| Show jewelers in constant warfare on the crook other lines of business which suffer from holdups and sneak thievery theory might find it profitable to study the methods by which jewelry bevelry concerns banded together in the jewelers security alliance of the united states are aie making the operations of jewelry i crooks steadily more moie dangerous and less lebs profitable the crooks have ninny many tricks for example there Is the fruit eater it the jeweler does not watch him carefully he will ft press a stone or ring into on an apple core coie or a squeezed orange and throw 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 tile latter by means of gum under the edge of the counter until lie he gets a chance to remove it without being discovered the umbrella carrier drops valuable articles into the umbrella und and so on the alliance leeps keeps its members informed about these devices and methods tor for circumventing them As a result the value of jewelry stolen from members during 1030 1930 was kept down to about which Is surely aurely a remarkable sh otting just recently the jewelry crooks have turned kidnaper they go early in the morning to the boine of a jeweler stick a gun in ills his ribs force him to their car and take him to ills his store where lie he Is ninde made to 0 poll open the safe and give up whatever 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 alliance experts appear to be just a shade smarter frank A rail fall in the outlook and independent |
