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On a summer night in 1959, four workingmen from a Philadelphia factory neighborhood climbed through a coal baron's window and walked out with a fortune so large the victim refused to admit it ever existed. They came from one corner — Kensington and Allegheny
— where burglary wasn't a crime, it was the neighborhood trade, taught like an apprenticeship and run like a factory shift. For thirty years the K&A Gang stripped mansions from Maine to Florida while grand juries, car bombs, showgirls, and FBI manhunts all failed to bring them down. But what finally destroyed America's most notorious burglary gang wasn't a cop, a witness, or a prison cell — it was the day its gentlemen thieves stopped being thieves.
— where burglary wasn't a crime, it was the neighborhood trade, taught like an apprenticeship and run like a factory shift. For thirty years the K&A Gang stripped mansions from Maine to Florida while grand juries, car bombs, showgirls, and FBI manhunts all failed to bring them down. But what finally destroyed America's most notorious burglary gang wasn't a cop, a witness, or a prison cell — it was the day its gentlemen thieves stopped being thieves.
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