LAST EDITED ON Nov-08-03 AT 11:56 PM (EST)
 
>One-eyed Jack,

>Did they catch these burglars? If so, can you speculate as
>to why they wore that type of glove? I just can't imagine
>it unless I couldn't afford any others. They would be easy
>to steal, however, from a grocery store. And they do expand
>quite a bit before they're washed --- meaning that someone
>with large hands can easily find and steal something that
>fits.

YES, they did catch them!

If I recall correctly, they bought the gloves (and they did actually buy them) because they were lightweight, and they weren't identifiable. They would buy a new pair almost every time. They must have worked fine for their purposes because they stuck with the same kind and never complained.

These guys made quite a bit of money doing what they did, and they knew all about residential and business burglar alarms.

edited to add: Oh, they also used them because they were darker than a lot of the other gloves. They always wore dark clothing. I have been confused for quite awhile about the brown, cotton fibers found at the crime scene and speculated to be from gloves. I understood the fibers to be identified as light brown, not the dark brown gloves I believe we are talking about.