Show Jewelers in Constant Warfare on the Crook Other r lines of business which suf suf suffer fer er hol ups und anti sneak thievery might t find It profitable to study the methods metho s by which Jewelry concerns con concerns concerns con con- cerns banded together In tile the Jewelers Jewelers' Jewelers Jewelers' Jewel Jewel- ers ers' S Security Alliance of ot the United States are making the operations of Jewelry crooks steadily more dangerous danger danger- ous and arid less profitable The cro crooks its have many tricks For ForS S example there theSe Is 19 th the fruit eater cater If It the Jeweler je docs does not riot watch him carefully carefully care care- fully he will press press a stone or ring Into an apple core or a n squeezed orange and throw t the e fruit truit Into the street for his accomplice to pick up The he gum gum chewer substitutes es a false stone for forn a n real one and sticks the latter by means of at gum under the edge of ot the counter until he lie gets a n chance to remove remore I It without being I. I discovered The umbrella carrier drops valuable articles Into the umbrella um urn- brella arid and and so on Toe Tile alliance keeps Its members member InI Informed In In- I formed about these these I de devices es and antI methods for circumventing them As Asa a result the value of at Jewelry stolen from members during 1030 was kept down to about which Is Is surely a n remarkable- remarkable showing Just recently the Jewelry crooks I have ha turned kidnaper They go early arb In the morning to the home of a n jeweler jeweler jew jew- eler a gun In his ribs force him to to their lr car and take him to his hl's I store where h he be Is made macIc to open the safe sate and give up whatever articles the robbers wan want This trick Is new but butr the alliance has as already developed devel dowel ped dd a mst most Ingenious way to meet It The s-The l e crooks rooks are sm smart smart rt but but the al alS alliance al- al S liance- liance experts eirts appear to be le Just a n shade shalle Frank Frank Frank A A. A Fall In the Outlook Out and Independent I |