Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-25
CRIME WAVE ORDER
Of SHOOT TOK|LLil
ISSUED BY BEAvEI
Evening Watch Is !ncLeaS.
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by Officer
Id two Thursda,

Round two Thursday
Crime VS.. the Atlanta
went to the force by u
gin. The highwaymen and o.
were on the defensive. They
to start anything except in few
stances. and one Of these resulted
the, capture of q safe-cracker in theV
very act.
In addition, the police got credit
in the minds of several hundred
people for killing yeggmen with
$4,000 in his pocket as he tried TO
escape from a Five Points jewelry
shop which he had blown opel
with a charge so terrific that
wrecked several buildings.
Thirteen different reports Of thiV
affair were reieeived by The Journaly
and twenty-nine by the police. Thus
far painstaking investigation has\
failed to confirm single report.
The story seems to have been start
ed by one Of those inventive brains
that always appear along with criEas
waves.
Caught in Act
The yeggman caught in the acl
was RUDE Benton, alias James
Harrison, negro barber for Her.
don's, at 35 Marietta street. Hen
was trying to crack the safe Of +
his employers shop when the police
got him.
Will Hines, the negro janitor OF
Herndon's. unlocked the front door
Of the barber shop at a. m. and
started to clean UP. He heard q teA(
rifle hammering in the basement,
and without stopping to Investigate
relocked the door and ran toward
Five Points.
The police crusade on crime
notably the placing of fifty addition I
al men on duty at night and Chief
Beavers orders to "shoot to kill
when criminals were encountered a
the jobs and sought to escape, apl
parently has had an immediate ane%
marked effect in checking the recent
epidemic of robberies in Atlanta.
The news was widely heralded j
Wednesday afternoons newspaper
that fifty men had been transfers.
from the day watch to the evenir
and morning watches, that the citi-I
zen police had been called upon to
do voluntary duty in their neigh
borhoods at night, that members OIL
the force had been ordered to "sho(
quick and shoot to kill" II safeV
crackers or highwaymen, caught red,
handed, sought to get away and tina
the entire force was On it's mettle tov
protect the Atlanta public. z
Evidently the yeggmen am
burglars took the warning to hea
for Wednesday night was a per
of comparative quiet at the pol
station. Where twenty-six calls,
Guiding one murder and a number
bold robberies were received at IL.
police station Tuesday night, only
fourteen calls came in during tn
same hours Wednesday night, an
practically all Of these were of
minor nature.
The SHOOT to kill order" resulte
In the Staying of zone negro. Will
liam Henry Clemens, Of 20 Gumby
street, was ordered to halt on thu
Edgewod avenue bridge about
Bentley. The officers say he. wi
carrying heavy satchel and thu
at their command, he dropped it
dreW a weapon which was fou
later to be a pair of barber shea
AS he advanced toward them. Pair
man Evans fired. The negro dr.
ped. shot through the abdomen,
died soon afterward at the Gre
hospital
Rob Cash Register
Two burglaries, one snatch-thi
a taxicab hold-up and the steaIi
of an automobile were the crimes
ported Wednesday night. ]. F. Rot
tree, grocer. of 166 Elizabd
street. Inman Park, stated that II
white men entered his store ear
in the evening, held him up and RI
bed the cash register of $1.55
TWO churches were ransacked d
ing the night. AT the All Sair
Episcopal church at 256 West Peacy
tree, robbers stole all of the Chris
mas gifts and decorations whic--. ha
been left in the Sunday school room.
ready for the children's entertain
ment Thursday morning; and the
North avenue Presbyterian church.
on the corner of Peachtree and North |
Avenue, was entered and plundered 7
OF several articles of value. including
the church linen. and sofa pillows
from the ladies' parIor.
A Mrs. Lucas, OF Is Elmwood ava.
nue.. reported her cook was waylaid Or
the way to the grocery store anu
robbed of a purse containing So. r.
e. Mitchell reported the theft of his y
automobile from Auburn avenue and M
Ivy street.
The boldest robbery of the nigh
was reported by W. A. Harrison, o.
Forrest Park, who stated he charter
ed a taxicab in Atlanta and was ri(
Ing In it on the Cascade road, VIII
the driver stopped. and, with two o.
er men who occupied the front s.
with him. assaulted him and rob
him of 81. His wounds were trea
at Grady hospital.
Several arrests have been ma
connection with recent robh
John c. Davis, young white
was arrested at Toccoa by "a
agents and has confessed to til
berry of two safes at the ar
cruiting station in the Transp
building. The police have
Dewey Hunter, negro with
and James Jackson, al
A. Nolan, another negro.
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