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Sunday, March 21, 2010 - 4:00 PM
In the summer of 1920, Panzram spent a great deal of time in the
city of New Haven, Connecticut. He preferred places with activity and
lots of people. More people meant more targets, more money and more
victims. It also meant the cops were busy; maybe too busy to bother with
the likes of him. He went out at night, cruising the city streets
looking for an easy mark. If Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire didn't mug an unsuspecting drunk or rape
a young boy, he would look for a house to burglarize. In August, he
found a house located at 113 Whitney Avenue that looked "fat" and ready
for the taking. It was an old three-story colonial, the home of an
aristocrat, he hoped. He broke in through a window and began to ransack
the bedrooms. Inside a spacious den, Panzram found a large amount of
jewelry, bonds and a .45 caliber automatic handgun. The name on the
bonds was "William H. Taft," the same man who he thought sentenced him
to three years at Leavenworth in 1907. At that time, Taft had been the
secretary of war. In 1920, he was the former president of the United
States and current professor of law at Yale University in New Haven.
After stealing everything he could carry, Panzram escaped through the
same window and hit the streets carrying a large bag of loot.
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