New-York tribune., 1905-01-30
PARADISE FOR ROGUES.
Policemen Talk While There's Work
The Ware of Crime.

-IH6 ~ are OF Cf1ne.
The patrolnan or the three platoon system
which is responsible?
This is the question that is being varously
asked and as variously answered apropos of the
wave OF violent crime which seems TO he sweep
ing this city.
For more than four months the metropolis has
been the scene of q series OF crimes Of all sorts
thst is almost unprecedented. Most Of these
acts Of violence have gone unpunished. Month
f. month out. murders have WED with daring
hurglaries. Bod hold-ups have divided the
honors with sneak thefts and gang terrorizings
with gun play. tin the visitor has begunito won
der whether his IS New-York OF the frontier.
The Gotharnite has come TO blush for the fair
fame OF his city.
Who is 20 blame? There are those, like Police
Commissioner McAdoo himself, who say il is
the patrolman; there are not enough policemen,
they declare. There are those who see In the
three platoon system, discarded by Commits
stoner Partridge and restored by Mr.. McAdoo,
The explanation Of tFe situation.
The pstrolman or three platoons. which is il?
Investigations made by Tribune reporters in
this city last week show that It is both The
snvegtieations indicate that not only under the
three platoon system are there too few men on
duty. but .hat. thanks TO the present admins
srstion, those that are on duty habitually shirk
shslr duty. In view of Mr. McAdoo's plea OF
paucity OF funds they show that the only i'm
mediate salvation lies in a thorough purging Of
the force and the infusion Of new. clean arteriaI
blood into the service.
WHAT TOURS OF CITY SHOWED
Prom tours made by the reporters uptown
and down, on the East Side and the West Side.
q Is evident u that after midnight a large
rrororficF, oF the yo1Fcar7er do rafrOJ on
one-hfth Of their posts, and make practically no
attempt 10 fulfil the duties for which the city
pays them; and @ that many OF the districts
which the last few months have proved to be
the most likely fields for crime are almost as
much al the mercy OF the thief the thug, the
EsrToter the strong arm, the yeggmen and the
plain, ordinary hold-up es II the police force did
not exist. Indeed. reviewing the situation in
the light OF personal Investigations, il seems
strange that, bad as the record Of the last four
months has Leen. il has not been even worse
As i is, not q day passes without its notch OF
crime. The frequent occurrences of streetcar
fobbsries. wholesale thefts on the upper West
Side and, most startling of all, hold-ups at the
pistol point Of citizens in broad daylight in
their Own homes. have added new terror to
existence and are making the New-YoElS police
administration byword throughout the coun-
ny.
The following calendar Of important crimes.
sl boldly committed the first half of the present
month, is salf-eTplanatory:
January Police sent cut a general alarm for the
ssSptNe OF robbers who stole Jewels worth SoV
.foA Riverside Drive resident whose name was
Mlahe1. reported mat thieves stole curtains val
"a 10 a several thousand dollars from the steps or
AZ Seetee J Goulds home, al 5th-aEe and 63tn-st
ssneary 9-irs Florence Burton. OF No l,sls lth,,
roT %ss ned Up a. Broadway ane lleta.Ss s55 @ ana
-egea and robbed OF s57s in the hallway at No la4
...oa-st al noon. masked robbers were reported 70
sIs.s ned Up The butler IN the home or Eoenezer
'e 20 y East sGth-st., hut were frightened on by
ss e.s before they could Dlunder the house general
home q = = s I LOT q ou ~ ~ VEST 7stb-st held
Fsts i'' Sh'Pnan and heF brother with pistol and
January 4-Mrs Katherine Cannon was held up
T Ioebec o. Sl5l at Riverside Drive and ssth-st
,rSa11btg J-2irs. ". /. Cunningham or NO. 10y
trunks 6s 5sp@Fsa s go @orth 10 fe OF aesoa6ie bonds
f-Iks beng taken from the door by an express
"a .J5s5iuaTy 7-The BODY Of Mrs Daisy Young. who
soy7 Ssn murdered IN her fat at No 10 East WIN
IsT,S 9,s : sat hours before was discovered. -,
ssSSsa5lsFy S-Burglsrs entered the pawnshop OF
Ess EsssSesm am Edson No. l34 Bowery. and carried on
-. hofth OF diamonds and !ewelry-
wTSnn1aly e-Tkieyes entered the apartment or MIS-
Inc IN three months - taking $50 worth OF jeweiry
sss.s2chels robbed Magistrate Crane OF 8 card
January is-Foar hugs robbed Charles z. Van der
Fei5 & oI 10 "a East Hsuston-st or so IN casl3
,,fie.q watch and chain valued $50 a check ana
,ev esu.e papers the platform Of S4th-st cross
Hoe - ssL as il Was passing the "aIcorf-Aslori@
,sSs.lSfy IA robbel held up Ernest o. w. Woerz
- aoine st 6th-aVe aud esd-st, and got 800 al
Nt fnlzzie of pistol.
NO ONE is SAFE HERE
Fton this list = w.ll be readily apparent that
''+lgs now exist no man. woman or child. |
matter how high or how low his station. is
-7Hlpt from robbery or assault. 4 distressing |
Lure is the fact that the perpetrators in the |
majority Of cases have robbed, murdered |
assaulted with ifnpunity. only by sum- |
~iy punishment could repetitions be avoided |
reduced.
y ne upper West Side. in the district be- |
'sA oeth-st, 66th-st. Central Park and the |
s1n River, for instance. where millions Of dol |
forth q property is housed and where rob- |
have been frequent. recent investigation |
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