The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-15
CRIME IN COUNTRY AND CITY


the Vandalia railroad, one of our New
York city exchanges to- k occasion to COM
misserate with the residents of the country
over the great dang IS TO which they were
exposed on account of their remote situa-
ton and the want of an efficient police on
duty both night and day. 1t painted in
dark colors the terrors with which we were
afflicted on account If these outrages, and
the many sleepless nights we were COM
PEELED 10 pass ia fearful, anxious expect
ancy of being robbed before morning. and
perchance murdered, in order to make the
path Of crime easy anu comparatively safe.
Dead men tell no tales, and, hence, we
country people could expect nothing but
death, so that the identity of the masked or
unmasked desperadoes, attracted by our
suppostious wealth, might be concealed.
Our daily or nightly terror, as painted,
was fearful to contemplate, but our city
brethren were told that it was not to be
wondered at, even it they, on
account of their valiant, omni-
present police, were unable to realize
these superior attractions of the city
over the country and this perfect security
of property therein-secure because of the
vigilant watchfulncss of the police and the
almost absolute certainty of the detection
and punishment of criminals-it IS to be
presumed lulled the denizens of those
,hioltly populated places in to n snnsn nt
safety and charmed them to sleep without
thought of their possessions-for surely
the guardians of the public peace would af-
ford all needed protection and if, by
chance, any of their property should find
its way into the hands Of those unmindful
of the distinction between meum and tenn,
1t would be speedily restored and the for
getful man placed where his forgetfulness
would not, even temporarily, discommode
any one. AS for human life, only the fool
could think it was imperilled although
moveables might temporarily stray away,
life and limb were absolutely safe. The
day of ju5ilo had come to the city. Per-
feet rest could there alone be found. Dan
ger lurked in the country-beware of it (;
keep out of it ) depart not from the watch
full care of the police. Such was the bur-
den of the song.
This was only few days ago. If any
were soothed thereby, how rude the awak.
ening The next day we hear of woman
bound and gagged in the most populouf
part of New York ci,y, and the place OF
her residence robbed ofsomc forty Thousand
dollars worth of bonds. Remember this
occurred in the broad glare of MONDAY
Do we hear of the recovery of the bonds
and the arrest of the masked burglars
Oh, no, but on the contrary we hear Thu
World tell Its readers that such an &C
could never shave been so much as con
ceived of in city the police of whicl
had not thoroughly emptied itself of al
moral force and prestige in the eyes O
g the criminal classes by its corruption ant
" incompetency"; and that if deeds lik
these can be with impunity planned an'
carried out in one street" they can any
where in the city, and that the only alter
native is vigilance committee" Tn
staid, conservative Ecening Post, in com
menting, says that the police organization
is ''rotten from top to toe" while the su
perntendent of the police says that ga rob
" berry of this kind was one which it wa
" impossible to prevent" What then, pra
tell us, is the object of patrolling the city
night and day? 1t is not reasonable t
suppose that this burglary was committe
by tyros in crime-they must have bee
old, experienced desperate men, and W
are told that this kind of crime cannot b
prevented, that it can be committed wit
IMMUNITY in any part of the city. Wher
then is the safety?
That the police force is corrupt, that
ID in the pay of burglars, counterfeiteri
keepers of houses of prostitution, even Q
murderers, is notorious, is susceptible {
proot-aye has been proven. And this
the boasted security of the city over til
country. This is but single instance oil
of hundreds that are weekly, If not daily
occuring-but let us pass over the rive
On the same day, the Brooklyn commits
sloners of the police seem to have bccom
aroused to the consciousness that every
thing was not as lovely as il should be
that "city of churches" and they, Their
fore, proceed to PROFOUND certain conul
drums 10 the superintendent. They wei
somewhat after this form CD "Why ha,
not the murderers of Torino been arres
"ed?" (2) "Where are the Iobbers of Il
Long Island savings bank. and why al
"they not in durance vile p (O "Whl
has become of the burglar that attempte
"to murder Shute p (D "Why has NJ
"the murderer of the stevedore at Woo
"ruff s. Robinsons dock been caught
And they were going on with fifthly
sixthly, and 60 on, when. the mention c
Woodruff & Robnson's dock seemed
suggest brillanl idea to the superintent