Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-10-19 | Page 15 | Gangland Life Romance Gets Blame for Crime

ROMANCE GETS BlAME fOR Paris Officials of f Police Police- p li er Would Halt Tale of V Rackets V VV V By MINOTT SAU SAUNDERS D RS NEA Service Wr Writer ter PARIS Oct 18 18 Tho 18 Tho of n Chicago gangland n I is Js now be t V blamed for or a a. wave of I crime that that has broken out In France 1 It may be a a. coincidence but ban i of or a peculiar nature Is greatly troubling tho the police and In their their- investigations th they y profess to find American methods employed have o become alarmed and are arc arcing work I ing lag energetically to break up gangs t r o the danger becomes worse becomes Wo worse fc The press has observed that th the C crime wave grew since two VO Paris Pari newspapers have hava been giving Ing big publicity to tho the operations of or criminal gangs In iii tho the larger Amen Amil can ean cities A series of ot articles article by k George London on the und underworld world pr off Chicago appeared in Iii Lo LI Journal Joun describing de d scribing his hit personal investigations there thelo and reporting his Interviews with gangsters gangster b. b Another Paris PuIs newspaper hus bus conducted d an Into the time causes of or gang Warfare arf re Inthe in inthe inthe the United States STIR IMAGINATION The Tha suggestion la JI that the these theu stories of or how t tV V expert gangsters oP op- op crate liars have stirred tho the Imagination of or criminal classes and furnished Ideas that might bo applied hm hai net Robberies and attacks of or a a. bold Da- Da ture lure have been referred to toas as parallels paral paral- leIs Ida of or American lawlessness i. i Detectives have been make inks many captures and they report that most or of tho the crimes hero here have havo botn been committed d by youths or in 1st rainy cases mere mere- boys boyi who have b banded to together eUer ready to take desperate de rate chances and to shoot quickly if ln- ln with They are described as amateurs but the they are all all themore the the- Uie more dangerous because the they have e big Ideas V buch lIch expressions as taken tort for a. a ride and on the spot are r. r printed in iTt English and become common common phrases cs Edgar Wallace Play of ot tho time Chicago underworld On th the Spot Is la show ln ing at a a. loc local theat theatre t When Jack Inck Diamond was as being hounded about Europe o in an nn at attempt attempt tempt to get some sonic free footing his Na adventures ad were gl given en much pu publicity pub pub- and an air of oC captivating mystery was was' created about king of ot New X Yorks York's rk's underworld SORRY TO MISS HIM One columnist wrote r gr u uY Y that he did not come to Francs France be because because be- be cause causa he would be bo an an Inter interesting study and we we have heard BO 80 much about him that w we are are sorry to miss him Another and moro serious writer Hiler ventured to state that atAl Al C Capone Ca- Ca pone pone is one of ot the b best st known AmerIcans Americana Amer Amer- leans to French schoolboys schoolboys' s o of the kind that like Jlko blood and thunder stories Ono One type of ot oil crime me that has aroused public Indignation here is ii that ride tx taxicab taxi taxi- of oC taking for a. a a cab driver Th Tho stunt is to engage enge a taxi and give glye an address ss in the outskirts There Ther the chauffeur is isy overpowered y po re beat beaten up up and and o ofte t snot snot anu ana tuen rOI ro ca THIS nail nas nailI been I ien repeated so often otten that the tha chauffeurs chauffeurs' union 1 la 18 trying to got trot police permission to allow ollow its Us members mem meni- bers to work armed Th There re liars have been several Instances nc of ot bandits knocking out out- a driver leaving him I by the roadside and land taking the car carback c r hack back to the city where it w was s 's aban abatt- Bandits have also b nop crating with powered high-powered cars and nd pulling holdups on quiet highways TAKE DRASTIC STEPS Prefect of ot Police Jean Chiappe has taken drastic measures to cleanup clean up Paris and he has established for forthe tho the first time here a corps o of f mo- mo p police Uco to patrol the outlying outly- outly ing districts and be prepared t to give gln pursuit to bandits The underworld has been combed tot tor or suspicious characters Among those who have been found guilty are several sc youngsters whoso careers career have been short but whoso whose am nm ambitions m in crime were astonishing For some time there has bc yi yiA A nf A of ot criminal gangs j 1 in Marseilles ia il bringing inflUence influence ence on local affairs and disturb disturb- disturbIng disturbing ing labor unions ns b but t Paris pris has lias been singularly free of this sort pf of ot thing Tho The apache so sowell well Known In legend is practically extinct like the bad man of ot the Golden w West st but in his place has come como the he smoother criminal who app appears ars tobo tobe to tobo bo be taking a lesson from i gangland j