The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-18
Wild WEST THR|VES
IN NEW YORK CITY
FILL THE LIVES
or PEOPLE OF THE CITY
ALMOST EVERY DAY.
CRIME RECORD STARTLES

Mare Than 100 Murders and Killings
;s+ad as Unsolved in the Fast
Var Loot Secured by Crooks Runs
I'm Into the Millions.
NEW YORK, N. View York
hos thrown away its nickel novel OF
,o2o TO begin reading the 1921 thriller
Of Dead Mans Gulch moved .0fe
u Broadway. oo
- With something like 400 robberies
add "stickups" on the newspaper lists
" crimes for the past year, and more
th,r 100 murders and killings set down
Nv news offices as "unsolved," the
new wear has had set for it penny
droadful record it will take two gun
men from Coyote canyon lifetime's
endeavor to beat.
ride from the Grand Central in a
.ox;cab now is conceded by leading
" r",(ne of the city to have nothing on
trim in the Deadwood stagecoach
odd the big hotels and restaurants
I amu IN as CHEEKY as the Santa Fe
Gloon tG in the wild west days OF the
S s%,. toter and the Bad Boy Ban
dts al Bloody Hollow. Twenty police
r;Remen patrol the streets at night IN
automobiles. The curfew rings out at
n,idnioht when Central park is closed
to yebicular and pedetrian traffic, and
an persons abroad must give account
~ themselves when asked.
Citizens Go Armed.
In the past month judges on the
+ criminal courts bench have urged tor
nation OF citizens committees on a
mar with the vigilantes of the frontier
s before il was accused of moving back
cast TO metropolitan centers. The
MAYOR has warned all persons carry
ING or possessing valuables to pro-
cnTe permits to arm themselves
against highwaymen and the police
s have tried to get back to something
ike first principles in life and property
protection.
Crimes have been chronicled as
though they were robbery and muir
81 der cyclones, and the subway news
naper reader has felt all the thrill OF
81 riding the Overland limited in the days
when Jesse lanes and his gang held
no prairie railroad immune from their
ravageS.
Estimates have placed about S4,-
100000 as the total value of loot OBJ
81 tanned by burglars, thieves and yegg-
men in New York during 1920. Day
light holdups, attacks in leading great
white way hotels and automobile
banditry have Welded much of the
valuahles stolen. AS many as forty
robberes and thefts have been teat-
ured for a months acts OF violence
of note and six such attempts III
s. day have been recorded.
Killings by the Score.
OF the more than 100 "unsolved
murders listed by some papers num-
Der now are nationally, if not inter
nationally, known. Beginning with a
killing last new years day, 1920's rec
ord started strong. Conspicuous in the
twelve months list were the murders
Sd OF Joseph B. E1well, Miss Renie Con-
stance Hoxie, and Frederick c. Eek
er Elwell known from coast to
coast as a whist expert and horse
man, was shot to death in his hand
Ell oOIllNlE iui ulSICu VIZ 1NNSAtANeAA
street home; Miss Hoxie, 1-year-
old girl was found mutilated in her
fathers house; Eckert, former gov
eminent agent and alleged whisky
runner was found shot dead in an
automobile in Staten island.
In the rObberies organized bands OF
gunner have seemed to predominant.
Ihefts OF valuable goods from rail-
road freight cars, bulking big in pack
& ing cases, have been considerable.
Stolen automobiles have been reported
constantly; But holdups of the old time
type, by day as we'll as night, on the
street, in the home, in hotels, where
masked and unmasked men have ia
ken what they wanted at the point Of
81 pistols, have called forth the hue and
cry against alleged inadequate police
# proteCtion.'
Automobile bandits have made off
with number of factory pay rolls
and banks have seen gunner walk in
ana demand money from the safe un-
DER penalty of instant death,