CRIME IN AMERICA

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 124, 21 November 1925, Page 7

CRIME IN AMERICA

HUGE COST TO NATION SINGLE FORTNIGHT'S LIST REWABD OFFERED FOB REMEDY. (UNITED FRESS ASSOCIATION— COPXMSHr.) (.IUSTBALIAN.NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION,) (Received 21st Novomber, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, 20th November. Estimates that American insurance companies annually pay out 4000 million dollars as the results of crimes throughout the country and that the nation's crime bill amounts to 16,000 million dollars yearly appear to bo borne out by the amazing daily record of hold-ups, robberies, burglaries, etc. The paEt fortnight has been especially prolific in this iield of crime, a theft in Now York of 100,000 dollars worth of furs from a shop capping fourteen days of unusual .depredations. The fortnight's catalogue includes the following outstanding instances, but does' not include thousands of serious offences in vyhich large sums were taken, but insufficiently large to be .reported in the public prints. In Denver 52,000 dollars worth of gema were stolen from a woman, while 100,000 dollars worth of Liberty Bonds were taken from a business man's home at Pasadena, California. Forty thousand dollars went in a pay-roll robbery at Long Island City. A safe was blowu open at Brooklyn and the robbers escaped.with 10,000 dollars. Five bandits held up a jewellery manufacturing establishment at Newark, Now Jersey, and escaped with 50,000 dollars worth of jewels, burning two girls with acid during the process. A bandit held up a bank at Detroit and escaped with 10,000 dollars. A burglar took 12,000 dollars of jewellery from a private home in New York. Six bandits escaped with a 12,000 dollar pay-roll at Paterson, New Jersey, and a 20,000 dollar pay-roll at Providence; Rhode Island, There was a 10,000-dollar bank robbery at Dayton, Ohio. Six bandits escaped with a motor-lorry containing 30,000 dollars worth of silk in broad daylight in New York City, kidnapping the driver.

Various organisations throughout the country are holding meetings to sttdy the prevention of crime. The ex-Secretary of State, Mr. C.. E. Hughes, is participating in the meetings of one group in New York. The Society for the Prevention of Crime has offered a prize of 25C0 dollars for the best plan to reduce, crime in x\merica. . . '