CRIME: A Cup of Coffee

By the time armored Bank Truck No. 512 stopped at the First National Bank in Danvers, Mass. (pop. 15,000) one warm spring morning last week, its three-man crew was ready to knock off for a cup of coffee. Collecting bags of money is essentially as dull as collecting bags of laundry —the crew, in fact, referred to the Danvers trip as the "laundry run," since they were picking up $320,000 in worn and dirty bills which were to be cleaned or destroyed by the Government. Then, too, they had been on the road more than three hours, had made...

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