Eventually, Gates and his driver forced the door open from the outside, Ogletree said.

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To the left is a white Chevrolet with the driver's door open and someone sitting behind the wheel.

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Myers' daughter, seeing that the driver left the car door open, went over and peered inside to see personal items that included what looked like a bundle of cash in reality, a dollar bill wrapped around pieces of newspaper.

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Had Gates been a white professor trying to get inside his home, and called on his driver to help him jar his door open, he probably wouldn't have as readily aroused the suspicion of neighbors.

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Not far from home, the door to the carriage flew open, and when the driver dismounted to secure it the horses bolted.

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He said the driver's door on his brother's Mazda stuck and was difficult to open, and he advised him to take the car back to Halesowen where friends could fix it for him.

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Fran pays the driver, while Liz, in back, unbuckles Caroline and Matilda, leaning over them to push open the door.

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