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Superthief's List of Prospects(Continued From Page 1.)Clinton H. Anderson, who ques* need of funds and asked her to tioned Miss Ritchie on Dennis’ seU ajpair of diamond earringsmethods, described him as un-j °^hcn‘ ghe tricd to scll thGm, doubtedly one of the greatest earrjngS were recognized asburglars who ever operated. PROSPECTS LISTEDThe handsome thief, whoSHOP TONIGI ■TIL 9 P. M[•;1.1ti!stolen property. Although Dennis had fled irom the Greenwich Village apartment where he was i living, the girl was able to fur-passed as a wealthy playboy or;nish p0]jce with his picture. Ita minor movie actor, commuted i was posted throughout the coun-by air from one wealthy su-jtry and cvcntualy led to his cap-burban area to another to com- i*urc' .mit his burglaries, detectives! said.In a notebook found in the Beverly Hills apartment, Dennis had listed the names of intended victims and notations on their homes and habits. Among them were such notables as Louis B..Mayer, Lady Thelma Furness,;Mrs. Henry Kaiser Jr., Actress!June Haver and Mrs. Philip]Wrigley. IA list of 20 prominent actors and motion picture executives was found on a piece of paper in his pocket. It contained such names as Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor,Bette Davis, Edgar Bergen, Olivia de Haviland, Kay Francis, Dorothy Lamour, Harold Lloyd, Ginger Rogers and Mary Pickford.Police estimated that the debonair Dennis' loot in recent j years had topped the $1,000,000] mark.The Federal Bureau of Investigation has ordered that he be! questioned concerning the larg-' est jewelry store robbery in a decade, -the $481,195 burglary last week end of the Schwarz-child jewelry store in Richmond,Va.PHOTO RECOGNIZEDDennis, a Canadian, was trapped in Cleveland because a friend who had gone with him on fishing trips happened to recognize bis photograph in a police |brochure. The friend, also a Ca-jnadian, helped police lure the iwily jewel thief into a trap.[When captured he had with him i$35,000 worth of jewels and $1435 Sin cash. He readily admitted a series of robberies in the past three years in Westchester County.Detectives said that Dennis prided himself in being able to dispose of his own loot by posing as a legitimate jewel salesman and taking the jewelry to unsuspecting shops, thereby getting better prices than he could have obtained from underworld fences.However, detectives said they had incriminating evidence from Dennis on two fences in Chicago, one in Beverly Hills and one in New York. Julius Bruck. 24. a jeweler, was arrested in Beverly iHills on charges of receiving stolen property from the jewel thief.JOBS LISTEDAmong the robberies he is charged with in Southern California are the $285,000 burglary of the Bel-Air winter home of Dick Winans, of Newport. R. I.;$30,000 from the Palm Springs bungalow of oilman William D.Dohcny, and $37,000 from Mrs.Norman Winston of New York at the Beverly Hills home of Mrs.Green Walker.His burglaries and robberies in Westchester County amounted to more than $200,000, police said, and he is believed to have operated in other places where the j rich gather. IDistrict Attorney George M..Fanelli. of Westchester County. (:aid Dennis once maintained a avish summer residence on Cor-ie!l Place in Rye, N, Y. He said ennis was noted for making his. get-aways from burglaries by; stealing the victim’s pwn automo-jilf. He sometimes wore a mask me; usually carried a gun, unlike his fictional counterpart ■Raffles.”SIUL GAVE TIPOFFIt was through a girl, a beautiful dark-haired model, that police first got on the trail of the elusive Dennis. He met the girl Gloria Horowitz, in a New York cocktail bar in July. 194.He told Miss Horowitz he was a wealthy Canadian, but that he happened to be momentarily inS ja
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