ROUND-UP OF CRIMINALS
1100 ARRESTS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, 2nd February. In the most intensive round-up of suspected criminals in the history of New York more than 1100 men and women have been arrested by flying squads of police in the last 48 hours. These wholesale seizures, which have crowded the city’s gaols and courts to capacity, brought caustic criticism from magistrates, who described the arrests as “ridiculous and a travesty of justice.” The campaign followed an outbreak of lawlessness, which had resulted in three policemen being killed in a fortnight. The answer of the criminal world to police activity was to “take for a ride” a former convict, whose body, riddled with bullets, was thrown from a motorcar a few streets from a police station in the middle of the city.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 10 February 1938, Page 4
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