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How they got out

Posed photograph of African American woman (top) and Caucasian man (bottom) emerging with baseball bats from a broken door. Caption: "HOW THEY GOT OUT: Monroe Meyerson, 21, and Mrs. Arline Tompkins, 26, demonstrate how, with baseball bats, they broke out of upstairs storage room at Meyerson home, 3531 Bedford Ave., in which they had been locked by robbers who helped themselves to furs and jewels."

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