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The Virginian Pilot | January 21, 1997 | Copyright

Byline: GEORGE HEBERT

A two-word phrase caught my eye - and rang an old bell - the other day when I was browsing a microfilmed newspaper file at Norfolk's Kirn Memorial Library.

It was quite an old file. Quite early in this century. The report that caused me to stop winding the reel and turn the zoom knob for a blow-up was in The Virginian-Pilot and Norfolk Landmark issue of Aug. 2, 1919.

It was about a woman who had been captured in Omaha and brought back to Norfolk to face a charge of passing a worthless check, for $2,000, at a local jewelry ...

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