CRIME IN AMERICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20723, 17 November 1930, Page 9

CRIME IN AMERICA.

INQUIRY INTO PROHIBITION. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. (Received November 16, 7.1i5 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Nov. 15. It is understood on excellent authority that the Commission on Crime, which was set up by the President, Mr. Hoover, under the chairmanship of the former Attorney-General, Mr. G. W. Wickersham, in January, in its recommendations, which are shortly to be submitted to Mr. Hoover and to Congress, will unanimously oppose the repeal of the 18th (prohibition) amendment, or the legalising of 4 per cent. beer. The members will be diviaed on the question of modification of the liquor laws and will not advise the setting up of any Government dispensary system, such as exists in Canada. THEFTS FROM A BANK. CONFESSION BY MANAGER. (Received November 17, 12.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 10. William S,cheel, manager of the Chatham National Bank, was specially selected by the directors to catch a thief who was committing peculations. Scheel himself had been dipping into the till for seven years. The affair worried Scheel and ho confessed, giving tho dates and amounts of every theft he had committed, totalling rnoro than £BOOO.

The polico said ftcheel was tho most helpful embezzler they had known, and the Judge let him off with one year's imprisonment.