| Show jewelers in constant warfare on the crook other lines of business which suf fer from holdups and sneak thievery might find it profitable profit profi ible tible to study the methods by which 1500 jewelry con ceras cerns banded tether inthe jewel ere era security alliance of the united states are making the operations of jewelry crooks steadily more danger ous and less profitable the crooks have many tricks for example there Is the fruit eater if the je jeweler veler does not watch him carefully he will press a stone or ring into an apple core or a squeezed orange and throw the fruit into the street for his accomplice to pick up the gum chewer substitutes a false stone for a real one and sticks the latter by means of gum under the edge of the counter until he gets a chance to remove it without being discovered ered the umbrella carrier drops valuable articles into the urn brella and dad so on the alliance keeps leeps its members in formed about these celces del ces and methods for circumventing them As a result the alue of jewelry stolen from members during 1930 was kept down to about which Is surely a remar remarkable lable showing just recently the jewelry crooks have turned kidnaper kd naper they go early in the morning to the home of a jew eler stick a gun in his ribs force h him im to their car and take him to his store where lie Is made to open the safe and gle he up whatever articles the robbers want this trick Is new but the alliance has alrea already dy developed a most ingenious cupy to meet it the crooks are smart but the alliance experts appear to be just a shade frank A fall in the outlook and independent Ind pendent |
