Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-08-04
OUTBURST OF CRIME
STA G R s
NEW YORK
AUTHORITIES STUNNED
BY MURDER EPIDEMIC
One a Day Has Been the Aver
age and Game Grows faster
as Efforts to Check It Be-
come Desperate,

Kew YORK. Aug Chain mail
famlsoe ~ become me popular SUM
utfr attire here. o armored auto
waBI.e the only safe means Of con
tesanre IL q sudden end 81 not put
10 tba oity-s reign ~ terror Three
coId-DfOpded and dramatic murders
before The eyes 81 th0usands in the
center ~ the city lh three successive
dafs hsvc served 90 ~accentuate gflmly
t44e fact thai 80 Tar ~ the safety ~
human life Is concerned. New York Do
about on q par with the widest min
ing camp ~ fiction, aud ~ regards
Organized murder ana terrorism ~
black mailing societies closely akin 10
conditions prevailing IN tho middle
ages The astonishing pass 10 which
things have come lF instanced by the
Tack Of notice accorded 10 any but the
most dramatic crimes. -Four days
aner 3 doctor was strauRled % death
on 4 |p0pulous street the matter o
been forgotten and the depredaiiOns
II The Black Hand society. ~ whose
door a. least one murder "a week has
been laid for months, only became
worthy OF notice when eliminating in
the blowing up uf q tenement house
containing goo persons. Battle, mur-
wv NV ENfHHtfN NfnNH H'NN. 80 ~
sweeping through the city ike a PES
thence. 81
Man hunts for asaaulters Of chit
dron are ~ daily occurrence in The
suburbs, no less than four Occurring
ln one day on staten Island. The
past week shows twenty-five inutde q
and murdcrouH assaults. and aeatns
labeled az yiuient exclusive Of acci-
dents approach close 10 the hundred
mark. ON top ~ an this coo the
startling revelations of the workings.
Of the Humhaklht. the A|rncniIn -
cfei society. which brought abou h,
murder Of q prominent Arnnuisn NIL
i|iunHirt because he faiuHrI 10 ba
hlaekmniled. and since his death has
in letters 10 others Of tho same race
in this city openly acknowledged
causing his murder and promised th"
same fate fo others unless they ave
large sums Of money LootinR banks
has become a Joke. only This week
robbera held ~ the teller of q Broad
way bank during the noon hour win
masks and guns in true deHperado
HtNie for The sum Of $1,000 Respect
able citizens are planning 90 take
matters into their own hands and TO
defend themselves by meeting violence
with violence Altogether 10 makes f.
very pretty picture II hot weather
conditions prevailing IA the first city
Of The land. and lend weight 10 The
chafFea that something DIS fotton
almeu here Onc thing seems certain
however, and thar ia that the limit
has been reached New York is ripe
FOR u crusade against crime and Grim
iuilH which should be long remom-
Fss sss n wrs -
Chess players sid the public Va gen
sral Who remember EurOpc's fHmouH
automatic chess player around
which scientific controversy ragged so
f~lcfceis aud which many cxpefts
dubbed fake or genuine before IT was
finally proven that the automaton was
ma automatqn at an. bat q clever
piece ~ deception. viii find AN inter
oHitnR parallel in the autonptic check
~ player which came into notice here
This week As "a tho ease of its Gu
ropoHn prototype. much discussion
has arisen from ID. The automnton
WaF invented hy "a contractor named
Mansfield. who found money making
in his llnc 81 business too slow SO
he constructed the checker player. |
which much rcsombled au automatic
weighing machine with "a checker /
bu1rl Boo front Of % and q rubber hand
projecting from "a copper sleeve over
the board According 90 the inventor
Do h4a operated hy electricity. aud Hll
fhHf ans one wishing to slay against |
% hHd Goo DO was 40 drop Il dime iu The
lui whom. accompanied by "a great
WhiriluE of wheels within. the hand
would move the pieces against those
OF hs human opponent. and. nH 10
happened. invariably win Mansfield
uFufrl thut a. least ono person out of
Ten played checkers and that OF these 4
IIHf IwlH.N fNnH FHsa a..r stra.f-r. ]
ana could beat any o. or anything
Tho results justified his conclusions
Tor once thp machine WAS set uu ut a
pleasure resort, people fell over each
other Dob their anxiety to contribute u
dime Cor fnp privilege Of being beaten
hf U a silver food poured lu uu.l
i H.rntc noticed NAT the rubber hand
h1d 90 curious way of tWttchinK pNen
whUu the machine was hot lu opera
uou win MaohItNelian cunning thu
rude person dropped iu hls dime. sat
h'furr the Hutumafou and Boz the
middle Hf ihc game suddenly cXclHim
' Ifhr htrk fuuf men aud Wc VIII
"u over Tho HufnmHtuu uhilrimg-
' .Hk hHrk Ifs wru and aDcpiicsl ufI
' fH'H'f Uf machine even 30 %
"Ni iIlf checkers. GO Hri Goa verbal
'Hr Htf.iIsH tor smashed U
H ni dftsrri frnm Ifs iutIB,s s
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.. t.'l' N.mo O. hp beaten nt
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IN appropriation
b.. fHs federal ent
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