MILLIONAIRE'S POLICE.
New Yorfi, Juno 23. The arrest of the desperate gang of | housebreaker* lias brought about no diminution in the daily list of burglaries in f.ong Island. Ho impotent do the police seem against these outlaws operating in motor-cars and armed with revolvers and ''spray guns" full of chloroform, that in Nassau County the leading millionaires have practically decided to organise a private force of eighty-five men to patrol the district. All the men will be armed with Winchester rifles, and mounted either on horses or on motor-cveles. The estimated cost of the fores is £25,000,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 24 August 1907, Page 3
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97MILLIONAIRE'S POLICE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 24 August 1907, Page 3
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