The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-24

New York. July o4-The hot wealth
er of the past few weeks seems TO
have had stimulating effect upon the
degenerates and criminals in this city
and they kept the police extremely
busy. Fortunately the heat also SEEM
ed to stimulate the energy and ingenu-
ity OF the officers of the law and in
several cases they succeeded in max
ms important captures. Among the
miscreants arrested We're two boys.
undoubtedly desenerates who had for
some time derived great fun" from
| shooting at inofenSive persons. most
~ children. Several children We're shot
by the young criminals and one OF
/ their victims. at least has but little
| hope of recovering The older of the
two boys, who was positively identi-
ned as one of the aSsailants, is about
! fifteen or seventeen years of age and
j has already a criminal record For
stealing bicycle he was committed 10
the Catholic Protectory. from which
institution he was released only a few
days before his arrest for shooting
several children.
| II was quite characteristic of the Ice
Trust that the price of ice was raised
during the recent hot spell. II was
not claimed that last winer's ice crop
had been failure or even short; nei-
Their did the officials OF the trust give
as an excuse that the ice cost the trust
more during hot weather than at other
times. The only reason given for the
increase in price was, that owing to
the heat the demand for ice had in
creased and the trust found it diff
cult to supply the suddenly increased
demand, owing to the poor system of
distribution employed by the subordi-
nate companies making the deliveries
to the consumers.
| There are some men in the frater-
nifty of crooks who are we'll educated
and clever enough to make a success
in some honest calling, could they
only resist the temptation of pneying
upon the rest of mankind There are,
for instance, two clever crooks, well
educated and apparently not without
refinement, who make speciality of
robbing jewelers. by substituting paste
rings for valuable diamond rings and
pawning or selling the latter. One of
the men, who signs himself the Bear
Headed Pennyweighter." seems to
find peculiar pleasure in writing let
tiers full of humor and sarcasm to the
Jeyelers' Circular Weekly after every
successful coup In his last communi,
cation to the trade paper named the
literary crook explained that he had
some time ago retained for inspec-
ton" a ring with a nice Cape diamond
from the largest jewelry store in New.
ark, N. j., and that he had pawned
the bauble for $3.50 with a pawnbro-
ker in Brooklyn
Strange to relate, the Newark jewel
er referred to did not know that he
had been robbed until his attention
was called to it by the letter sent to
the jewelers. trade paper. The ring
was found in the pawnbrokers shop
mentioned in the letter. The writer of
the letter evidently had grudge
against the pawnbroker, because the
latter had refused to lend more than
$125 for the same ring, when the crook
offered it as security again after he
had redeemed it once
All the shady seats in Union Square
were taken the other day toward the
end of the noon hour. There were plen-
ty of vacant seats in the sun, but it
was scorching hot day. A young man
and girl strolled into the park from
Broadway, and, finding no place to
oht air NV CIV hnf hNx-
could not get by fair means.
Standing near enough to the sitters
to be heard, the young man remarked:
It's pretty near time he passed ov-
err"
"Who!" innocently asked the girl,
not seeing what her companion was
getting at
"Why. Wilbur Wright He's going to
circle the Metropolitan Tower today.
Starts from Garden City. It's FIVE min
utes of l now; let's go and see him
He's to be there at l."
The report that one of the Wrights
was to do an air stunt spread rapidly
and as the Metropolitan Tower could
not be seen from the choice spot in
which the youth had selected to sit,
more than half of those occupying the
Ibenches started off. Two of the coolest
shadiest seats were then selected by
the youth, and he and his companion
sat down for a pleasant chat.
The mountain regions of Kentucky
have always had the reputation of be
ling the home of the "Moonshiners," as
the makers of illicit whisky and bran.
dy are called. But how true that may