Tale of the notorious Phila. K&A burglars
Philadelphia Inquirer, The, March, 2006 by Jeff Gammage
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Allen Hornblum looks pretty relaxed for a guy who sleeps with a gun next to his pillow.
And who's being sued for libel. By a gangster. Alleged gangster, that is.
Maybe he's pleased because his new book is selling so well.
Confessions of a Second Story Man: Junior Kripplebauer and the K&A Gang is the street-level tale of a bunch of high school dropouts from Kensington who made an art of robbing wealthy suburban homes during the 1950s, '60s and '70s. At their peak, Hornblum writes, the thieves committed thousands of burglaries a year, from Bar Harbor to Boca Raton.
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Not that they called it stealing. The men of K&A - it stands for Kensington and Allegheny, the neighborhood's main intersection - called it "production work." And to them it was as much a career choice as a job in a shipyard or a factory. It ...
