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Show 9 Sweeping Roundup Of Criminals Under Full Swing H 11 ,100 POLICE 10 RESERVES ; HBH0OK5 'Former Officers of World War Arm and Organize to E ONE NIGHT DRAGNET I BRINGS 150 ARRESTS One Alleged Highwayman 1 Shot and Killed in Resist- H .'t;Y YORK, Dec. 20. The most I J lf sweeping round-up of crooks and sua- 1 picious characters in the history of II New York was under full swing today f H by tho city's police force of 11,000 I men, augmcitf I i.;, -t.'.iO reserves, in VLb an effort to stem the Wave of crime W H startled tho metropolis last week. More than 150 persons were caught lu f the drag net last night. v While detectives and "strong arm" SBIBIBIBIBB men of New York's police fori i IiLbbibibibI combed the city under orders to round up every suspected criminal, former H commissioned officers of the H navy and marine crops launched plans H for an organization 80,000 armed jH men to aid in curbing the epidemic of crime sweeping tbe The New York Chapter, Military M Order of the World War, called upon iH the former officers to arm tbomselvi - and .t the same time announced plains 1 sS a meeting tonight to which Mayor I jH Eiylari, I'olice Commissioner Enrighi Governor Smith were invited. ! H I t.w si nun j i RIMES, lutsli . "t tbi ",i ine of pelt: fl thievery, burglary and minor lf . - Mystery confronted tbe polici In l tigaling the death ot A. P. Campbell, insurance broker, who jf found at Third avenue and SSrd street. H Thursday morning. An autopsy HH ed death v caused bj a t. tured skull. Ifl Police stations In outlying districts arere called upon to furnish "etrons Ll arm" men for duty in Manhattan today officers Weer stationed from tin JB i i i mm tomobjliata were Stopped and qui::- fl 1 1 idet orders ol Comml slonei En fl right suspected crooks, apprehend- l ed by the police and unable to give sat- i isfuctory accounts of themselves, were fl to be taken to police headquarters i ordered to leave the cltv or co to Jail. bbbbbbbb1 VIA ING SQI VDRON. V a flying BquadroD ( fourteen auto- ( mobiles, manned by police reaervee, ivas organized tonlgbl and put on Jut- bjbbbb Manhattan, Brooklyn and Bronx. Five reservists, under com- nmnd of a reserve captain, were as- fl lo H Antonio Como, alleged highwayman ' ;i plain Stewart oi the Newdrop, Sta- Lianaae! ten aland police, Polio teni to I a sjl bjsjfl bj everal oten ifl Como resisted arrest and during th. struggle with Stewart was shot and mmm Como's companions escaped. A watch once the property of President Grant und other articles valued at see- fl era! thousands ivere stolen Satun ' Jm night by robbers who entered th mM Washington Square home of Mrs. Cecil Sartor la, Oram's grand- daughter. Mrs. Si it oris wits abaent. I STEAL R1 s-.i n SVBIil S It v 'Vfl included S.000 lrrench Ira ncs, Jewell , 'bbbbbbbbbbI gowns, Hussian sables and a fur coai m Mrs. Sartorls is vice president of the IH French Restoration Pund and the m Prench was hidden in papers Ll pertaining to this work. H Detective William Boy. while at- H tempting to arrest three men on charges of robbery in Cherry street.' J was knocked down by a bottle wielded fl by one tt'e While lying on 'bbbbbbbb the ground he drew hhfi'revolver and fired two shots, one which struck 'ifl Peter Bnbh nskv, 28. ! bbbbbbH " or M |