CLIMAX IN CRIME WAVE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 47, 24 August 1931, Page 7

CLIMAX IN CRIME WAVE

FOUR KILLED IN NEW YORK HOOA'ER MOVED TO ACT (United Tress Association—By. Electric Telesraiih—Copyright.) NEW Yf>RK, 22ud August. The gangsters' crimo wave reached a climax to-day when warfare flared up in five places in the metropolitan area. Two policemen were shot dead, seven others were .wounded, two robbers were slain, and seventeen, citizens were wounded.

Todays outlawry' began in the district in which pandits recently fired into a crowd, killing a child. : •-' ' " Three robbers raided the. Mendoza Fur Company. They killed a patrolman who was guarding the pay Toll, and escaped with £1000. Speeding away, the bandits fired on a carrying, a woman- and child and a fireman,'whom the bandits mistook for; a policeman. -All were badly injured as the robbers raked the car with a machine-gun. - '..■•• '■:'. .'•■'■ ; ■ .The bandits were brought to bay in the Bronx after shooting another: patrolman, and two were killed. All,police reserves were called out.. ,:.. .. ;j, Among those in jur'e'cl were a : taxidriver, ana a thirteen-year-old boy, who .are now in1 a critical; condition, and are likely to die.. .■■'..-..' ' - -.-. The dead bandits have been identified as belonging to la.w-abiding families living in New York. They were only 20 years of, age.. The pay roll which they tried,to capture was one of only 4600 dollars. , ■- . ; , , : APPEAI. TO CITIZENS; ' ■ Popular feeling; still runs "high. The newspaper ' "New York American," in a black-headed caption^ oh the front page, says: "Citizens of New York: this may be the fate of'any of you unless you band together to put aniend to the terrorism of crime. Every man and woman in this, city should attend a monster mass meeting to-morrow night in Central Park.".. • '■'■■'"'. '■:..", The . newspaper adds: "President Hoover is shocked at' the'- story of widespread slaughter, and has directed, an, immediate investigation;- by' Federal detectives. ':...' ' V r; "Walter Ferguson, chief of the Secret Service, Eastern' Division, hag been directed to proceed to' New York to co-operiate with the Federal Department of Justice and .the police. • He also has been ordered to investigate the position." -' ;V'; \ ; ' '." Far-reaching changes in the' New York Police. Department's" signal and patrol system, with, the introduction of radioTequipped automobiles for rapid concentration in any part of the/city, has been announced by the actingMayor, Mr. M'Kee, as "a result of yes^ terday's'experience. ."•■.; .',' .=.■;''•■,.:''"'