectors, trimmed several large trees and cut down some small trees, Siegrist said.
Most of the fees stem from phone calls, emails, “research,” and short drives that BARG employees made, according to her bills.
In late March, a Bee reporter observed BARG project manager Dan Collins drive from the firm’s Sacramento office to the Siegrists’ home to meet city animal control crews who were checking out the couple’s cats. For the 3-mile drive up Howe Avenue and back, Collins charged the Siegrists $200, according to a court document. The same day, he charged her an additional $250 to walk around the property with a code enforcement officer for less than an hour, and write notes.
On June 13, the firm charged the Siegrists $1,677 for one of the firm’s in-house attorneys to spend six hours drafting court documents. Siegrist hired a paralegal to fight the receivership in court, which has added to the amount BARG bills her, as the firm responds to the paralegal’s filings.
BARG in March also charged Siegrist $742 for employees to read articles about another Sacramento resident in receivership “for insight into media’s potential handling of any press regarding this case,” in addition to other tasks, according to a monthly report that BARG mailed Siegrist.
Wanda Clark of Sacramento blamed the company’s billing practices for driving her out of her Oak Park home.
The city in 2012 cited her for code violations stemming from unfinished construction from when Clark had hired a contractor to build an addition onto her house. The contractor left the project unfinished. The rotting structure posed a risk of collapse, which was a code violation, but Clark still lived in the original house. That part of the house did not have visible code enforcement issues.
The city sued her in 2021, and BARG took over the home through receivership, accumulating $107,000 in fees.
In June 2021, BARG field agent Dalton Hepworth charged Clark $742 to travel from his Bay Area office to Sacramento to inspect the house and drive back, court documents show. Collins charged her $200 each of the seven times he drove 11 miles from the Sacramento office to her house.
“Every time he comes to visit, that’s a cost to you” said Clark. “Everything he does is a cost to you.”
The city earlier this year used taxpayer money to pay BARG’s fees, relieving Clark of that debt. However, the company demolished her home, leaving Clark a vacant lot. She does not have the money to rebuild.
“All I ever wanted to do was keep my house,” said Clark, 72. She now sleeps on her sister’s couch.
Marketing a renovated home
According to state law, court-appointed receivers are supposed to fix code violations issued by cities. Typically, cities give the homeowner years to fix the violations, as neighbors complain frequently, before suing the homeowner and asking a judge to appoint a receiver.
A spokesman for the city of Sacramento called receiverships a “last option.”
“The city’s preference is not to use the receivership process with any property owner,” city spokesman Tim Swanson said in an email. “Ideally, health and safety violations would be addressed immediately by the property owner to alleviate any risk to residents and to the neighborhood. Receiverships are typically the last option to address a dangerous and substandard property where all other options to remedy health and safety violations have been exhausted.”
Code violations are typically visible from the street, and can include things such as overgrown grass, broken down cars and boarded-up windows, or even squatters or drug dealers living in an abandoned property.
State law says: “The receiver shall be discharged when the conditions cited in the notice of violation have been remedied ...”
But cities can choose to expand the scope. When they submit court paperwork to ask for a receiver, city attorneys in San Jose and Fresno have included language to make the property “decent, safe and sanitary.” San Francisco and Elk Grove write that the nuisance must be abated.
Sacramento and Garden Grove go a step further — “decent, safe, sanitary and marketable.”
Once a city asks a judge to appoint a receiver and the judge agrees, the receivers themselves also have the ability to expand the scope, sometimes doing their own inspections and going beyond the code violations.
While Powell and his family stayed in a hotel for about three months, BARG not only fixed the code violations, along with fixing the foundation and mold it had discovered, but did a top-to-bottom remodel — new appliances, new cabinets, new hardwood and tile flooring, a new toilet, and new shower.
Powell, 80, is an Army veteran and needs a cane to walk. Last month, he sat on his stool with his cane by his side in his new kitchen.
“I feel like I’ve been taken advantage of because I didn’t know and had no one to advocate for me,” he said. “Nobody told me what my rights were.”
In Siegrist’s and Clark’s cases, BARG hired Pinnacle Construction, to renovate properties in receivership. Collins, BARG’s project manager, has an ownership interest in Pinnacle, according to court documents BARG filed. In 2019, BARG selected Sterling Realty Group to list an Elk Grove house for sale — another firm where Collins works as a broker. (Emphasis added)
The city’s violations for the Siegrist house were all outdoors — an inoperable vehicle in the driveway, junk and debris in the front yard, blocked exits, overgrown brush and cat feces. But when the court appointed BARG, the company submitted a plan for Pinnacle, the lowest bidder, to perform an $84,000 renovation — adding a wall, increasing the bathroom size, installing a new toilet and hanging vanity, replacing a water heater, and installing all new hardwood floors throughout the house.
Following a Bee story about Siegrist in January, BARG abandoned plans to renovate the house. The city cleared the code violations on April 11, but the Siegrists still owe the company for its fees and work, a bill they say they cannot afford without selling the house or another house they planned to pass on to their daughter and grandchildren.
“I don’t want to give them a cent,” Siegrist, 68, said. “They’re crooks.”
What’s next
Last week, the Berkeley City Council agreed to pay Powell a $95,000 settlement. He still owes over $1 million and counting to BARG.
The city of Sacramento does not plan to pay the Siegrists’ $189,000 BARG bill as it did for Clark, Swanson said, partly because the Siegrists have other assets, including a house in East Sacramento. That “makes her situation different from Clark’s,” Swanson said.
That house, near McKinley Park, is the one the couple was planning to gift to their daughter and grandchildren.
Cities and judges continue to appoint BARG to new cases. The firm was last appointed in March to homeowners in Vallejo and Fremont.
Swanson said the city would closely monitor the Siegrist case and another case BARG is handling in the city. He pointed out receivers have a so-called fiduciary duty.
“The city has issues with any receiver that violates its fiduciary duty,” said Swanson. “A receiver is a fiduciary who, as an officer and representative of the court, acts for the benefit of all persons interested in the property and that includes the property owner.”
Councilman Jay Schenirer, who represents the Oak Park street where Clark’s house was demolished, said if The Bee’s findings are accurate, the city auditor should perform an audit, and the city should stop using BARG.
“If that is all correct then absolutely it would be enough to ask our auditor to take a look at and see if we need to make changes,” said Schenirer, whose term expires in December.
When The Bee first reported on Siegrist in January, Councilman Sean Loloee, who represents her neighborhood, said he would bring an item to the council’s Law & Legislation Committee urgently to create a fund for seniors to pay for home repairs to avoid receivership. Nine months later, that has not happened. Loloee met with the Siegrists but then stopped calling them back, Siegrist said.
Through a spokeswoman, Loloee said he is now deferring to the city manager and city attorney on receivership-related matters.
Clark, Powell and Siegrist want Sacramento and other cities to sever ties with BARG. In addition, state lawmakers should amend the receivership law to add oversight and ensure companies cannot take advantage of homeowners, Powell said.
“If your goal is to not make anybody homeless and your goal is to help these people, then those are the kind of companies you should have,” Clark said. “Not someone who is looking out for their own interest.”
Read the original article on the Sacramento Bee website at:
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A new report from the Sacramento Bee says the politicians are finally doing something. What took them so long?
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Amid Bee investigation, Sacramento opens review of company appointed to code enforcement cases
The city of Sacramento initiated a review for receivers it recommends to take over properties in serious code enforcement disputes following questions from The Sacramento Bee that exposed high fees one of the companies passes on to homeowners.
BERKELEY CHANGED RECEIVERSHIP POLICY
After Berkeleyside first reported Powell’s story, the Berkeley City Council adopted a policy in 2019 requiring council approval prior to the city filing a receivership petition in court against a property owner, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin said.
Kendra Lewis, executive director of the Sacramento Housing Alliance, said Sacramento should follow Berkeley’s lead and require council approval for all receivership cases.
Two criminals photographed during a cash machine robbery. They were intially caught and arrested by Police but have since 'jumped bail' and have absconded.
If you see them do not approach as they are highly dangerous - instead phone Police or Crimestoppers immediately.
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History of Billy Miner:
Ezra Allen Miner (c.1847 – Sept.2, 1913), more popularly known as Bill Miner, was a noted American bandito, originally from Bowling Green, Kentucky, who served several prison terms for stagecoach robbery.
Known for his unusual politeness while committing robberies, he was widely nicknamed the Grey Fox, Gentleman Robber or the Gentleman Bandit.
Miner was born Ezra Allen Miner in Vevay Township, near Onondaga, Ingham County, Michigan on December 27, 1846. He never legally changed his first name (which he evidently didn't like), but regarded William Allen Miner as his true name throughout most of his life.
He was arrested for the first time in 1866 in San Joaquin County, California and served time there. He was shortly released but served more time at Placer County, California and later at Calaveras County, California. He was discharged in 1880. He then formed a partnership with Bill Leroy (as W. A. Morgan) to rob a stagecoach. Leroy was caught and lynched, but Miner escaped. He was later caught for another robbery in Tuolumne County, California and was released from San Quentin in 1901.
After his third prison term, Miner moved to the province of British Columbia in Canada, where he adopted the pseudonym George Edwards and is believed to have staged British Columbia's first-ever train robbery on September 10, 1904 at Silverdale about 35 km east of Vancouver, just west of Mission City.
It is often claimed that Miner was the robber, but neither he nor his accomplices were ever tied conclusively to the Silverdale heist. It is also widely reported that Silverdale's train robbery was the first in Canada, but Peter Grauer's definitive study ("Interred With Their Bones", 2005) cites a train robbery in Port Credit, Ontario 30 years prior as the first.
Miner was eventually caught after a botched payroll train robbery near Kamloops at Monte Creek (then known as "Ducks"). Choosing the wrong car, they managed only to rob $15 plus a bottle of kidney pills that Miner picked up off of a shelf. Miner and his two accomplices, Tom "Shorty" Dunn and Louis Colquhoun, were located near Douglas Lake, British Columbia after an extensive manhunt.
A posse surrounded them while they were lunching in the woods. Miner presented himself as George Edwards and claimed that he and his cohorts were prospectors. The officer in charge of the posse suspected he had encountered the nefarious train-robbing gang and challenged the claim, putting them under arrest
Dunn attempted to fire at the police and was shot in the leg. He gave up quickly after being wounded. Colquhoun was disarmed by an officer standing nearby and Miner never drew his weapon. Miner's arrest and subsequent trial in Kamloops caused a media spectacle. Apparently the most damning evidence against him was the bottle of kidney pills that Miner had picked up during the Ducks robbery.
Upon his conviction, he, Dunn and Colquhoun were transported by train to the provincial penitentiary in New Westminster. By that time, Miner's celebrity status had risen to the point that the tracks were reputedly lined with throngs of supporters, many of whom expressed satisfaction with the fact that someone had taken the very unpopular CPR to task.
While serving time in the B.C. Penitentiary, Miner escaped in 1907 and was never recaptured in Canada. He moved back to the United States, becoming once again involved in robberies in the South at Gainesville in 1909
There, he served more prison time, and escaped twice.He died in the prison farm at Milledgeville, Georgia, of gastritis, contracted from drinking brackish water during his previous escape attempt.
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The Postcard
A postally unused briefkaart that was published by the Dr. Trenkler Co. of Leipzig. The divided back of the card has been hand-stamped with an ellipse containing the following message:
"Postcards & Postmarks Library
Skegness, Lincs.
16th. July 1976.
Always Purchasing Before 1930,
Send Samples & S.A.E. for Cash
Offer".
There are many postcards showing Dutch women and girls on this photostream, and they are almost invariably shown knitting.
Where boys are also present, they are usually shown wearing very baggy trousers and smoking a pipe, which would certainly not be allowed today.
Marken
Marken is a village in the municipality of Waterland in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It had a population of 1,770 as of 2019, and it occupies a peninsula in the Markermeer.
Marken was formerly an island in the Zuiderzee, although it is now connected to the mainland of North Holland by a causeway. The characteristic wooden houses of Marken are a tourist attraction.
For some time during the later 19th. and early 20th. centuries, Marken and its inhabitants were the focus of considerable attention by folklorists, ethnographers and physical anthropologists, who regarded the small fishing town as a relic of the traditional native culture that was destined to disappear as modernisation of the Netherlands gained pace.
Among them were Johann Friedrich Blumenbach who examined a human skull from the island which he called Batavus Genuinus. Another was the Belgian painter Xavier Mellery who stayed in Marken at the request of Charles De Coster. Mellery was asked to create illustrative artwork and delivered several intimist works.
Cornelis Lely's designs incorporated the island into a proposed Markerwaard. A partial dike, built in 1941 in the north, is the first phase of that project which was stopped by World War II.
In 1983, the Marken Museum about the history of the island was opened.
A French Bank Robbery
So what else happened on the day that the card was hand-stamped?
Well, on Friday the 16th. July 1976, Albert Spaggiari and his gang broke into the vault of the Société Générale Bank in Nice, France and robbed its contents undetected during the weekend.
Albert Spaggiari (14th. December 1932 – 8th. June 1989), nicknamed Bert, was a French criminal.
At the age of 19, he enlisted as a paratrooper in the First Indochina War, and was posted to the 3rd. Battalion colonial paratroopers. During this time, he and a few accomplices put a gun to the head of someone that they claimed had robbed them. The military court, however, believed that this was actually a stickup, and Spaggiari spent the next four years in jail.
The Bank Robbery in Nice
When Spaggiari heard that the sewers were close to the vault of the Société Générale bank in Nice, he began to plan a break-in into the bank by digging into the bank vault from below. Spaggiari rented a box in the bank vault for himself and put a loud alarm clock in the vault.
He set the clock to ring at night to check for any acoustic or seismic detection gear. In fact, there were no alarms protecting the vault because it was considered impenetrable: the door wall was extremely thick, and there was no obvious way to access the other walls.
Spaggiari's men made their way into the sewers and spent two months digging an eight-metre-long (26 ft) tunnel from the sewer to the vault floor. Spaggiari had taken many precautions during this long dig while his men worked long hours continuously drilling. He told them not to drink coffee or alcohol, and to get at least ten hours of sleep every shift to avoid any danger to the mission.
On the 16th. July 1976, during the long weekend of Bastille Day, Spaggiari's gang broke into the vault itself. They opened 400 safe deposit boxes and stole an estimated 12 million dollars worth of money, securities and valuables. It was the largest heist in the history of bank robberies to that date.
According to some accounts, Spaggiari brought his men a meal including wine and pâté, and reportedly they sat down in the vault for a picnic lunch, after welding the vault door shut from the inside.
The gang spent hours picking through the various safe deposit boxes. Before they departed they left a message on the walls of the vault: Sans Armes, Ni Haine, Ni Violence (Without Weapons, Hatred, or Violence).
Capture and Escape
At first the French police were baffled. However, by the end of October, they were closing in, and on a tip from a former girlfriend, they arrested one of the thieves. After a lengthy interrogation he sang like a canary, and implicated the entire gang, including Spaggiari.
When Spaggiari, who had been accompanying the mayor of Nice in the Far East as a photographer, returned to Nice, he was arrested at the airport.
Spaggiari chose Jacques Peyrat, a veteran of the French Foreign Legion, as his defence attorney. Spaggiari at first denied his involvement in the break-in, then acknowledged it but claimed that he was working to fund a secret political organization named Catena (Italian for "Chain") that seems to have existed only in his fantasy.
During his case hearings, Spaggiari devised an escape plan. He made a fictitious document which he claimed as evidence. He made the document coded so it had to be deciphered by the judge.
While the judge was distracted by the document, Spaggiari jumped out of a window, landing safely on a car that just happened to be parked beneath the window, and escaped on a waiting motorcycle. Some reports said that the owner of the car later received a 5,000-franc cheque in the mail for the damage to his roof.
In 1995, Jacques Peyrat accused Christian Estrosi, French minister and former motorcycle champion, of having been Spaggiari's driver, but Estrosi proved that he had been racing in Daytona Beach, Florida, at the time.
Life in Hiding
Spaggiari remained free for the rest of his life, even though he was was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment. He is reported to have had plastic surgery, and to have spent probably most of the rest of his life in Argentina, visiting France clandestinely to see his mother or his wife.
Spaggiari was said to have died under "mysterious circumstances". His body was reported to have been found by his mother in front of her home on the 10th. June 1989, having been carried back to France by unknown friends.
However it now seems well established that his wife Emilia was with him when he died of lung cancer on the 8th. June 1989, in a country house in Belluno, Italy. He was 56 when he died.
Emilia drove his body from Italy to Hyères and lied to the police—unauthorised transport of a corpse is a criminal offence in both Italy and France.
None of the proceeds of the robbery were ever found.
The 1976 Summer Olympics
Also on that day. the African nation of Nigeria began a walkout of teams from the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
It withdrew its 45 Olympic athletes to protest against New Zealand's "continued collaboration with racist South Africa."
Taiwan also withdrew its team in protest, because the International Olympic Committee would not allow it to compete under the name "Republic of China", or to fly its national flag or play its anthem in the event of a medal award.
The Canadian government had initially said that it would not allow the 43 athletes from Taiwan to participate in the Olympics because of the presence of the People's Republic of China, but reversed the decision after protests, and offered to allow participation on the condition that the country not identify itself as the Republic of China.
Carmelo Soria
The 16th. July 1976 also marked the death at the age of 54 of Carmelo Soria, Spanish-born Chilean dissident and United Nations diplomat.
He had been using his diplomatic immunity status to arrange asylum for endangered Chileans in foreign embassies.
Carmelo was found dead, two days after he had been kidnapped and tortured.
Demis Roussos
Also on that day, the Number One chart record in the UK was 'Forever and Ever' by Demis Roussos.
"When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me," Verone wrote in the letter. "This robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body."
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Some people who need medical care but can't afford it go to the emergency room. Others just hope they'll get better. James Richard Verone robbed a bank.
Earlier this month, Verone (pictured), a 59-year-old convenience store clerk, walked into a Gaston, N.C., bank and handed the cashier a note demanding $1 and medical attention. Then he waited calmly for police to show up.
He's now in jail and has an appointment with a doctor this week.
Verone's problems started when he lost the job he'd held for 17 years as a Coca Cola deliveryman, amid the economic downturn. He found new work driving a truck, but it didn't last. Eventually, he took a part-time position at the convenience store.
But Verone's body wasn't up to it. The bending and lifting made his back ache. He had problems with his left foot, making him limp. He also suffered from carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis.
Then he noticed a protrusion on his chest. "The pain was beyond the tolerance that I could accept," Verone told the Gaston Gazette. "I kind of hit a brick wall with everything."
Verone knew he needed help--and he didn't want to be a burden on his sister and brothers. He applied for food stamps, but they weren't enough either.
So he hatched a plan. On June 9, he woke up, showered, ironed his shirt. He mailed a letter to the Gazette, listing the return address as the Gaston County Jail.
"When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me," Verone wrote in the letter. "This robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body."
Then Verone hailed a cab to take him to the RBC Bank. Inside, he handed the teller his $1 robbery demand.
"I didn't have any fears," said Verone. "I told the teller that I would sit over here and wait for police."
The teller was so frightened that she had to be taken to the hospital to be checked out. Verone, meanwhile, was taken to jail, just as he'd planned it.
Because he only asked for $1, Verone was charged with larceny, not bank robbery. But he said that if his punishment isn't severe enough, he plans to tell the judge that he'll do it again. His $100,000 bond has been reduced to $2,000, but he says he doesn't plan to pay it.
In jail, Verone said he skips dinner to avoid too much contact with the other inmates. He's already seen some nurses and is scheduled to see a doctor on Friday. He said he's hoping to receive back and foot surgery, and get the protrusion on his chest treated. Then he plans to spend a few years in jail, before getting out in time to collect Social Security and move to the beach.
Verone also presented the view that if the United States had a health-care system which offered people more government support, he wouldn't have had to make the choice he did.
"If you don't have your health you don't have anything," Verone said.
The Affordable Care Act, President Obama's health-care overhaul passed by Congress last year, was designed to make it easier for Americans in situations like Verone's to get health insurance. But most of its provisions don't go into effect until 2014.
As it is, Verone said he thinks he chose the best of a bunch of bad options. "I picked jail."
(Photo: Ben Goff/The Gaston Gazette)
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Assez foncé pour un tirage Keystone que beaucoup préfèrent même s'ils sont postérieurs à la première publication et souvent non daté !
Justement pour leur équilibrage.
La saison n'aide pas non plus... Je n'ai pas dit le pays !
La terre tournant autour de nous forcement qu'il y a un moment ou ces rayons touche l’Angleterre?
Le tablier de la nourrice a des zones blanches diffusantes, utilisaient-ils déjà des réflecteurs ?
J'en doute, les photographes devaient déjà être assez chargé !
Autant l'uniforme me laisse de glace et je n'ai jamais compris cette attirance.
( Time are changin'. Jeune l'uniforme d'une manière générale était synonyme d'adjectifs peu reluisant, puis dans les années 90 il recommença à attirer ? )
Autant cet astucieux bec verseur de lait devrait intéresser les plus bricoleurs ( eusse) d'entre vous...
Dark enough for a Keystone print that many prefer even if they are posterior to the first publication and often undated!
Precisely for their balancing.
The season doesn’t help either...
I didn’t say the country!
The earth revolving around us necessarily that there is a time when these rays touch England .
The nurse’s apron has white scattering areas, did they ever use reflectors?
I doubt it, the photographers must have been loaded enough already!
As much the uniform leaves me with ice and I never understood this attraction. ( Time are changin'; Young the uniform in a general way was synonymous with adjectives not very glossy, then in the 90s it began to attract ? )
As much this clever milk spout should interest the most DIY enthusiasts among you ...
Staff Sgt. Eddie Peoples, a section sergeant assigned to the 386th Movement Control Team, 14th Transportation Battalion, 16th Sustainment Brigade, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, stationed in Vicenza, Italy, detained a suspect who had allegedly just committed a bank robbery and held him until the police arrived May 13 outside a local bank in Sarasota, Fla, while he was home visiting family on leave. Pictured here, Peoples poses for a photo while deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Army Photo)
21st TSC Soldier stops bank robbery while on leave
386th MCT sergeant deemed hero by local residents in Sarasota
Story by Sgt. Maj. Cameron Porter, 21st TSC Public Affairs
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – A section sergeant from the 16th Sustainment Brigade, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, stationed in Vicenza, Italy, has been deemed a hero.
While visiting family members in Sarasota, Fla., on leave, Staff Sgt. Eddie Peoples from the 386th Movement Control Team, detained a suspect who had allegedly just committed a bank robbery and held him until the police arrived.
On the afternoon of May 13, Peoples and his two children stopped at a local bank in Sarasota. While he was there with his children, the suspect who has been charged with armed robbery and is being detained by local authorities, entered the bank, demanded money from bank employees and left with an undetermined amount of cash.
Peoples, who watched the whole situation transpire, said he knew he could not stand by. He had to do something.
“He waved the gun at one of my children. So after he walked out of the bank, I followed him out,” said Peoples, speaking with a local television station reporter in the parking lot of the bank after the entire ordeal.
After leaving his children with some innocent bystanders inside the bank, Peoples quickly went outside, jumped in his rental car and pulled up behind the suspect’s getaway car, blocking him in. After ramming Peoples’ car several times, the suspect jumped out of his car and approached Peoples, brandishing his weapon. Peoples remained undeterred.
“I’ve been through five deployments. I’ve fought the Muqtada militia (in Iraq), everybody you can think of, so weapons getting pointed at me, it doesn't really bother me anymore,” Peoples said. “I took the weapon away from him and put him on the ground and the rest was history.”
Peoples held the suspect down until local authorities arrived on the scene. Deputies arrested the man, and Peoples went back inside the bank to retrieve his children.
“Every time I get deployed, I always tell my children I’m going to fight the bad men. When I walked back in the bank, my oldest boy said ‘did you get the bad men?’ and I said ‘yep, I got the bad men’ and everyone applauded,” Peoples said.
“We were surprised by what happened, but not really shocked,” said Capt. Jedmund Greene, the commander of the 386th Movement Control Team, 14th Transportation Battalion, 16th Sust. Bde., 21st TSC. “Defending his kids and other people – that’s what he does on a daily basis. He’s taken an oath to protect his country, and he saw an event taking place and reacted in the interest of protecting his children and people who he didn’t even know.”
“Peoples is a great (noncommissioned officer) to work with, and he’s always at the front doing what he needs to do to take care of the troops, said Staff Sgt. Chad Mitchell, 386th MCT detachment sergeant. “Just like this situation in Florida, if there is something he feels he needs to stop and take care of, if he feels that something isn’t right, he’s going to step in.”
The Sarasota Police Department presented a commendation medal to Peoples later that day for his selfless actions in the face of danger.
CCTV Captures Convenience Store Robbery
We are seeking public assistance to identify two men who robbed a convenience store at gunpoint, injuring an employee and a customer in the process.
At approximately 3:45 a.m., today, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, two men entered a convenience store located in the 7200 block of Ogden Road S.E. One of the men, armed with a firearm, assaulted a customer and a store employee. The culprits obtained an undisclosed quantity of money and merchandise before fleeing from the store.
Both the clerk and customer were treated by EMS for minor injuries and released.
The first man is described as black, with a heavy build. He was wearing sweatpants, a black Adidas jacket with a black and yellow Rock Star vest over top.
The second man is described as dark skinned, possibly of East Indian descent. He was wearing a blue sweater, grey sweatpants and had a black bandana.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact police at 403-266-1234, or Crime Stoppers anonymously using any of the following methods:
TALK: 1-800-222-8477
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The police managed to arrest two criminals after the robbery of several apartments in a building in the Palermo neighborhood. Palermo, Argentina 05-17-2020
Regional agreement on maritime piracy to broaden scope to other illicit activity
An international agreement that has been instrumental in repressing piracy and armed robbery against ships in the western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden is set to significantly broaden its scope.
Signatories to the Djibouti Code of Conduct have agreed to work towards extending its remit to address other illicit maritime activity that threatens safety and security in the region, such as marine terrorism, environmental crimes, human trafficking and Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
National focal points for the code, which was adopted under the auspices of the IMO in 2009,
have adopted a resolution expressing concern at the increasing risks from transnational organized crimes at sea and other threats to maritime safety and security in the region. They agreed to encourage information sharing on all illicit activities.
Training and other capacity-building activities implemented under the auspices of the Djibouti Code of Conduct have been credited with contributing to the reduction of piracy in the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden, alongside the efforts of merchant ships to implement IMO guidance and best management practices, naval forces continuing to deter and disrupt pirate activities and States continuing to prosecute suspected pirates and increasing their maritime law-enforcement capabilities.
But the focal points recognized that piracy in the region has merely been suppressed and its root causes have yet to be addressed. They agreed that, nonetheless, there is now a window of opportunity for IMO Member States in the region to implement capacity-building programmes to prevent a resurgence of piracy and to address wider maritime security issues, as a basis for sustainable development of the maritime sector.
The focal points were meeting this week (11-12 November) in the newly-completed Djibouti Regional Training Centre, which was formally opened by Mr. Moussa Ahmed Hassan, Djibouti’s Minister of Equipment and Transport, on Thursday 12 November. The Djibouti Regional Training Centre will play a key role in regional capacity-building initiatives under the Code of Conduct.
IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu, speaking by video message during the ceremony, encouraged the Government of Djibouti to be imaginative in its use of the new building and to be proactive in maximizing its potential, for the benefit of the whole region. The centre could be used as a venue for wider port, maritime, law-enforcement or indeed any other training, conferences and meetings, as well as being a centre of excellence for regional maritime security training, he said.
“This impressive new centre will be a vital component in the provision of maritime security and other training in the Gulf of Aden and Western Indian Ocean area and fully supports IMO’s 2015 World Maritime Day theme: “Maritime education and training”. It should be an asset to Djibouti and to the region for many years to come,” Mr. Sekimizu said.
The national focal points meeting also approved the 2016 plan for regional training for Djibouti Code of Conduct countries.
Construction of the Djibouti Regional Training Centre was funded by Japan, through the Djibouti Code Trust Fund, with equipment provided by Denmark and the Republic of Korea.
IMO continues to support Member States to implement the Djibouti Code of Conduct through its Integrated Technical Cooperation Programme (ITCP) and through the Djibouti Code Trust Fund. It also maintains a presence in the region, focussed on the code, with two staff members based in Nairobi, Kenya, whose primary role is training.
The opening ceremony was also attended by Mr. Chris Trelawny, Special Advisor to the IMO Secretary-General; His Excellency Tatsuo Arai, Ambassador of Japan to the Republic of Djibouti; His Excellency Joseph Silva, European Union Ambassador to Djibouti, Mr. Hassan Darar Houffaneh, Minister of Defence of Djibouti; Mr. Ali Mirah Chehem Daoud, Director of Maritime Affairs of Djibouti; Ms. Mina Houssein Doualeh, Director of the Djibouti Regional Training Centre; as well as senior government officials from Djibouti. Also present were representatives from Somalia and from Djibouti Code of Conduct signatories, donor countries and international training partners.
Djibouti code of conduct
The Code of Conduct concerning the Repression of Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden (the Djibouti Code of Conduct) provides a framework for capacity building in the Gulf of Aden and Western Indian Ocean to counter the threat of piracy. The Code was signed on 29 January 2009 by the representatives of: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Maldives, Seychelles, Somalia, the United Republic of Tanzania and Yemen. Comoros, Egypt, Eritrea, Jordan, Mauritius, Mozambique, Oman, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates have since signed, bringing the total to 20 countries. Since its adoption, the Code has become the major focus for facilitating transnational communication, coordination and cooperation in its four thematic broad pillars: delivering national and regional training, enhancing national legislation, information sharing and building counter-piracy capacity.
Sensational jewel theft, Sydney, 15 June 1934 : In the 'most sensational jewel robbery for years', an armed bandit threw a brick through the window of Angus and Coote's shop in George Street, took &5,000 worth of diamond rings and left a trail of diamonds to his getaway car.
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We need to speak with the people in these people regarding a series of recent robberies.
Anyone with information on the identities of these individuals, or on the incidents themselves is asked to call us at 403-266-1234 or Crime Stoppers anonymously using any of the following methods:
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Description from the back - "It seems that every trip the old steam locomotive, Bell Starr, is halted by a gang of daring robbers, probably the infamous Alf Bolin gang. Armed guards ride the train but you'd better hold on to your valuables folks!"
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