Atomic Age Criminals
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e No Crime Like the Present

RIME, like other trades, is
Cc marching on. Recent reports

show that although cosh mer-
chants and juvenile breakers seem
depressingly alike in technique there
are bright boys with new ideas and
ingenious twists to old tricks.

One of them is the Los Angeles
gentleman who-—with love and
money affairs equally tangled —de-
cided the cure was a variation of the
insurance racket. He placed a suit
case containing a home-made time

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bomb and a can of petrol in the
plane by which his wife and two
children were traveling, after insur-
ing them for 25,000 dollars.

Fortunately, panic or conscience
prevailed, and just before the plane
took off he shouted a warning to an
attendant who dropped the bag on
the ground—-where it exploded im-
mediately.

Another enterprising American in-
troduced a new terror into bank
“stick-ups” recently by producing a
hand grenade which he held between
his teeth while he scooped up the
hastily delivered loot!

Three other youngsters took over a
New York hotel during the night.
They locked up the manager, ran-
sacked the office and then systematti-
cally held up arriving and departing
guests until 8 a.m., when they loaded
a car at the front door and drove into
the unknown.

But the really disturbing stunts
come from the scientifically-minded
law breakers, such as the three ex-
service radio mechanics armed with
home-made walkie-talkie sets. Their
“m.o.”’ was for one to cruise around in
the car whilst the others operated in-
side.

Wireless contact with the driver
ensured a quick get-away in the event
of an alarm, but this was not always
necessary, because they knew how to
dismantle most burglar alarms. An-
other innovation was deliberately to
operate the alarm, lie low until the
police were satisfied that it was a
“false alarm,’ and then get to work
in earnest. When finally arrested—
through the usual mistake of throw-
ing their money about—a workshop
crammed with electronic devices
showed that they had been experi-
menting with the object of detecting
electric alarms and infra-red beams.

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And although police experience
discounts the yarn about finding the
safe combination by listening to the
lock tumblers, it is interesting to note
that these electronic experts had been
trying out possibilities in this field.

Walkie-talkie was also used by two
office breakers in Illinois. Operating
on the one-inside and one-out system
they managed several very successful
jobs before being caught.

Home-made tommy guns have ap-
peared in several countries, but an

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