BANDITS OF BROADWAY.
NEW YORK'S CRIME WAVE. STRANGE VIEW OF AUSTRALIA. VANCOUVER, December IS. A message from New York states that the crime wave occupies much attention -in the newspapers. To-day. while the New York police weTe endeavouring to organise against crime, a number of thugs held up two down-town jewellery! stores, and stole articles valued at £4000. One newspaper facetiously suggests that if -lesec .lames came to life he would be outclassed by the present bandits. "The fact is," nays the newspaper, "New York is wildeT and woolier than anything in the movies or the literature of the frontier camps ol Mexico or Klondike. The clerks ot fashionable Fifth Avenue shops seem to be in as great peril as the driver of a mule train carrying gold in the Australian wilds." The "Evening World"* devotes the entire front page to the crime- news, including an account of the two policemen killed in a gun-battle on Broadway.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 1, 1 January 1921, Page 5
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