The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-10
Two for the Gallows.
Young Men Who Represent the Worst
Elements of New York Criminals.

rece ntly said they represent the worst ele-
ments of the criminal population of New
York. They "are Michael McGloin, a
young corner loater, and Pasquale Malone,
an Italian vagabond. McGIoin is not yet 81
years old, He is New Yorker by birth,
and he attended the public schools with
more or less regularity when he was young
er; yet the police say that it is just such as
he tn at are giving them and the community
the most and the worst trouble that is occa
stoned by crime. Full grown and even old
crimi nally do murder, follow burglary for
live lihood, steal, fight, keep disorderly
houses and need great deal of watching,
but their ways are comparatively as an open
book to the police. They are members of
fixed classes in the school of crime; their
haunts, their faces, their methods of work
ing, are all known to those who make the
subject study. But it is not so with the
tenement house lad, tho Michael McGlons
of the street corners. They become loafers
and petty thieves at fourteen, boisterous
aud violent disturbers of the peace two
years later, and then suddenly, before any
body has thonght 1t worth while to do more
than move them on, and lock them up oc-
casionally for extra disorderlness or petty
theft they launch out into the extreme of
desperate crime.
Look at McGloin: He and his compan-
ions were enjoying ball. They were men,
bers of social club, which means an ag-
gregatiou of loafers and thieves, who hire a
room, put up letered window curtains, call
themselves the Elite Six the 'McGuffin
Guards, or the Murray Hill Coterie, Snug
gle kegs of beer and sexless creatures with
banged heads of hair int their quarters,
strike candidates for Office at election time
and maintain an organization until, in time,
all the members part to be reunited in Sing
Sing. MsGloin and two or three others
quilted the ball room for an hour, and sud
| denly determined to do the fainting act on
Frenchy, as they called the keeper of lit
tie wine shop close by. This is a very inge-
NOUS operation. Two or three thieves enter
saloon in which they are sufficiently ac-
| quainted to know where the money is kept.
They order drinks, and one falls in well
simulated fit upon the floor. Human ma
ture is relied upon to cause the saloon keep
er to move out from behind the bar, and
getting hint from some one, to help drag
the sick man into the yard or private
room. While he is thus occupied the 9TH
ers steal the money. This game is played
Frenchman had earlier in tbe evening ere
hibited fat pocketbook that locked as if if
might contain fortune The fainting act
was carried ont hut not riff tba Ero,ok
MANS co-onerat;on He woe ,ahlaer,ot;a
and merely looked on ana @ava bumsn ,a. 4;
rections. This conduct angered the lads
| and later vet that night thew returned
| broke in the saloon door and stole tha noel,
| etbook (which contained nothing Inf nanersl
heard JasconSisa ~ ne rfehcnman was
art. uoS.onI MI en1 stalrs from MS living
* af@ +ha o@i1 Ioofi party an run out
Gloir o sbo,o n.y. ~. nnen ~ was mat NC
and in the street ba rat1,rnod 1 ~ .l, sale
nistol IN hand a,d ao;,, 20 ~, ~ e snc saiou,
sta;rs 49, III eaa hSolns " ene ioot u sne
hin, Hs uant v III. - az. hI auu kiiie9
iii davi;nb+ WEI aon W " VIC oail anu uanceu
wbat 10 sa;d "a fa,io "as s, 'iiesleu tn III 10
downs bic Si,saa OH III. .pusn IN ne
friends have go,.a -, ;a,I f euom .n.eo u nus
and raab go ~ Ja .ha ~, seiious SI,nes,
raise monav te , .n1 s 1esI sSse pan 70
after the hanginq All cot Sarg dr,,ni Inc or a
there was 6narral in tho ha, $500, anu
some 0VArp02fc 10 tacf fa1 Aor
the hall was vonno man and i1' ~; ~ ;easo
When thew reached the first corna s %, ,h o.
came upon some of the others Tba a,,a s
abou. the coate mos ronomoa - faa. =" q
those in the Lnot on tha " $500; anu one ~. "
vounp man ovbo Voc tal;no H. nGi sn p .ne
Two more shots ,,ara eraS a.s5 ISL. &c nolno.
girl 1.-THE GIRLS are At comnsn;ons VIZ
Seized the n;stoi and Tra..ad ~ t sne iausI
hands If bar hrathar,s osSo;i. =. iion no
-~S - Iva DAouAAOi ocodlidAb LII bu6
him He will die ~ tha Y,o,,J M H. .: snos
saws that in tha d.rl sba oo,,M =. iS sisIel
man who did the shootino Ivy $50 'no
McGloin is beloved bv oil tho To,,hs
keepers. He is the hest how tban so1 -o 4har
ouor saw Tha,, oI,no.,a ooy, wy Say, onoy
,,,or, - .a-,s ~" Say sna.. Hacn new
f uau uiiuoi sentence VI ueatn WINS tneir al
lecslons anu seems 10 them lncomparably
nore worthy OF comparison than the last. 1t
was SO VITA Balbo, who cut his wfe's throat;
80 Win COX, Wnom Boston reporter cap
tqEed; SO with sindram; the agnostic, who
shot ms iandlady; so with them all as they
come IN ana are the centres of kindly obser-
V%tion nntii tney are LED out to die. Nc
Gioin Is wen dressed lad who is paying
more attention 10 an inciplent moustache
IMAM 70 Inc words OF the steadfast priests.
ne mas gehtie eyes when they are not set in
Inc cailous, loaierlsh stare he assumes when
=, az "'A'S W AooN nio pOob' nc LAS
thick, sensuous lips, and theupper one curls
up IN manner typical of the corner loafers
air OF brayado and contempt of morality.
ne talks the patols OF the streets, though he
can speak oecentiy II ne Will. 1t was all in
ger PUBIC scnoois, ne says, when account
ing ior MS DOWNFALL. In one class sat by
one burglars son, and IN another class by
another. Learned more badness than any
thing else there
1t was In the public schools in this way
said Capt. Williams of the police: these
lads in school soon get to know more than
their ignorant parents, who are, in most
cases, peasants from some part of Europe.
They discover that they know more than
the old folks, and they quickly. cease to
spec 'nelr parents. Home discipline be-
CONES Out OF the suestion, and home infiu-
ELVES e.at - eAerIea, are not needed, The boys
s snJ drkn aOr s Sne anea.Ie ana ior smoking
anu uIinhing' put are without the means to
g, onay - s1elr h uesires res: Iney steal to get
and ~ ~ fs ~ "OUaI Will ihey steai bottles
gu. .h i,un nns', anu lay nanos on everything
~ snoir r umI nones .nas eau 10 pawned or
s spiu. Inis haraens mem Dle py DIT, and
sney So0n e.eai wherever ana Whatever they
can. MURDER Ioiiows. ana Inc gallows, not
AS irequently as IL should DO, however, closes
up IHtlr SnOrC ana worthless lives.