Journal-American, New York, NY
State: NY
American Rifleman Issue: 11/1/1960
In October 1958 THE RIFLEMAN reported Charles Di Maggio’s wounding of a robber after a taxicab chase in New York City. Again, for his 12th success in the last 15 years, Mr. Di Maggio caught a thief. The East Side delicatessen owner foiled the latest bandit when he let the armed man rob the till and flee out the front door. Then, following the pattern of the past, Di Maggio grabbed his rifle, ran to the street, and fired two warning rounds over the fugitive’s head. Alerted by the shots, a patrolman arrived and the frightened felon fell into his arms.
Dispatch, St. Paul, MN
State: MN
American Rifleman Issue: 7/1/1962
After being aroused by a homemade burglar alarm in his grocery store next door, Clifford Carlson of Minneapolis, Minn., armed himself and surprised two men in the act of looting the store’s cash register. Carlson downed one with a chest shot. While hunting for the second burglar, he found a car with motor running near the store. Shortly thereafter he had the second man trapped and held him for police. The incident brought Carlson’s bag of burglars to six since 1959.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, MO
State: MO
American Rifleman Issue: 3/1/1974
In 1962, St. Louis, Mo., television repair shop owner Glenn Arrowsmith fired two shots at a burglar but missed. More recently Arrowsmith responded to a burglar alarm and spotted a thief fleeing into the night from his shop. When the criminal refused an order to halt, Arrowsmith fired one shot from his small-caliber automatic pistol, seriously wounding the intruder in the head.
St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, MO
State: MO
American Rifleman Issue: 6/1/1972
Two men approached Myer Wallk, 64, of St. Louis, Mo., as he was walking his dog late at night and threatened to kill him if he didn’t halt. Wallk drew a cal. .32 pistol and mortally wounded one assailant. The other fled. Police identified the dead man as a former convict who had been arrested 56 times since 1964.
Examiner & Chronicle, San Francisco, CA
State: CA
American Rifleman Issue: 6/1/1969
Sam Totah, 56, who operates a small grocery in San Francisco, Calif., is listed in police records as wounding a bandit in 1964 and killing another who fired three shots at him in 1966. The gunman who entered Totah’s store and stuck a cal. .25 semi-automatic at him evidently didn’t know he was picking on the wrong victim. Totah killed him with one shot. A police check revealed that the dead bandit’s pistol was stolen in 1966.
Herald-Examiner, Los Angeles, CA
State: CA
American Rifleman Issue: 4/1/1967
Ex-marine William C. Kelley has won his third personal battle with holdup men at his Los Angeles, Calif., service station. When two men demanded the cash, Kelley gave them $32.63 from the cash box. One man went after him for more. Kelley shot the holdup man three times with a .25 automatic, then went inside for his .38 caliber revolver. Both men drove off meanwhile. Kelley said he shot another bandit through both legs in 1965 and, later that year, killed a holdup man who shoved a shotgun at him saying, “You’re going to die.” Pushing aside the shotgun, Kelley, a pistol expert, shot first. He remarked, “I don’t doubt anything a man says when he’s pointing a gun at you.”
Chronicle, Houston, TX
State: TX
American Rifleman Issue: 11/1/1968
Twice in the last two years, Houston, Tex., storekeeper Ronald A. Yeates had routed trios of burglars from his auto salvage shop. In Nov., 1966, he wounded all three. A few weeks ago, Yeates surprised another burglary-bent threesome in his shop when they ignored his order to halt, he wounded one with his shotgun, as the others fled. Minutes later, police captured the other two not far away.
No common sense, lots of immigrants.