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Boy burglars
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Grinnell Stories blog by Dan Kaiser
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Alvin Case, Lester Lamb
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Burglary
Post title: “Boy Burglars” in Grinnell
Date published: August 19, 2017
Link to blog post: https://grinnellstories.blogspot.com/2017/08/boy-burglars-in-grinnell.html
Drake Library Archive Digital File Name: Grinnell Stories/2017-08-19 Boy Burglars
Summary: Kaiser describes two of Grinnell’s “boy burglars,” a term the populated Iowa newspapers in the early twentieth century, and their divergent adulthoods. After Alvin Case was arrested in 1911 at age fourteen, he lived a quieter life in Newton with his wife and children. After Lester Lamb’s arrest in 1917 at age fourteen, he took on the alias Mark Blair and was arrested again in Los Angeles in 1932 on a charge of forgery.
207 Main Street, Grinnell, IA, USA
207 Second Avenue, Grinnell, IA, USA
538 Spring Street, Grinnell, IA, USA
705 Fourth Avenue, Grinnell, IA, USA
810 Park Street, Grinnell, IA, USA
American Express Company, Grinnell, IA, USA
Bailey, Ethel
Blair, Mark
Case, Alvin
Case, George
Case, Harry
Case, Keith
Case, Kenneth
Case, Louella (Ella)
Case, Norman
Case, Richard
Case, Virgil
Hockett, Arthur J.
Hockett and Elliott Hardware Store, Grinnell, IA, USA
Lamb, Garland
Lamb, Lester (Mark Blair)
Lamb, Maggie
Lamb, Ralph
Lamb, Raymond
Rogers, Irene
York, Minnie