| Show crook harvest ti arvest three ree billions experts figure cost for dishonesty in nation during was 30 per capita new york dishonesty in the united states last year paid an army AMY 0 of f burglars rubbers robbers forgers bucket shop oper operators atoM con confluence fiden c e men and common thieves more than conservative estimators place the eum sum at that Is approximately equlia equivalent lent to the internal revenue receipts of the federal gov eminent for the fiscal year 1022 it ie Is greater by than the imports of the country in 1021 it ie Is an a average tax on every man woman 0 mail and child in the country of more than 30 a year lose Iler merchants chants throughout the country last year wholesalers hole salers and retailers marked off sor something more than IW in bad accounts they charge this loss jois to opera operating tinge expenses ape ill s and the honest consumer foots tle tl e bills rail 1181 roads of the country last year paid in claims for goods lost by theft or burglary they retrieve that cum sum in higher rates Ill derine nir 1919 anti the early part of the VV 1020 according to an expert piracy in lie bew hew lork harbor and dock docks amounted to a year and probably half as much for other sea ports of the tile country ol lillo 1 that loss la Is no now reduced it Is till still conold considerable emble he be says jeweler jewelers alone lost more molt than in robberies in 10 1022 ten train holdups and twenty mall mail track truck robberies from april 8 1020 1 M to april 30 1021 yielded bandits a haul bout of if united states worth railroads of he the country last ear pa paid III claims of nearly IZ for thefts of freight in 1021 1 this lose loss was more tian chicago s theft and robbery lose loss in 19 1022 exclusive of automobiles as reported pa rt by the police department wae was of which wae was not recine during 1921 1 in delphia with approximately IT per cent of the counie coundrie coun trie a population 10 IM robberies and larcenies were reported port ed with ith a loss of 1 W am ex elusive of automobiles of that sum 1224 4 wag uns not recovered in the came same year 2 automobile automobiles were stolen and 1031 n with ith a value of 1 were not recovered in five cities in 1921 new york chicago detroit cleveland and angeles 8 0 stolen automobiles were not rc recovered covered on one day lat last year december Dec emter er 0 20 0 N new eav I 1 forks list lilt of stolen prope property arty totaled 41 and philadelphia s 1 1 1 aw a loss for the two cities at a rate of joo oooo a it rear year bradstreet records for 1922 show that failures of business busine qs firms were nere due directly to fraud and evry other man in lie tile jalle and penitentiaries of the country Is there for a crime against property of the ill prison population shown shon by the census of 1910 there were vere robbers lam 18 burglars 80 thieves a total of before the war insurance experts e estimated that there were three bur glardes for aery fire now they expect seven burglaries for every fire |
