The New York herald., 1922-04-13
Crime TAKES SPURT.:
JUDGES GET SEVERE
Boy Caught After Holding
Up Broadway Store and
Shooting Clerk.
PHANTOM THIEF TAKEN
Two Brooklyn Shoe Stores
Held Up and Robbed in
Daylight.
HEAVY BAIL is DEMANDED
Hirshfield for Hylan De-
nounccs Those Seeking
Police Inquiries.

In the twenty-four hours up to this
morning New York exploded with
crime. All efforts so far made by
Hylan and Enright 10 restore public
safety and reasonable degree OF or
der have failed to impress criminals
and cut down the long list of daily
bandtry.
Robbery after robbery, the midafter-
noon holdup of store in crowded
Broadway and the shooting of the
young clerk who resisted the invading
thug; the capture, just off Fifth ave-
nuc, of the phantom burglar, evil
genius of the municipal and private
policemen guarding the Fifth avenue
residential district; pistol battle be-
tween the police and silk thieves yes
terday morning just around the cor
ner from Madison Square Garden the
robbery of two Beck Hazard shoe
stores on this side of the East River
after two others of that chain had
been cleaned out in Brooklyn the day
before; the death in st. Vincent s
Hospital of Daniel Murphy. shot while
defending a trucllload OF goods from
robbers: a desperate duel between po-
lice and bandits in the Borough Park
district of Brooklyn and the mysteri-
Gus stabbing of man in Long Island
City, an unforeseen Incident, inter-
rupting an important drug arrest, were
only the outstanding episodes of Grim
inal grist poured out of the great
mill of New York life.
Judges severe to CuIprits.
In official circles. judges and magis-
trstes acted with emphatic severity, fol-
lowing the line taken by Justice Finch
in the Criminal Branch Of the Supreme
Court. who laid down this dictum: I'VE
are going to get rid of highway rob-
tences which they expect should dis
courage crime in the future Chief Mag
fstrate William McAdoo, replying to re-
ported criticisms of the magistrates
courts by District Attorney Banton. de-
clared his associates arc not passing
the buck" to the District Attorneys
Office but are doing their work UP to
the limit of time and endurance: an
announcement made by David Hirsh-
field. Commissioner of Accounts. which
indicates that the city administration
Is not pleased with the forthcoming in
quiry into the Police Department by the
State Chamber OF Commerce and the
Chamber of Commerce of Brooklyn, and
a declaration by Mayor Hylan that En-
right will get all the men allowed by
the Board of Estimate. because the
money would be found when needed.
Board of Trade Resolutions.
The following resolutions were adopted
by the Board of Trade yesterday after
u discussion of the crime situation
Resolved. That the New York
Board of Trade and Transportation
welcomes and commends the timely
and energetic action of Gov. Miller
in approving the necessary icgisla-
tion and in confronting the police Of
ficials, the District Attorney and the
Criminal Courts with the demand
that they make New York a safe
place In which to live. or take the
responsibility for failure SO to do.
Resolved, That the president of
this board be authorized TO appoint
a special committee of such number
as he may deem proper to consider
the crime crisis and to take such
steps independently or by coopera-
tion with other organizations as In
the wisdom OF the committee the
situation demands.
over in Brooklyn, where there Is
distinct field of crimes Of violence day
after day, the new Public Safety Com
mittee Of the Chamber of Commerce ap-
pointed by President J. Henry Will
liams held It's first meeting to consider
ways and means of investigating police
ineptitude, while here in Manhattan
President Darwin r. Kingsley of the
State Chamber of Commerce announced
a meeting az 3 to-day of the joint COM
mittees OF Public Welfare and Public
Service at which a leader to conduct
the police inquiry will be named. the
regular chairman of the two commit
tees. Union ". Bethel and William Nc
Carroll being confined TO their homes
by illness.