AMAZING RECORD OF CRIME

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19462, 23 November 1925, Page 8

AMAZING RECORD OF CRIME

THINGS THEY DO IN THE STATES A FORTNIGHT’S TALLY NEW YORK, Nov. 20. Estimates that the American insurance companies annually pay out 4,000,000,000 dollars as the results of crimes throughout the country and that the nation’s crime bill amounts to 16,000,000,000 dollars yearly appear to oe borne out by the amazing daily record of hold-ups, robberies, burglaries, etc. The past fortnight has been especially prolific in this field of crime. The theft in New York of 100,000 dollars’ worth of fur from a shop caps fourteen days of unusual depredations. The fortnight’s catalogue includes the following outstanding instances, but does not include thousands of serious offences in which large sums were taken, but not sufficiently large to bo [reported in the public prints: Fifty[two thousand dollars of gems were | stolen from a woman at Denver. Ono hundred thousand dollars of Liberty bonds were taken from a business man’s home at Pasadena, California.

There was a forty thousand dollar pay roll robbery at Long Island. A city safe was blown open at Brooklyn and the robbers escaped with ten thousand dollars. Five bandits held up a jewellery manufacturing establishment at Newark, New Jersey, and escaped with fifty thousand dollars’ worth of jewels, burning two girls with acid during the process. A bandit held up a bank and escaped with ten thousand dollars. /V burglar took a twelve thousand dollar pay-roll and jewellery from a private home in New York. Bix bandits escaped with a twelve thousand dollar pay roll at Paterson, New Jersey, and twenty thousand dollar pay roll at Providence, Rhode Island. A ten thousand dollar bank robbery took place at Dayton, Ohio. Six bandits escaped with a motor lorry containing thirty thousand dollars’ worth of silk in broad day light in New York city, kidnapping the driver.

Various organisations throughout the country are holding meetings to study the prevention of crime. The ex-Secretary of State, Mr C. E. Hughes, is participating in the meeting of one. group in New York. A society for the prevention of crime has offered a prize of two thousand five hundred dollars for the best plan to reduce crime in America.