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ROBBERY
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Fort Worth police 10 are searching for four men who
robbed and beat five persons at a residence on the i
city's south side this afternoon.
The bandits apparently believed there was a large sum
of money inside the house at 29-45 South Grove. They
pistol-whipped four men and tortured 42 year old R.C.
Richardson, in an effort to learn where the money was.
Etoab on stuffed newspapers inside
Richardson's shirt and pants and lighted the papers.
He's hospitalized in satisfactory condition. The other
victims did not require hospital treatment. The gunmen
escaped with two-hundred-dollars cash, jewelry, a
stereo set and the shoes of all five victims.
SZIFILM TIME :35
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Robbery], script, September 5, 1972, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1549311/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.