The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-09-06
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attempting 10 enter q residence to
arrest R. E. Manner Manner was ar
rested and tried for the shooting.
The bullet inflicted only a slight
wound
During the fourteen days police
men have suffered more attacks.
probably. than during the Christmas
and New Year holidays. Several
have necessitated surgical attention
for the wounds received in handling
prisoners.
Recorders court faced its biggest
docket Monday morning when court
opened upon 185 cases accumulated
since Saturday noon. One hundred
and six cases had been booked dur
ing the day at midnight Saturday.
The remainder followed through
Sunday and Sunday night.
Over 600 Arrests Made
In the neighborhood OF 600 or 700
arrests have been made during the
fourteen days of crime. This, in it
self, is a record unparalleled. a ma
jority of this number were docketed
under charges of drunk and disor-
DERBY conduct, while the more SER
ious charges of murder and assault
with intent to murder were found
here and there.
An alarming percentage were
women, numbers of whom had been
arrested in brawls and fights that
sent victims to the hospital. A large
portion of the female prisoners were
docketed with charges of disorderly
and immoral conduct Many of the
white women were arrested in the
downtown district.
The inaccessibility of the police
and hospital records prevents
thorough account being taken of the
homicides since August 10. Only
three Of the sIayings were to be
found recorded at headquarters. No
hospital data is kept on homicides
where the victim is not removed to
Grady.
Ten Have Met Death
Hospital and police headquarters,
however, approximate the list of
deaths at ten, with the probability of
the number increasing with the pass
ing of patients who are lingering at
Grady from wounds that sent them
there during the crime period.
One of these cases, in particular,
is that of an unknown man, we'll
dressed and apparently 60 years old,
who was found unconscious and dy-
ing shortly before midnight Satur-
day on Decatur street, near Yonge.
He was carried to. Grady hospital. a
deep knife wound in the back Rob
berry is believed to have been the
motive.
Fifteen big burgIaries were re-
ported at headquarters since the
18th. There were many more, some
of which escaped police notice, and
others of which were too small to
be entered in the daily report of the
captains. A large number of high
way robberies were also recorded.
One particularly noticeable fact of
the crimson era was the increase of
what the police term 'high-class'
crime. More arrests for forgery were
made during the two weeks than at
any other time of the year, five in all,
while the number OF prisoners taken
to headquarters and tried on charge
of bogus checks was alarming.
Negro SwindIers Increase
ed. Ingenious practices for cheating
have been perpetrated that baff1ed
detectives. A number of this class.
though, were captured, tried in POI
lice court and bound over to the Grim
inal division. Several well-known
white men were dealt with by the re-
corder on charges of forgery and the
handling of worthless checks.
Petty thievery cases have swamped
the detective bureau. Snatch-thiev-
cry, pocket-picking 'fiim-flamming
crimes have occupied every available
man on Chief Lanford's staff He was
called back Monday from the midst
OF his annual vacation to take charge
of his over-worked department.
Chief Lanford stated to a Consti-
tuition reporter Monday afternoon
that there was more crime in Atlanta
during the present period than at
any normal season of his experience.
He is unable to explain the phe-
nomena, except that it is a periodical
wave of wrong-doing that sweeps
| spasmodically over every city.