The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-13
WHAT TO DO
IN CASE OF BURGLARS
Inspector Faurot's Robbery Prevention
Rules for Women at Homo Might
Come in Very Handy.

1. Leave your lights burning when
you are not at home at night
2. Protect your property with burg
lar alarms. Get good ones.
8. Don't forget that the crook Is
a gibbering coward in the light.
4. A porch light will often scare
a burglar out of the neighborhood.
5. Don't leave your curtains up
when the shadows of evening fall.
6. Don't keep large sums of cash
in the house. Crooks know it.
7. Don't invite thieves by leaving
valuable jewelry scattered about
s. Above all, don't forget the lights.
Roosevelt once told me, Zone lights
as good as one policeman"
9. Don't leave doorkeys anywhere
OH or near the porch
10. And last Of all-don't forget to
have plenty Of light at night.
[By United Press Staff Corespon
dent
NEW YORK. Oct. 13.-The war has
made New York the biggest "interna-
tional crook center" in the world,
authorities declare. Every city in the
country likewise has its increased
quota of crooks Of all kinds, driven
from Europe.
It seems to be the women who are
suffering most from the straight burg.
laries. To date this year the toll OF
the Shout and-Jowl and Crafty-Debon-
air brigades in Gotham alone totals
nearly half million dollars in gems
and cash Practically all the big rob-
berries have been from wealthy Won.
ems home.
While Mrs Elizabeth Nichols sat In
the drawing room Of her Brooklyn res
idence, a thief entered. frightened
Mrs. Nichols so she died, then walked
out with s1S.5O0 worth Of jewelry.
Inspector Joseph A. Faurot, CHIEF
of the New York detective bureau,
has issued lengthy warning to the
women of the country on how to pro-
tect their homes from burglars, hun
dreds Of whom have come from Europe
with their more subtle brothers and
sisters who travel first cabin. Above
lis brief Of Faurot's advice.
There are three months left for the
crooks to maze 1915 international
record here and they promise to do 1t.
Driven from their lucrative and
accustomed haunts at Monte Carlo.
+ london. Paris, Berlin and like famed
continental resorts, the crooks have
swooped down and settled upon New
York as the locust plague once swept
the Kansas prairies.
They're a clever crew. for the most
part; barring the international strong
arm man and second story WORKER
who Is just prosperous low-brow.
Its the educated, crafty, shrewd men
and women crooks-white collar
scoundrels. who are driving the New
York detectives plumb distracted.
Since January, fifteen big jobs" OF
| So, 900 or over. have been successfully
put over by what is believed to be an
organized band of clever criminals
aided. maybe, by servants in wealthy
households.
Proceeds from the fifteen hau1s
total nearly s350,o0o. and there have
been hundreds of robberies ranging
from 800 to $1,000.
Some of the heaviest losers are
Mrs. Sherwood Aldrich. whose sum-
lmer house at Southampton, L. l., was
robbed of $4,000 in gems: Mrs. James
Mcmillan, whose summer place at
Manchester-by-the-se was robbed of
Jewels valued at $4,000; Mrs. E.
Clifton Potter, from whose summer
place at Fast Hampton. l.. L., thieves
obtained $4,000 in gems; Mrs. Bar
bara Wright, Brooklyn, $4,000.
Rewards totaling almost $4,000 are
still in force on some of the larger
lrobberies.