"...They make it so damned easy"
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

"...They make it so damned easy"

Associated Press · April 4, 1963

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

A tear runs down the cheek, left, of 23-year-old Darlis Joan Erwig as she delivers a lecture in Los Angeles jail last night on how to succeed in burglary without really trying. "Five out of ten people leave doors unlocked," she said. "They make it so damned easy." She's been arrested 45 times but convicted only rarely. She's in jail again charged with suspicion of burglary and told newsmen she has been stealing since she was 17.

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