South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-22
SAFETY BOARD
DECLARES WAR
ON CRIME HERE
I En- Additional Policemen
Added to Force to Halt
Law Violations.
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rot made known at police head
quarters The Information given
out regarding the action OF the
beard CT safety merely included the
announcement that ten additional
patrOimen are TO be placed on the
department Immediately and that
the chief OF police is directed 20
bend every effort TO end the wave
OF crime in the city.
Although detectives have investi-
gated. no information as TO the iden-
tity OF the men who early Tuesday
robbed the DALEY Cigar CO. ware
house at limerick st. and Jefferson
blvd. OF tobacco valued at 81, 500 has
been reported. Police officials be-
lieve an organized band OF young
men are responsible for many Of tho
recent robberies, since in most cases
3 clsarets and tobacco have always
I been taken.
The robbery of the Daley ware
house is thought TO have been done
shortly after midnight and entrance
10 the place was gained after the
barred windows had been ''j!m-
mied." Several cases Of the leading
! grades Of cigarets were taken by
! the maurauderS.
The investigation will be contin-
kued. police officials announced last
night, until the band is rounded up.
NEW YORK. Dec. 81. Armed
with repeating rifles 20 sharpshOot-
erS Of the New York police force
/ Tuesday night secured the city in
! automobiles in a hunt for bandits.
/ Clo ~ n nj n y
| from the police rife squad, was ac-
! companied by three detectives and
! uniformed patrolman. Under or
/ deTs 10 shoot every suspect who at
! tempted 10 escape them the men
/ searched the highways and byways
/ OF the city throughout the night
other drastic measures to curb
! New Nork's crime wave, which
\ Tuesday swept beyond the city's
border into nearby New Jersey
\ towns, were launched by police Of
ficials and judges.
Removal of Police Commissi oner
! Enright was proposed in a resolu-
/ ton introduced at q meeting OF the
| board Of alderman. The resolution
/ was tabled. however.
! An increase in the police force Of
769 men was authorized by the
! board Of estimates.
Bait Is Increased.
Judge Mcintyre Of the court OF
! general sessions ordered $50 per-
sons now on bail Of from $500 to
/ $4,000 on robbery charges TO ap-
| pear Wednesday, when he said their
! bail will be increased. IN five cases
! Tuesday men released on lower bail
! Tor similar charges were held in
/ S25, 600 each.
] - - III. Ss-o..-,,5 l..
/ Tuesdays crimes - an attempted
/ bank robbery in Midtown, the chic
reforming and robbiug Of a girl and
\ two holdups - gave orders that all
/ tube stations ard ferries in Jersey
/ city be kept under guard to prevent
] the influx Cf criminals driven from
| New York.
/ Speedy justice was meted out to
! two robbers captured Tuesday morn
! ing when a band OF four attempted
/ To- rob tho First National bank of
! Midtown. y. J. Within y hours aft.
1 or their capture by posse OF citi-
/ zens, they were under sentence Of
3 from four years and eight months to
| seven years in prison. Both had
! previous prison records.
TOLEDO. o.. Dec. 21.-Bandits
! continue 20 terrorize Toledo Citi-
| zeus Tuesday following n $16,5OO
! robbery ut the offices Of the Amerl-
| can Railway Express co. in which
/ ten guards were overpowered by
/ six masked men armed with shot
| guns Shortly before noon Tuesday
! three. auto bandits kidnapped w. o..
] Baldwin. bOokkeeper for the Ohio
I Dairy co. and took him to the out
/ skirts Of the city where they threw
! him from their automobile after
/ robblng him of $3.50. Baldwin was
/ seized while walking from his own
! automobile in the downtown section.
After beinG cverpowcred with
| ether Mrs. G. W. simmons was
| bound and gagged by two masked
! men who looted the home of every
/ thing Of value. The men removed q
/ front door screen, then entered the
/ house with n skeleton key. Mrs.
/ simmons is said 20 be in a critical
! condition from tire shock. Several
/ other houses and street robhcries
were reported to police today The
/ authorities have been unable to pick
/ a cICw TO the identity Of the s.N men
! who robbed the express company.