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involved in interstate commerce, but also to "obtain by any fraudulent device, scheme, or game, any moneys, baggage, goods, or chattels, from any passenger while on a passenger car, sleeping car, or dining car, in a train moving in interstate commerce." According to the report of the committee on
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berths being robbed at night while they were sleeping. In such a situation, the committee said, "the thief not be prosecuted under the Carlin Act, because the property is taken from the possession or custody of the passenger and not from the carrier."
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The Carlin Act was amended again in January 1933, making it a violation not only to break open or rob
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the bill, this was prompted by reports of passengers on
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An amendment to the Carlin Act was introduced by Rep.
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Charles Creighton Carlin
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larceny
felony
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Leonidas C. Dyer
Missouri
68th United States Congress
Calvin Coolidge
boxcars
Pullman
"Carlin Bill Amended to Further Protect Shippers"
"Developments of the Month"
"Railroad Police Cooperate with FBI in Theft from Interstate Shipment Cases"
"Congressional Record: Seventy-Second Congress, First Session"
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