CRIME IN NEW YORK
DARmG CRIMINALS. * . MDEDER AND ROBBERY RAMPANT. _______ - Press Association—By Telegraph.—^Jopyxight. NEW YORK, January 1. A' wave of crime ia -sweeping over New York. There have been six murders in the present week, and a dozen other persons were wounded in affrays. Two robbers who were, caught red-handed were shot dead. The latest spectacular crime occurred in Broadway. Three robbers entered a res--taurant .and covered the occupants with pistols. They robbed 10 customers, and, then escaped in a taxicab, keeping up a fusillade on the pursuing sqplice. Sam Gold, Harry Cohen, and Mrs Abe Attell, wife of a pugilist, were arrested on ar charge of stealing 1,500,000 dollars’ worth of bonds in July last. The theft occurred during the transfer from the Reserve Bank in New York to the Treasury Department in Washington. £jome were stamped “ paid,” but the stamps were removed by chemicals. Many were passed before the police were able to trace the perpetrators.—Rduter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18444, 4 January 1922, Page 5
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