| Show jewelers jeweled 3 in constant warfare on the crook other lines of oe business which suffer from holdups and sneak thievery might find it profitable to study the methods by which jewelry con cerns banded together in the jewelers security alliance All Allt tance arice of the united states are making the operations of jewelry crooks steadily more dangerous and less profitable the crooks have in many any tricks for example there Is the fruit eater it if the jeweler does not watch him carefully lie he will press a stone or ring into nii an apple core or a squeezed orange and the fruit into the street for ills 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 lie he gets a chance to remove it gitil without out being discovered the u umbrella m brella carrier drops valuable articles into the umbrella and so on the alliance keeps its members informed about these devices ani and methods for circumventing them thein As a result the value of jewelry stolen from members during 1030 1930 was kept down to about which is surely a remarkable showing just recently the jewelry crooks have turned kidnaper they go early in the morning to the home of a jeweler stick a gun in ills his ribs force him to their car and take him to ills his store where he Is made t to open the safe and give up whatever er articles the robbers want tills trick Is new but the alliance has hag already developed a most ingenious way to meet it the crooks are smart but the alliance experts appear to be just a shade smarter frank A F fall all in the outlook and independent |
