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Independence Day Swindle: Crackers strike San Juan store

It was a quiet Sunday night in July 1932 when safecrackers struck and walked off with $200 from a San Juan drugstore. Today, you might say, “What is the big deal; it was only $200 dollars.” But in the 1930s, it had the buying power of about $3,000 — for the era, it was a big heist. As people were preparing for Fourth of July activities — burglars were celebrating their get-a-way with the store’s weekend profits. On Monday morning, San Juan police were on the scene along with fingerprint experts navigating through the store to determine as to who committed the crime. Within ...

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