JEWEL THIEVES

Evening Star, Issue 19198, 15 March 1926, Page 5

JEWEL THIEVES

OUTCRY Ifl NEW YORK MORE POLICE DEMANDED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

NEW YORK, March 14. (Received slarch 15, at 9 a.m.) While the sletropolitan Retail Jcwelloijp Association has announced that tho plate and retail jewellery stores would close for one day as a protest against inadequate police protection and to emphasise it* demand for increasing the forco by 25,000, one of the most sensational diamond burglaries occurred at the busiest street corner, five armed men robbing a jeweller and escaping with 100,000 dollars’ worth of gems. The alarming increase in banditry has resulted in an announcement that the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwritox-s would inci'ease by 15 per cent, the rates of burglary insurance in residences and hotels, bringing the figures in some instances to nearly four cents on the dollar. It is pointed out that even with the increased rates brokers have found it difficult to place risks, since the companies are accepting only a limited number. Insurance men say that little loot is being recovered _ because the thieves are. disposing of tho goods through “fences,” and not through the pawn shops.—A. and N.Z. Cable.