| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
| NUMBER: | 2083 |
| AUTHOR: | Herbert Emerson Wilson |
| QUOTATION: | The safe that night looked like a soft one [and] the explosion made no more noise than a pig’s grunt. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On his first break-in of a Detroit department store, quoted by James Chiles “Age-Old Battle to Keep Safes Safe from Creepers, Soup Men and Yeggs” Smithsonian Jul 84 |
| SUBJECTS: | The World: Law: Criminology |
| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. Copyright © 1988 by James B. Simpson. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | ||||
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