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Show -rrniCK TURPIN rode a horse. JLJJ So did Jesse James. f When the modern bandit starts on the trail of a rr,x"" fat pay-roll, however, he uses a high-powered motor car, and in his efforts to keep pace with the fertile brains of the inventor and the business man he may soon take to armored tanks and aeroplanes. Pitting his nerve and ingenuity against business and science, the bandit apparently recognizes no limitations, and American business busi-ness is watching with keen interest the effect that transportation trans-portation of money by aeroplane and armored motor car will have on the rising tide of business crime. "The robbery waa perfectly timed. The (armored car, which only a few minutes but'ore had brought the monej. had just disappeared disap-peared when the robbers entered the office. The cashier was about to put the box containing the moni cy into the safe when it was snatched from her by one of the robbers who pointed a pistol at her. He then backed out of the oLHue and was followed by his com; panioiifj who had threatened others in the office with pistols. The w hirl of a motor outside an instant Dll lakes V vines &-:v . m0i ? tvv r wtfc:'" ' Armored cars for the transportation ot currency, equipped witn machine guns, and cash boxes which can be 'automatically drawn back to the car by an attached chain are arnong the recent devices for the protection of pay-roils from bandits. v' 1 . Transportation of pay-roll funds through the air i3 a logical development devel-opment In tlie progress of aviation, and an eastern contractor has recently re-cently blazed the way by making op his pay-roll and transporting it to his building operation by aeroplane, aero-plane, arriving just in time to pay oft. The attention that has been attracted to this device may be expected ex-pected to result in a more or leas extensive use of this method of transporting large sums of money, and as a consequence police officials are already beginning to consider what steps can be taken to combat the air bandit. ' Bandit Careless of Life Tbo, pay-roll bandit cares little for. human life, argue the police. Almost tvery day's newB carries a story of a pay-roll robbery, with its grim accompaniment of death vteMTer resistance is offered. Therefore, It is not jvithout the realm - of probability to contemplate contem-plate a modern Dick Turpin taking tak-ing to the air with machine gun , mounted on the fuselage, and forcing forc-ing down the pay-roll plane with th same technique that he has exhibited ex-hibited In. forcing money-carrying automobiles off the road at pistol's point . .Even, as the freebooter of old lay in wait behind some headland for the . richly ladened treasure ship, so does the land pirate of today to-day ferret out the pay-roll messenger mes-senger and strike at a strategic time and place. It may be on a ewiftly moving express train, ay ; demonstrated , recently when $41). 000 intended for a Pennsylvania mine was taken from a messenger who lost his life in defense of the money. Or it may be as carefully timed -as another very recent holdup, hold-up, in which, the weekly pay-roll of a New. York manufacturing plan; was taken by three armed bandits a moment after it was delivered to the ofllcea of the plant from an armored car. Strategic Point Selected t Sometimes the route of the treasure treas-ure is so carefully checked thai the one unsuspected weak point in what was thought to be a perfect defense Is discovered by the bandit to be in a passenger elevator, or ome other equally unusual place. direct tNoCd-r .C0"clructi0" Arm is using an aeroplane to frport : 1 of poas.b.e'tcr c-d II Vv m Occupants 0, the plane flo armed - . P -inie to.c.d l.,mJin.j or attempted hold up. ft effect of. surprise attracted nationwide nation-wide attention a few. weeks ago. The pay-roll of a large industrial plant .had been made up. and the paymaster was making his rounds of the huildtroi. paving oft. At the foot of a stairway a man was standing, stand-ing, apparentlv engrossed in a newspaper. As the paymaster , passed him the stranger drew his pistol and demanded the mone j Two other bandits suddenlv ap-j ap-j peared with drawn revolvers, and I the paymaster and two other employees em-ployees were forced into a small room while the hold-up men escaped es-caped with $8,000. And so the storv $oea. the fertile brain of the bandit ever active in. his quest of easilv won wealth-Sometimes wealth-Sometimes his work -has a much or Lhe casual, as he .strolls into an oiUce, picks tip a few thousands and walku leisurely out- Afxaln ha comoR .almoHt, Willi a blare,., of trumpets. l(ike the robber baron of old. Hut always he uses the method meth-od best calculated , to resulr in a . transfer of possesion of a considerable consid-erable sum of money. Every payroll, pay-roll, fair game for hi in, and it in Indeed an opttmfstic prophet who would forecast, his defeat by a general gen-eral use of aeroplanes as treasure ships. Business Has New Plan . . Damlilry has continued to in-cieane in-cieane with lhe expansion of industry in-dustry and the ronsrfpieiu increase in opportunity for proGf able holdups. hold-ups. Other types of criminals wIkj prey on hu.;nesa have not had such easy sailing, however. For instance, in-stance, the forger has found his formerly easy livelihood seriously menaced. Cheek writing machines, Chicago furnished the most recent case of an elevator robbery, in which the operator of the car wa:; clubbed into iusensibilhy when he attempted to escape the hold-up men, the car run to the street level , by one of the bandits and the ct-away ct-away made. The vast majority of pay-roll rob-.beries rob-.beries have one out standing characteristic char-acteristic they show knowkdj.'1 of the safest place to strike. Frequently, Fre-quently, tli ere is evidence of "inside" "in-side" co-operation, but more often the success of tho bandit ts dae merely to weeks of checking up on the specific pay-roll ho intends to steal. Few "Water Hauls" It is indeed si Idom that a bandit stages a hold-up where there is i:o money. The inTormalion on which he acts is almost invariably correct, cor-rect, and if he loses out it is because be-cause tome detail in his careful plan has bf en overlooked, or tho;-.e guar il in:: the money e:;h:bit morn than the aver;. nerve. Fr b.iihli:. lias secrecy in his frn; He k:.u'.v-i lo a ct itainiy wiien ;i:i i wh'-.Te lie will stnk'-. r.ad t.t';c, mi advantage of h: ,; a. ..a. i. ;n e I h ;. ' his v!c;:::i will b uau.TV.;u by t.-surpri: t.-surpri: e ;r. t:;ck. Ti.e foil.o-.vi.ig extr:er from the newspaper aeeenut of one of I h recent pay roll rohbe' jes 'uy-i va 's dramatically the st rate ;y of I he. bandit : , later indicated that the men had made their getaway in an automobile." automo-bile." Eold Street Hold-ups 1 Pandits are not spectacular be-1 i cause they crave publicity. Some j of i heir most daring exploits have) a far iU're Lnsin-ssliK.; found it ton : Tiny luunv, for instance, thau oa a: crowded thoroughfare the. pay-roll is likely io hi less carefully guarded. guard-ed. They know ;ilso tliat tlie average aver-age irsnoceut bystander ia not. going go-ing to tnke a chance on being tin-central tin-central lif.ure in a lirst-clas funeral nic-rcly for liie jirivi'ee of saving -somebody else's money. A robbery tli;i t nn',-ht have i'ur-ni.uju i'ur-ni.uju a movie thriller was recently recent-ly e(i,;;;ii::ui:ated on a busy down-tow down-tow -i alroct in Chie:io. Six band ts in iuo automobile.-? trailed ;in au-rr.mob.le au-rr.mob.le ciintaiuinr a SiU.aui) p y-rol! y-rol! for .i.n'eral b locks. Final I v Jaey majouvered tin- pay-roll ear to the curb by the siraple cxve- lieu t of posing it -and blocking !!!: v:v wifh lb-, i'" larT'T iie.'.clnaes. '1 he p iy r'i; car was' wr.-. Ul. and i ',i ''.: ill-' I'dUp:!!;.,- (MMlid coil-ei I - V r r.-.en-'y ,u:d ha v.ix were e'-f a ('(' 1 e.f dust in the distune;-., j 'i'liv i ::iv.i v.hlth imiuediaiely j rxd Ik; il -' - ti ::ut.liiu but the ( i'.r. .:!;. and did not reali.e for se-j se-j rai :ai ;iil.s that a roldiery had ial;i h r-l'iec Ano'her instance of the mannf:r in which (he bandit eapitaliy.es the remarks hlo development in safely paprr :ind the ac.:ivity nf in.-un aae'e coin pan les and ba ulcers ' o.'ani.-a tions have made his call'n;; hazanl-ous hazanl-ous in the f :c!r-jme. Talcing ;u. vantage of Chis greater sr-.t'ety uf the check, business men are tinning tinn-ing to it as a means of avoiding the handling nf lav- sums of t iv roll money, Using th- n-.osi proved cheek writing ia whine., safety pnper pro.!ue. l.y pr.ee.se:, ihnt make euece.-i'n! ei..,-;( aii.-ra-tinn. practically ijnj.n moIc. th .y are defeating the I- ; u 1 1 it by !;: i their cash in bank vaults. For years the ha.anl m forgery hindered the usi oi t.h,. pay roll check. Science and in vein !,:1V0 Uyy -''-l Uiis proldetn ,muvvir' the business m-ul js ul,A'h he ovules by signing his Mani0." - i'heek with safej.u,,; -Elective as tUos, '"' 'ennneut ,n p.odueins; V iAU'Vi Iu ' Nu ill Hnvl- 1,11 ' ( uc-eKs avo pro- ' :U,",;1M,:',-- for ii thev were ni,; U:v '--'M be oa, of a job 1 ''' .V:1-- '1,lf sm'h Woiecum j ; -Hi as a n,:,,,,,,,,,, ! , I"" ir;i' -1 r-row-,n- 'Mc raphhty. Collai;.,-,,! C.Mietit ,,' (' tHun-th of (hl, ,l;1Y. -l1:lL'llll,'-'-;en1en, ,f the use of banks by the' of concerns adoplinS Onoe the (MiiplnyfO n,'f:: chock system he is lm; bty in hearty accoid wj1- ' he'd up man is tho only loses. t If the pay ro d' displace cash payim. ' business will save miH': It bus now being sp?l " prolrct money in tr;i" baus and industrial r'-1' is an added reason lo uess man is seirins t1-'-" li the pay roll vhccU as & " JfJ n serious dilemuui. |