The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-11-16
SOME LEADERS IN CRIME.
FACTS ABOUT NOTORIOUS THIEVES
IN NEW YORK AND ELSEWHERE.
Men who live by Robbing People
Big tfauIs That Have Becn Made
by Expert Thieves.

by Expert Thieves.
"What is the most dcspe rate sort of 70
tliefY asked the New York correspon-
dent of the Boston Herald of Police In
spector Byrnes.
"Well, a river thief is about the worst
OF general principles. He thinks nothing
o. boarding vessel, giving the lookout
awhack on the head and rolling him
oterboard. lie holds human life pretty
cleaply A burglar is pretty lively when
you corner him, though he won't often
hurt anybody if he can get away with
out it. Sneak thieves and pickpockcts are
the meanest They will always run, and
not once in a thousand times will they
show fight As for confidence men. a
fellow who watches them carefully soon
makes up his mind. not that they are so
clever, but that the bulk of human kind
are stupid. Most of these chaps who fly
for big game make II great deal of money.
The higher the stakes the less danger of
being found out, because a rich man, or
one who stands high, socially or politi-
caily hates to admit that he has been
skinned There was Miller the man
who was killed by Tracy. He had loads
Of money, kept carriages, servants and
all that sort of thing, bought his furs
and fancy things at KnoX's, and was
general high-hyer
Then there's Hungry Joe, who was
in that party we passed a few minutes
ago. He's ripper, and pretty well
fixed. The boys say he met his match,
awhile back, in man from Texas. Joe
picked this man up at the Fifth Avenue
hotel where he was spending some
money, and where he was looked upon
as granger. The man lost a couple of
hundreds in the bunco business under
Hungry Joe's tuition but he was so in
noccnt that he didn't tumble at all. Then
he got hard up and wanted to mortgage
big tract of land in Texas. He showed
plans locations. deeds and everything of
that sort till you couldn't rest. Joe took
him to his lawyer, and the deeds and
things seemed all right, SO one of the
finest confidence men in the country adj
vanced 81 500 or so in cold cash After
ward he went to Texas to see his land,
but he hasn't found it yet. The fact is,
that benevolent granger was cleverer
than Joseph
what other sorts of sharp criminals
are thcre?"
"Well. there are a few men who work
simply by cold nerve. and take anything
they can lay hands on just as though it
belonged to them. You would be sur
prised to see how successful they are.
Take the case Of old Chauncey johnson,
who has Just been arrested over in Phlla-
delphia. There is Il record for you. Now
sixty-tivc years old. or something like
that and he has stolen barrels of money
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