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Burglar led Into temptation by Catholics, tattoos

by Tom Gallagher

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May 23, 2011

What reads like a page out of a William Kennedy novel is actually a true story out of Brooklyn, written by a Michael Wilson for the Crime Scene section of The New York Times:

While politics is usually the matchmaker in these things, this time it had nothing to do with the strange bedfellows found at “The Beach.” On one side is a club of middle-aged and elderly Roman Catholic men, and on the other is a tattoo parlor that uses crucifixes in lieu of the t’s in its name. The mysterious stranger who brought them together: a deft burglar.