Imitating Crime on Films and in Novels In trying to commit a burglary as. they had seen it done at a cinema, three boys were very nearly concerned in murder. When one had been ordered to be sent to a reformatory and the others had ceived suspended sentences, they. declared their intention of going straight, because they had found-that "'the dime novel stuff and the movies are all wrong."
The boys are Billy Huhn (17). Teddy Holhkeep (16), and Harry Katz (15). Anton Diehl, a marble cutter, who lodged with Teddy's aunt, is alleged to have asked them how they would like to make a "little haul," and to have promised: them £4 if they would get some papers which his father-in-law kept, together with £40, in a box under his bed.
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