The Washington times., 1920-12-19
my. TREMBlES
IN CRIME GRIP
Thugs Menace Entire City.
Stay Old Man to Loot
ChiId's Bank of SO.

NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-With auto
bandits, armed thugs and despera-
does, some OF them equipped with
Maxim silencers, stalking their prey
in Greater New York both by day and
by night in a manner that would
make Jack Dalton or Jesse James
seem as poor amateurs, the crime
wave in the metropolis has not
abated
ARMED GUARDS IN STORES.
Merchants, terror stricken at the
latest series of hold-ups. have fol-
lowed the advice OF Richard Enright,
police commissioner, against whose
department there has gone up wall
OF protest by placing armed guards
in their stores and equipping their
messengers with weapons.
A summary of the more startling
crimes during the past twenty-four
hours as tabulated today shows.
The black lacking and robbery OF
two messengers in daylight of the
81, 900 payroll OF j. y. Bowden &c Co.
Police captured one of the highway
men and recovered the money.
The robbery of the eleven-year-o
son Of Mrs. Salvatore Pecoraro Of $500
which he was taking home from the
bank.
KILL OLD MAN FOR 81.
The staying of william VI. Lewis.
eIghty-nve, civil war veteran mt Rock
away, n. j., the assni1nnt using nm
axe TO batter In the aged mans mead.
| Loot consisted of 81 taken from "a
| chiId's bank.
Wife Of a prominent physician held
up in taxicab in Central Park and
robbed of more than $4,000 in jewelry
Salesman shot twice and mortally
| wounded by lone bandit in Brook
Ign.
! The hold-up of q number of men
engaged In "a poker game who were
relieves OF $500 mt the point OF
| pistol.
| The robbery of skirt and waist
| company of $1,000 worth of silks by
burglars who used an acetylene torch
| 10 cut through an iron door.
The binding of a clothing merchant
| whose store was then robbed.
The killing of A. c. Campbell, a
| wealthy insurance broker near his
| Riverside drive apartment, either by
: highwaymen or Automobiles.
HOLD UP TROLLEY CAR.
The robbery of twenty passengers
/ on a New Jersey street car of $500.
Numerous smaller robberies
Mayor John Hylan has called upon
citizens to arm for their own protec-
ton.
| The Merchants Association of New
| York and the Brooklyn chamber ef
/ commerce will met tomorrow to con-
: slider plans for more adequate pros
lection of life and property.
/ Commissioner Enright has organ
I lied flying automobile squadrons TO
hunt bandits.
Police in the Bronx have started
n nightly round up OF suspicious
characters in cafes and restaurants.
HORIZONS DYING PROTEST.
, More significant than these develop
ments was the publication of an ante
norton statement of Lieut. Floyd
Horton. killed in a battle with auto
bandits, revealing what an lnslder
considers to be wrong with the ponce
system Horizons analysis showed
there were fifty lieutenants and police
sergennts doing welfare work. that
$50 members of the police 'Bnnd ana
Glee CIub' just play and sing. never
doing police work, that 1000 "use'ess
details could he abolished" that the
..dctectiyc bureau is demOraliZcd.
that comfy influence counts" in pro-
motion of policemen, and that "oNcr
30 pcr cent Of the force were opposed
to Enright and all he stands for"
"Burslnries and rObbcrics ARE re-
ported as petit larceny whenever pos
siblc," Horton wrote. "Ihts ~ done
to bcfog the public"