Show I Bank Robbers I 1 fHE HE American Bankers' Bankers association is alarmed I lj bec because use banks in the United lost I during the last six months t through rough burglaries and holdups This is said to be by far the largest sum for any similar similar period period in the history of the A. A B. B A. A Yet haven't the banks off gotten easily Almost every Saturday y payroll robberies and other thefts the country over must total a figure 1 that m makes kes look like a peck of German marks 1 Time was within the memory of many of ofus us s when banks were considered the special meat of f burglars Bank loot now totals big but its proportion to other robberies is relatively so small that it it discloses a changed strategy a aS S shifting in the attack b by underworld crooks on organized wealth There is a less lesson n in this for business concerns a accustomed to 10 take unnecessary chances by lugging lugging lugging lug lug- ging huge payrolls through city streets Pay wages and salaries by checks I There is another lesson Its It's for crooks both amateur and professional During the six months in which bank holdups and burglaries netted plunder arrests were made andi and i- i f this number have been convicted The electric chair the hangman's noose prison or poverty get every crook in the long tong 1 run Allan Pinkerton said that a half century ago go It holds true today |