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D837-2
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- 1940-11-29 (Creation)
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Miss Elsie Buchli, left, 21 year old former teacher from Corvallis, and her twin sister Dorothy Buchli are tearfully reunited in the police headquarters. Miss Buchli has been charged as the "love bandit" who held up a cashier at the Riviera Theatre November 27, 1940. On being detained, Miss Buchli presented herself as an innocent who had been deserted by her soldier lover, who had been transferred to Alaska. She indicated that she held up the Riviera cashier with a toy gun as a last resort to raise the money to return home. Evidence indicated that the crime was well planned and intended to net the money to purchase a boat ticket to follow her soldier to Alaska. She received a suspended sentence of 20 years, with the condition that she return to her home in Oregon. (T. Times 11/29/1940 , pg. 1)
Buchli, Elsie; Buchli, Dorothy; Twins; Crimes--Tacoma--1930-1940; Robberies--Tacoma--1930-1940;