CRIME IN U.S.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18546, 23 November 1925, Page 10

CRIME IN U.S.

AN AMAZING CATALOGUE. i i £3,200,000,000 BILL YEARLY. J (BT CABLE—FHESS ASSOCUTIOK—COPYHTOHT.) (iTJBTBALIAJf AS» X.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, November 20. Estimates that American insurance companies annually pay out £800,000,000 cs the results of crimes throughout the country, and that the nation's crime bill amounts to £3,200,000,000 yearly, appears to be borne out by the amazing daily record of hold-ups, robberies, burglaries, etc. The past fortnight has been especially prolific in this field of crime, the theft.in New York of a £20,000 fur from a shop capping 14 days of unusual depredations. The fortnight's catalogue includes the following outstanding instances of crime, but does not include a thousand serious offences, in which large sums were taken, but not sufficiently large to be reported in the public prints:— ■ - ! Gems worth £ltf;4oo stolen from a woman in Denver; £20,000 worth of ! Liberty Bonds 4 taken from a business man's home in Pasadena, California; £SOOO pay-roll robbery at Long Island; safe blown open at Brooklyn and robbers escaped with £2000; five bandits held up jewellery manufacturing establishment at Newark. New Jersey, and escaped with £IO,OOO worth of jewels, burning two girls with acid during the process; bandit held u n bank in Detroit and escaped with. £2000; burglar took £2400 worth of jewellery from a private home in New York; six bandits escaped with £2400 pay-roll at Paterson. New Jersey, and £4OOO payroll at Providence, llhod© Island; £2OOO bank robbery at Dayton, Ohio. Six bandits with a motorlorry containing £6OOO worth of silk in broad daylight in New York City, kid? napping the driver.. Various organisations throughout the country are holding meetings to study the prevention of crime. ' The ex-Secretary of State, Mr C. E. Hughes, is participating in the meetings of one group in New York, 'lhe Society for Prevention of Crime offered a prize of £SOO lor the best plan' to reduce crime in America.