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Show AMERICAN CROOKS TEACH PARISIANS Robbery in U. S. Manner Common Com-mon in Paris. New York. An ( American crime wave is lapping the shores of France and robbery "in the American manner" man-ner" is being practiced along the Paris boulevards by young Frenchmen French-men "of the better class" under the tutelage of 5,000 American crooks posing in the fashionable hotels as prosperous business men, according to a French police official, who has come to learn methods of crime prevention. pre-vention. Rene Cassellari, former police commissioner com-missioner in Paris, arrived here to study American methods of signals and other means of checking crime. He said that holdups of jewelry stores and banks had so increased in Paris that "we have become appalled." He said that not the Apaches, but the sons of middle-class families were taking up two-gun crime as the result of examples set them by American robbers who swarmed Europe. These Americans, he asserted, were almost impossible to trace, as, instead of occupying underworld haunts and the "bright-light" resorts, where the local criminals flock, they live in the best hotels, dress richly and well and look just like "the average well-to-do American living abroad." |