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Show NEW YORK'S DAYS OF CRIME AND !-i YSTERI A. When it is necessary in New York 1 to call out extra police and enlist the aid of 20 000 former officers of the 1 army and navy, the wave of crime must be beyond control. Only the most serious offenses j against law and order have been re ported, but the extreme safeguards re-sorted re-sorted to indicate widespread lawlessness, law-lessness, with an accompanying hys- , teria on the part of the people. Burglaries, holdups and murders an occurring In the heart of ihe business ditfrlct. Xoeparl of the city ib free j from the operations of the desperate thugs. On Saturday nlgnt the home of Mrs. CeCile Sartorls, granddaughter of General Grant, was entered and i looted. Automobib-B are employed and the criminals drive up to a residence or bank, enter, take possession and shoot to kill. If they are opposed. This unnerving form of robbery has been carried on so long and successfully success-fully that thousands of men are firming firm-ing to protect themselves from attack. New Yorkers would do well to come uui weal where there is a higher civilization. |