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Show mm CRIMES STIR m 1T0RK Bad Men of West Moved Eastward East-ward to Terrorize Broadway NEW yf3RK, Jan. U New York ?S5 Uirown y lt nickel novel of 13-0. 10 hogin leading (ho 1H21 thriller thrill-er of Dead Man's gulch moved Into l Broadway and Iho Blnck hilly set down on Firth avenue somewhere he-'ween he-'ween the Waldorf-Astoria and Forty, second . 1 reel With omething like 400 robberies and stickupe" on the newspaner lists ,01 crimes for the p.iM year, and I 1"0 murders and killinga ' I set down by news offices as "un-isolrecl." "un-isolrecl." ihe now year has had Bel Tor it a penny-dreadful record II will , take two-gun men from t'ovote canyon can-yon a hi. 1. rues endeavor; to hea. RIVALS WILD WEST I A ride from the Grand Central in a ' laxieab now ,oi,cr-de.l i,v Ir-adint papers of the city tn have nothing on I trip In the Deadwood stage coach land tho big hotels and restaurants ' I loom up as cheery as th. Santa Fc saloon in (he wild we?i days of the ' S'XgUIl totc-r anu ,jie bad bov bandltB I of B.oody hollow. Twenty police I nilomen patrol the streets at nisht m ""IHI- The ,.,-, linu.. out at midnrght when Central park la c osed to vehjeular and pedestrian l , traffic, and all persons abroad mu?. I gle account of themselves When a sired. I In the past month judges on the '"inal courts bench have urged lormation of citizens' committees on a par wllh the virilnhtoa ,.r n... rrontler before It was accused of moving hack east to metropolitan tenters. The max or has warned all persons carrying or possessing valu-ables valu-ables to procure permits to arm ''"m-eh, ; ;,pin. highwaymen and Uie police have tried to get back to something like first principles in life (and property protection. CRIMES STIR CITY I Climes havo been chronicled as 'hough they were tobberv and mur-'' mur-'' 1 ' -I..-I-,. and the Mihw.-a n. wf--, paper reader has felt ull the thrill ol ! riding the Overland Limited in the l days when Jeese James and his gan held no prairie railroad Immune from j their ravages. Estimates have placed about $4.. 000,000 as the total value of loot obtained by burglars, thieves and yeggmen in New York during 192n Daylight holdups, attacks in leading lead-ing great whi way hotels and automobile au-tomobile banditrj bave yielded much of the valuables stolen. As many as forty robberies and thefts have been featured for a month's acts of violence of not.-, and six such attempts at-tempts in a day have been recorded. 'UNSOLVED' MURDERS Of (he more than 100 "unsolved" murders li.-ted by some papers, a dumber now are nationally, if not in j ternatlOnally, known. Beginning with I .. L' I I I I mm N x ... J , . muiuc -v aeurt) aay. i'J2U s record rec-ord started strong. Conspicuous In the 12 monihs' list were the murders I of Joseph B. ElWell, Miss Renie t'onstance ifn;.ie, ;ind Frederick C lEcker. BIwell, known from coast to' ( coast as a whist expert and horse- ' man. van shot to death in his hand-j , somely lurnished West Seventieth street home; Miss lloxie. a 17-year-old girl, was found mutilated in her lather's house, Eckert. a former government gov-ernment agent and alleged whisky I , runner, was found shot dead in an automobile in Staien island. In the robberies, organized bands j of gunmen have seemed to predom ' inate. Tliefts of valuable goods from rallroc-w. freight cars, bulking big in big packing cases, have been consid- erable. Stolen auiomobiles have been 1 reported constantly. But holdups of j the old time type, by day as well j ns by night, on the street, in Hie home, in hotels, where masked and : unmasked men have taken what they ' Wanted at the point of pistols, haft; ! called forth the hue and cry against I alleged Inadequate police pro ec tion." POLICE GET BUSY '1 1, '11, .I, I, hanrlita In. v.. n,.,. ntt 1 I with a number 01 factory payrolls ' and banks have Feen gunmen walk in and demand money from the safe under penalty of Instant death. All this time the police department has been under fire Police Com- I mlBsipner Enrigbt, right bower of the 1 city administration, has been attacked continually in iho newspapers be-cause be-cause of the prevalence of tho gun- 1 men. The commissioner xhas retorted by ' asserting that this rondition exists ; elsewhere. To combat It he has lengthened the hours 01 police duty. ' called for 500 additional policemen ! and sent out automobile squads armed ' with rifles to patrol the shopping r.nd business districts. |
