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- <text id=91TT1770>
- <title>
- Aug. 12, 1991: American Notes:Crime
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 12, 1991 Busybodies & Crybabies
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 32
- American Notes
- CRIME
- Extracurricular Activities
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- <p> Vincent Arthur Hall was a polite, mild-mannered disability
- analyst at the New York State social-services department. Away
- from the office he was a wild and crazy guy. In June, police
- say, Hall took a day off, went to a bank in Queens and
- threatened to blow a teller's head off unless he handed over
- some cash. But as he fled the scene with $725, Hall dropped the
- Manila envelope he used to conceal a gun and a holdup note. The
- envelope was stamped with his employer's address, and although
- the address had been inked out, the FBI was able to track him
- down two weeks ago.
- </p>
- <p> Federal prosecutors say Hall, 50, is suspected of robbing
- an additional 20 banks since April, getting away with an
- estimated $70,000. What's more, he has a criminal record dating
- back some 20 years and spent three years in prison for killing
- a guard in a 1977 bank robbery. A social-services department
- spokesman said the agency was "aware of some of his record" but
- had no idea about "his alleged extracurricular activities."
- Prosecutors called the state's decision to hire Hall in 1981
- "mind boggling."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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