Included in the 91 are 36 highway robberies, 55 being operations on shops and' houses. This is 9 new phase, for, whereas in F rusty 1927, it was rare indeed, to hear of a highway. robbery, in 1928, the number ig more than one-third of the total. Ten robberies were frustrated when tenants gave alarms.
The gangsters' are become bolder and more desperate. fu exactly e-seventh of the cases, it was reported that the robbers fired either at their victims—to frighten them or with intent to murder them—or-they were met by the police. The police shot four armed robbers. Nearly, half of their crimes, were committed between 6 pam. and 10 p.m. but armed men in some instances adopted a new departure by_ operating between 3.90 am, ani Cam.
Tu other: classifications. of crime, we find that there were:61 cases of burglary, 16 of housebreaking, 11 of godown-breaking. and. 423° of larceny: Twenty. Russians. were arrested for minor crimes:
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