Show Ways of Criminals An interesting sidelight on the ways of professional jonal criminals is given iven in a magazine article which declares that cities where th these e gentry entry habitually congregate to spend their loot are arc seldom the of their banditry The writer cities the case of To- To Toledo Toledo To Toledo ledo once known as ns being unus unus- unus- unus unusually free from underworld under crime yet all the time it it was the rendezvous rendezvous for safe-crackers safe hold up hold men and other desperate crooks It was an written un law bw among them that no jobs were to be pulled off of in Toledo and althou although h the poli police knew of their presence they were not molested because as the chief said ald We never ne both both- bother bother bother er them because the never both both- bother bother bother I er us Finally a new v police commission commission- commissioner I er was appointed and when he learned of the situation ho he n a up clean-up Then to to quote the ar- ar article ar article tide There were immediate re- re retaliations re retaliations Safes began beg to explode like firecrackers on the Fourth ups ups Hold became as common as measles Cops shot hot crooks and crooks shot cops Today Toledo is no longer immune One difficulty said to be exper exper- experienced in catching present day present criminals of the professional class is that many of their old under under- underworld underworld underworld world haunts which were formerly known well known to the police have been n broken up The crooks are scatter scattered scattered I ed throughout hout the cities often oten liv- liv liv living ing lag in comparative security In class hIgh class nei neighborhoods Thus liV 1 n a anew anew new and serious complication of the criminal problem has ha arisen arisen for which no solution ap appears rs to tobe tobe tobe be forthcoming I I |