Nation: Crate Idea for a Caper

"Freeze, man!" Night Watchman Charles Taylor, who had been patrolling the second floor of the First National Bank in Palm Beach, Fla., quickly obeyed the shouted order, as well as instructions to hand over his keys and stand in a side room while the black-shirted, black-gloved intruder escaped. When polive arrived on that night in late April, they found no sign that anything was missing from the room — a locked storage area in which socialites stash their artworks, silver and other valuables while they are away from home.

Last week police said, the...

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