Show of bank robbers A visitor to the new york head of a detective agency noticed a large map of the united states profusely decorated with little flags a few of them red but most of them white looks like a war map commented the visitor and most of the fight ing seems to be in the middle frest our bank robbery map ex the head of that particular department its a little scheme of my own i the red flags mark robberies in banks belonging to the association that retains us the white flags rep resent robberies in banks that are not members of this association each flag is inscribed with the details of the robbery it represents the map is corrected from day to day and it gives us a pretty fair iea of the general situation at a glance we keep it hanging on the wall there throughout the bank robbery season the bank robbery season yes that begins about sept 1 when the nights beg n to get long there s comparatively little safe cracking out of season when tha nights are short A job of that kind takes time |