The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1860-07-03
FASHIONABLE BURGLARS.

hundred years ago and more, men ol
good bnth and fashionable habits did not
think il beneath their dignity to stop travel.
ers on llouuslow heath. near London, aud
relieve them OF their money and yauables.- =
Some prided themselves ii always maintain
inc the character Of gentlemen in these little
transactions, and being particular Y gallant
and chivalrous to the ladies whom they cap
turel. By degrees tho excitement Of this
style of life became sort Of necessity TO ex-
istence; the money went as fast as it came,
and the higbwaymen generally ended their
days detected and on the gaIlows. The young
New Workers of fashion seem to b, following
house-brcakine, bank robbing and other
''manly sports" with the same sort of relish
and ayidity. In the New York Hospital, a
man recently died, Of whom we gave an ac-
count some weeks ago, as having leapcd from
the fifth story window of a Pearl street house.
which he, in connection with Il Young Polan-
der, was engaged in robbing. The deceased
gave his name as Charles Murphy, but G
was in truth the brother Of well known
broker and bank director of that city, had a
Young and interesting wife, whose daily Wis
It's 10 the hospital have attracted much atten-
tion, and although the real names have been
kept out Of the public papers, they are, we
presume, not unknown 20 many connected
with til, New York editorial department
Since the time when Schuyler was diScov-
erel forging railway securities, and Robinson
forging bills Of exchange, occasional revela-
ton, Ike those of Lane have showed that
New York extravaganza and dissipation was
not kept up without a plentiful supply Of
fraud. But the taste for burglary is, we pre-
sumo, only Just beginning to be developed.
Or was it that these were burglars at burgla-
ry, and made more than proper noise, or had
not properly made their arrangements with
the police, and So infringing upon regular and
established lines Of business without paying
Their footing were 50 tiercaly driven into "A
corner. In one respect this Chas, Murphy,
and bank directors brother, showed some
spirit. H. leap was a memorable one thir-
ty feet at a stretch, on to the peaked roof of
Il house, with twenty foot tumble aC.nr.
wards, rolling him into jelly. This was
not bad fora beginner, and wouli have made a
sort Of hero Of him IN New York had he es-
capped with his life,
For robbery murlor, swinllnr, gambling,
and deGlca,iau, New York is becoming un.
happily notorious. It's primary elections ar,
controlled by rough~. Its taxes are as,c, Ell
by ono set of roguc~, collected by another
and what remains of them squandnrnd by a
third. It's municipal officers are ,candai..-
Side 10y side with it, most fashionable hotels
are gambling rooms. and back OF them hoas-
e, Of the most infamous aud dangerous de-
scription. Filth accumuiates, and disease and
de tn double upon other cities ike our own.
Up town. in many fashionable house, a
wife pines in splendid neglect, because her
husband is squanler.ng his time AMI means
in the most infamous and sulger modes of
vice, or 'repIcnishing his purse in bank rob
berry or house-breaking. To think Of youl!
wife highly educated and refined, having to
lave the infant of her breast to follow hus.
band, lhus wounded, to the New York Hos
pital, drawing down her vail and Disgusting
her figure and her voice. for fear of recogni-
ton, is n sad fate. The beauty of the ball
room last season becomes IA burglars bride
and a widow Snch are some of the myste
lics and misories Of tn light and shadows of
New York life just now. No wonder some
families prefer Brooklyn, or Philadelphia
Where sudden wealth and sluallcd poyIty
live side 10y side 50 closely, crimes like these,
aud miScrics worse than can be told, will now
and then peep out The grand moral of
such facts should be, that no wealth, and no
connections and 10 manners, should blind Us
as to character. Let parents think, and let
ever; gir be taught to think AMI know, that
Lcr future happiness depends more on the
real uaiisgu,cd character Of the man to
whom she gives her heart and hand than up
on all other thing, on earth like wealth, con
nections, Or fashionable msnncrs.