| #### PHRACK PRESENTS ISSUE 16 #### | |
| ^*^*^*^Phrack World News, Part 5^*^*^*^ | |
| **** File 12 of 12 **** | |
| "Phone Companies Across U.S. Want Coins Box Thief's Number" | |
| From the Tribune - Thursday, Nov. 5, 1987 | |
| SAN FRANCISCO - Seven telephone companies across the country, including | |
| Pacific Bell, are so frazzled by a coin box thief that they are offering a | |
| reward of $25,000 to catch him. | |
| He's very clever, telephone officials say, and is the only known suspect in | |
| the country that is able to pick the locks on coin boxes in telephone | |
| booths with relative ease. | |
| He is believed responsible for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from | |
| coin boxes in the Bay Area and Sacramento this year. | |
| The suspect has been identified by authorities as James Clark, 47, of | |
| Pennisula, Ohio, a machinist and tool-and-die maker, who is believed | |
| responsible for coin box thefts in 24 other states. | |
| Other companies sharing in the reward are Ohio Bell, Southern Bell, South | |
| Carolina Bell, South Central Bell, Southwestern Bell, Bell Telephone of | |
| Pennsylvania and U.S. West. | |
| Clark allegedly hit pay phones that are near freeways and other major | |
| thoroughfares. Clark, described as 5 feet 9 inches tall, with shoulder | |
| length brown hair and gold-rimmed glasses, is reported to be driving a new | |
| Chevrolet Astro van painted a dark metallic blue. | |
| He was recently in Arizona but is believed to be back in California. | |
| Written by a Tribune Staff Writer | |
| Typed by the $muggler | |