Again Mrs. Smith notified the police, who once more tried to trap him. She deposited the bras in the bin as directed, and officers kept close watch on it throughout the night and into the next morning. They saw nothing. Believing the subject had decided not to retrieve the bras, the police went to the bin only to discover they were gone! Unknown to the police, the container had a trapdoor on the back side. Sometime during the night the offender must have crawled through the vacant lot to the bin, opened the trapdoor, and retrieved his prize—Mrs. Smith’s two bras.
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