Stout and bearded, he could be typecast, like Gould, Morgan, and Vanderbilt, as a robber baron.
In 2004, Springbok rugby player Rudi Visagie shot dead his 19-year-old daughter Marle after mistaking her for a robber trying to steal his car in the middle of the night.
Barrett then shrugged when Maher tried to pin him down on whether Gates is a robber baron or a victim of an unfair investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
It's "the old Jack Benny thing, " Justice Scalia said, invoking the joke where a robber holds up the famously stingy comedian and says, " 'Your money or your life, ' and, you know, he says, 'I'm thinking, I'm thinking, ' " Justice Scalia said.
You would not allow a bank robber to continue robbing a bank for 18 months.
It's no wonder the public rallied to support a colorful robber who fired his pistol only a handful of times, and never at anything but inanimate objects or the air.
If a bank robber begins shooting at the police while making a getaway, the police are fully authorized to fire back with intent to kill.
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To identify a bank robber, prosecutors in Connecticut obtained records for 169 phones in 2009 without a search warrant.
Not to be outdone, retired police officer Roosevelt Snipes bragged of nabbing a legendary robber.
Dr Hamlen offers the analogy of a bank robber with an unlimited supply of ski masks.
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"The last thing a bank robber wants is to be noticed, " says W. Douglas Johnson, head of security policy analysis at the American Bankers Association.
Police are hunting a would-be robber who targeted a man who had deposited money in a bank's night safe.
Last year, a suspected armed robber tried to escape by leaping into the gorilla pen at the Johannesburg Zoo.
Ben Affleck directed this new thriller, co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Craig and Aaron Stockard, and stars as Doug MacRay, a seasoned bank robber.
Mr Donoghue said further investigations into Huckerby's telephone records pointed to an address in Manchester which was known to have links with a convicted armed robber.
George Clooney, a kindly bank robber, breaks out of jail and into the life of Karen Cisco (Jennifer Lopez), who is, if you are prepared to believe it, a U.S. marshal.
It means that when you're ripping around the Italian countryside like a fleeing bank robber, with the Huayra's turbo wastegates exploding, tearing the veil with the sound of angels having a mid-air collision, there is somehow a deft, invisible finger holding the car to the pavement.
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There certainly seems to be no shortage of believers, including Doug Preston, whose novel "The Codex" about a notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber who buries himself and his treasure as a final challenge to his three sons, is loosely based on Fenn's story.
Carr, who spent five years studying bank robberies and interviewing crooks, argues that a warm greeting to a would-be robber eliminates psychological "trigger points"--confidence, anonymity, control over his fear--that the robber needs to go ahead with the crime.
In the second tier, the hustler class of new-money industrialists produced a first generation of Robber Barons, and then an asymmetric balance of power between bankers and second-generation hustlers who aspired to Robber Baron level fortunes (egged on by Horatio Alger narratives), but ended up as the tame new middle class.
Dr. SKRAPEC SYNC: Right now if there is a criminal like a serial killer or bank robber, they are able to print in the code, 'cos each face you make has a particular code, a number for the eyebrows and a number for the nostril.
Two more men have been arrested after an armed robber was chased from a Dorset bank by a passer-by.
BBC: Two further arrests after Poole HSBC armed bank robbery
Police said one robber threatened staff with a "large bladed weapon" at Eric N Smith jewellers on Ayr Road, in Newton Mearns, at about 14:30 on Saturday.
It's been 75 years since federal agents gunned down John Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, but the bank robber continues to be a provocative figure in American history.
The so-called robber barons were unapologetically raking in a huge percentage of the national wealth.
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On top of the industrial backbone created during the Robber Baron era, they manufactured a new normal for the masses.
The prisons ombudsman, Stephen Shaw, has recently ruled that two prisoners, Michael Sams, a murderer, and Rifat Mehmet, an armed robber, should not have been allocated to Woodhill and has called for their cases to be reviewed.
On the other side stand the lesson of history (even the robber barons' generosity did not avert a backlash) and the fact that few of the new rich seem to be aware that they are doing anything questionable at all.
Armed police, a helicopter and dog units assisted in pursuit of the robber.
BBC: Two further arrests after Poole HSBC armed bank robbery
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