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FURNITURE THIEF 1-1-1
Five charges of felony theft ar filed in
Dallas against 31-year-old George B. Padilla who
worked as a a warehouse foreman for the Stanford
furniture company at the time that 20-thousand
dollars worth of furniture disappeared from thewarehouse.
Detective C. L. Smith arrested Padilla
last night at the former warehouse foreman's
East Dallas home. Padilla worked for the furniture
company * until July of 1958 when an inventory of
the warehouse disclosed that the firm's sales
records and the amount of stock on hand did not jibe.
CU SUSPECT
Padilla says, since he was foreman, he was held
responsible and lost his job. T But, he denies
knowing anything about the missing furniture.
DetectiveSmith says he has uncovered fifteen
receipts which k were made out * to a South
Dallas used furniture dealer showing sales totaling
7-hundred forty-six dollars. These receipts do not0
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Furniture thief], item, November 3, 1959; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862341/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.