CRUSADE AGAINST CRIME.
WHOLE CITY RISES. SCHENECTADY, Dec. 3. A vice crusade gripped this city when citizens and police, alarmed by the boldness exhibited by underworld characters, combined to sweep the city free of crime. Efforts against crime leached a climax followingva meeting of the City Council. Developments included: The resignation of Police Chief I James Rynex. who has controlled the police force for 42 years. The purchase of three armoured motor-cars to be used in the viceinfected .districts of the city. . The opening of a public investiga- | tion into the police force, designed to entirely rebuild the force. The offering of a 5000-dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of the man who killed Police Captain Albert Youmams. You mans, who was actively lieading a drive against vice, was killed from ambush, and his companion, Patrolman John Flinn, wounded.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 January 1925, Page 3
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