New-York tribune., 1922-04-11
5000 Men in Citizens
Corps To Be Mobilized
for Active Police Duty.
as Crime Is Unchecked
rs of Street Force
Made Night Riders
$40, 900 Robbery in Park
Avenue; Bandit Shot;
l4Caught in Roundup

Police Commissioner Enright made
some radioal moves yesterday to stem
The tide of burglary and banditry.
On top of the 1892 extra men given
him BY the Board OF Estimate last Fri
dsg, the Commissioner ordered yester-
day that the 5000 police reserves be
roblized for active duty
He directed also that rs members
Of the motorcycle squad be detached
from the Traffic Division and assigned
% patrol the streets at night. Six
fast automobile5 used by deputy po-
lice commissioners were transferred
TO the Detective Bureau for the pursuit
Of bandits. To these there soon will
be added five more cars, for which the
Commissioner has asked and which, he
says, he will request the Board of
Alderman today to permit him to pur-
chase at once without public letting
to save time.
Mrs. Francis Burial Hoffman. sister
Of Albert F. Shattuck, asked Senator
Calder yesterday to interest himself
In behalf Of Commissioner Enrights
plan for a national crime bureau at
Warrington.
Thefts and shootings Continue
Meanwhile the record of robberies
ana shootings continue 20 mount, with
several holdupS and .bul.s larus added
the list yeste rday
Ihe order for the calling out of the
ponce reserves was sent by the Com
nlssicner to Special Deputy Police
COMMISSIONER Rodnian Wanamaker.
MI. "anamsker was requested to have
Ine reserves report at the police sta
uons IN their respective precincts for
assignment to day and night patrol
ahd detective service. Reserves who
possess automobiles or horses will be
asked TO place them at the disposal of
the Police Department for the emer-
Gency
The SQUAD of seventv-hve motorcycle
men we're Impressed into service
shortly after sundown and continued
me patrol of streets until sunrise
They were in charge Of Acting Captain
Anthony Howe, and iu~ addition to
Watching for speeding bandits kept an
eve on traffic conditions.
Only in the furthost Manhattan pre-
rlncts did any considerable number OF
Police Reserves report for duty last
right, About thirty showed up at the
West 177th Street police station and
zero assigned TO posts. Half that num-
bcr repo rteed at the West 152d Street
I olioc station and were sent out or
patrol
On the West Side below that pre-
Cnct not member of the crganiza
ton was on duty.
In the downtown precincts, covering
the wholesale districts of the lower
West Side the congested East Side and
The financial district, few Police Re
serves were on duty
Three reported at the Fifth Street
police station and we're assigned to
posts. None of the volunteer police
men put in an appearance at any OF
fae other downtown police stations
at stations in the Bronx it was said
that no reserves were on duty.
District Attorney Banton said that
on next Monday he will start the
trial Of the first of the 262 cases of
robbery, burglary and pistol welding
That are on the calendar. He hoped
Ten courts would be in continuous ses-
Son hearing these cases.
When we get started" said the
pistrict Attorney. "a burglar or rob
per will not get day of delay in these
courts
$4,000 Robbery March is
1t became known yesterday that bur-
Sars broke into the home of Mrs
Martha McCracken, SIS Park Avenue,
and removed silverware, clothing, jew
cry and ic-a-brac valued at between
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