Youths Arrested For Yard Thefts

Police snapped a crime wave in the freshman dormitories Sunday night with the arrest of five local youths. The group was apprehended shortly after allegedly taking $250 worth of records from the Holworthy room of William E. Wessels '62.

Several hours before the robbery, Wessels reported, a girl came into the entry to "case the area." She found Wessels' room deserted and only one occupant, David G. Neuman '62, in the room across the hall.

Later, while the thieves were in the room, Wessels' telephone rang. Neumann went to answer it and surprised the youths, who then seized their loot and rushed past him, into a waiting car. They threw the records from the car window to avoid detection, but were soon picked up by Cambridge Patrolman David F. Cotter for "acting suspiciously."

This gang may be the same one responsible for other similar thefts.