CRIME IN AMERICA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 123, 24 April 1936, Page 9

CRIME IN AMERICA.

POLICE VIGILANCE. WASHINGTON, April 22. Something of a reshuffle in the higher ranks of public enemies occurred to-day with the arrest of John Toi-rio at New York. He had once been America’s Public Enemy No. 1 until A 1 Capone superseded him, but even as Public Enemy" No. 2 it appeared likely that he would disappear from the scene, for a time at leaGt, when the Government alleged that, as one or the principals in a bootleg syndicate, he had cheated the Government of 1,000,000 dollars by fixing internal revenue stamps on bottles containing mixtures of taxed and illicit liquors. The Department of Justice further announced that Alvin Karpis, noted kidnapper and now America’s Public Enemy No. 1, was wanted in connection with the abduction of Edward Bremer, who was released after a. ransom of 200,000 dollars was paid. The department offered a reward of 5000 dollars for his capture. That Congress is as enthusiastic over the so-called “G men” as is the public was evidenced to-day when the Senate overwhelmingly declined to accept a reduction of 225,000 dollars proposed in the appropriations for that bureau of the Department of Justice. The appropriation for the bureau totalled 6.025,000 dollars.