Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1920 — Burglary Is Not Profitable. [ARTICLE]

Burglary Is Not Profitable.

When one reads in the paper an account of a burglary where the thief succeeded In securing $5,000 to SIO,OOO worth of jewelry, one is apt to think that the spoils were probably worth the risk, but investigation has shown that thieves never realize anything like the full value -of their plunder. In England it was discovered that out of 468 burglaries reported in various parts of the kingdom the-proeeeds netted the principals an average of about $75 each. The value of W plunder was many times that figure. In addition to this, each one of the number had been Sent to jail for his crime.