Show jewelers in constant warfare on the crook other lines of business which suffer from holdups and sneak thievery might find it profitable to study the methods by which jewelry concerns banded together in the jewelers security alliance of the united states are making the operations of jewelry crooks steadily more dangerous and less profitable the crooks have many tricks for example there Is tile fruit eater it if the jeweler does not watch him carefully lie ile 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 be gets a chance to remove it without being discovered the umbrella carrier drops valuable articles into the umbrella and so on the alliance keeps its members informed about these devices and methods for circumventing them As a result the value of jewelry stolen from members during 1930 30 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 his ribs force him to their car and take him to his store where he Is made to open the safe and give up whatever nhat hat ever articles the robbers want this trick Is new but the alliance has already developed a most ingenious way to meet it the crooks are smart but the alie alliance experts appear to be just a shade smarter frank A fall in the outlook and independent |