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Post Office Crime-Spotting Confessions and Missing Faces
A narrator recalls memorizing criminals on posters, detailing Emmett Rilke and Loft Bjorness. He jokes about cashing in rewards for securities and cemetery lots and recalls bungled pursuits at the Sarasota post office in the 1920s with the d Autremont brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmett Rilke
George Thurman
George Miller
Emmett Ritke
Loft Bjorness
Rilke
McLemore
Lou Bjorness
Brorness
FBI
Sarasota
Florida
d’Autremont Brothers