Show modern thieves have new tricks growth of banking habit drives crooks to holdups try many schemes new york Th thieves leves with few exceptions prefer hard cold cash to anything else and paper money since it Is light and easy to carry Is preferable to silver coin which if 1 there Is much of it Is heavy and unwieldy thieves always like to get cash ash if possible they the can usually get rio rid of it without trouble next nest to currency they prefer je elry ulry especially genis gema of good quality qu allt they like jewelry jc elry because it lias has a largo large monetary value and like paper money it Is easy to handle liand lc A small stone worth or more takes tit up little space in n vest pocket hut jewelry Is not as easily disposed of its as money even it if sold to toa a fence tile the purchaser ns as a rule will not give tile llie beller seller belleran anything an thing like what lie he shoula receive for the bauble and then the fence Is liable to ile be taken in by I 1 tile lie police and squeal on ills his customer tile the ordinary burglar steals jewelry purely for mercenary reasons lie ile does docs not know enuch about precious pre cloua stones but lie he Is a poor burglar it if ile he cannot tell the difference between a paste diamond and it real one anil and lie ho knows that a real gem gein lias has it 11 reidy ready market Exper experience jence also has taught him that the average apartment house dweller no longer keeps ills money in a sack or behind the family faintly clock on tile the parlor mantel mantel lie ile knows the head af of tile family faintly carries a check chec ac book ind puts ills cash in the bank every ever wick and does not leave loose change for snooping intruders to pick up hunts for jewelry so tile the thief often Is disappointed in ills his visits to apartments nt at not fill ind ing the coveted cash and turns to other things of value it if people have become more careful lit in handling money they have not greatly improved in in protecting other valuables and it if the departs with little cash lie he usually can pick up a few articles of jow jewelry elry a watch vatch or two a few rings and stickpins stick pins A pair of apartment dwellers rb returning front from the lie theater or a late supper or dunce dance tire nie usually tired hence in their tired and sleepy condition they do not take the pains to place their valt valuables abs in ili a faintly trunk or vault but leive them carelessly on bureau or table or in a partly closed dresser drawer and when the burglar pays the lie couplin a lilt visit lie he knows just where to ind find the articles lie he Is after it Is the opinion of nn an old time detective that th atthe the city holdup man un known in the metropolis until a few years ago Is a product of the recent school of criminals who believe in taking the lie cash and tind letting the credit go most of these vicious criminals i tire out purely for the cash hence their visits to cigar stores small shops and similar places and tile the practice of a bolder type to go after pay rolls law large and small follow victims home not infrequently these thieves in descending sc se on a drug store or shop eliop have robbed the lie cash register and gone through the lie pockets of proprietors und clerks clerics without making tin an effort to take articles of jc eliy front from tj ahse ae persons in a recent store holdup tho I 1 thieves took what articles of jewelry they believed were valuable from their victims and passed up tit articles firtl ies that they considered of small or doubtful value one of tile the clerks clerics in this establishment wore a small email diamond stickpin the holdup man mail examined i 1 it unit then shook ills his head doubtfully as much as to say its not worth much holdup men have tun ed i their attention to new schemes which i have given the police no little pon on rem it Is characteristic character tic of thieves to it think up tip new oil and original Ineth methods of procedure oneff one of their eions Is to follow well weil dressed men inen rind gem be decked women to their homes and then hold old them up A few months ago two men inen and two women after visiting a cabaret downtown dropped in ili at an all night lunchroom r for ii n eglit repast before going home it happened that thieves were dining in tile the same lunchroom they observed tile gems tile the women ere re wearing aind the lie dressed prosperous us appearance of their escorts when the four left in ili a taxi th alia thieves hilled another taxi an and 1 I followed thein to their apartment house the hie two couples had bud no lie entered the lie lobby of tile the house than the hola tili plen intercepted held thell up lip alli stripped thein of money and bibles storekeeper Is tricked recently it a storekeeper on nn one hun died it ed and Twenty fifth beet A R a e in ills 1114 shop when a youth auth entered ind sed some razor blades lie ho I 1 lid down several colas most anost of than perin pennies les tool took tile blades hi ides and departed dep aried llie file storekeeper counting lit up tile the change found that the customer had not given hlin enough running from f rom the store lie he intercepted him in tile the street iley son said the lie storekeeper you 1011 are 0 cents short the buth surprised and till du dug down don in fit ills its pocket for the lie balance 11 in doing 11 g so lie he dropped several bial pennies on oil the lie sli sidewalk lewalk which rolled out of sight 1 I lini ent tiny nii more inore change lie ho apologized here tire aie your jour razor bindes lie ile harried away ani ani wilen file lie returned to ills his shot shop lie discovered discolored tint that some one tin biad entered in ills absence and li id touched the cash register for 23 |