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THE BOXOFFICE CAPER
By Jean Marie Stine


CITY OF SAN LEANDRO

MUNICIPAL POLICE DEPARTMENT

FELONY CRIME INVESTIGATION REPORT

DATE: 12/24/00

TIME: 11:45 p.m.

INVESTIGATING OFFICER: G. PEYTON WERTENBAKER

CASE NO.: R-124C-41

AMOUNT INVOLVED (ESTIMATED): $4,500.00

TYPE OF REPORT: INITIAL

SUMMARY OF INVESTIGATION:

8:32 p.m. Manager, Rialto Theater phoned. Reported suspected robbery. Christmas show receipts missing from walk-in safe.

8:50 p.m. Arrived Rialto, met with Manager, Forrest Ackerman. Heavy set man in fifties. Smell of alcohol on breath.

Ackerman took me into theater office. Showed me safe. Typical Williamson walk-in.

The receipts for the night's special Christmas show, $4,500.00 (est.) had disappeared from safe sometime between 8 and 8:30.

Ackerman said only three people had access to safe: himself, the boxoffice attendant, Leigh Brackett, and the assistant manager, Hugo Gernsback, who was in charge of the concession counter.

Ackerman said boxoffice and concession stand receipts had been put in the safe under his supervision around 8. p.m.

Ackerman he was helping close down the boxoffice from 8:05 to 8:20 when he was called to help an usher with a rowdy patron around.

He discovered the suspected theft when he returned around 8:30. Says he immediately phoned police.

Asked Ackerman if he had any idea who might have taken the money.

Ackerman said he'd seen the asst. manager, Gernsback, returning to the concession stand from what appeared to be the direction of the office around 8:15. Gernsback's duties would not have normally taken him to office after depositing the concession stand receipts in the safe at 8 p.m.

9:10 p.m. Interviewed, Mrs. Brackett on Ackerman's advice. The boxoffice attendant was a dark-hired woman in mid-thirties, small wedding ring, third finger left hand).

Mrs. Brackett, corroborated Ackerman's story. Said she, too, saw Gernsback leaving the office around 8:15.

Added that Gernsback had seemed to be putting a batch of keys in his pocket.