The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-12-20
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How Thieves Divide.

teWelry stolen from my house, how
much would have to pay the thieves
or their middle-ineni olget.theproperty
kback2" s,saF....l-as, W., ,'...t .,ff'.
''Well, there are many things con
nected with the business which fnight
suggest many. different answers" 70,
''What business?'' . 10
iii "The sbhsinessEO of thieving, for it is a
business and has several grades. Fer
Instance: The men who robbed Alex
lander LeWisland David Whitney were
not the men, who, did the ,Rolshoyen
work. The perpetrators E OF q tliat llatgHffb Hiob
Fe0nsider thelnsdlges several . degrees
above 'porch-climbers,', who rob dwell
I ling houses and would not even recog-
hize ithemtonl the streets, OF elsewhere. +"
Chow do you know all this?n
81 do not absolutely know the facts
in the instances cited gIbut / form nv
conclusion on my knowledge of thieves
of all classes, and their code of ethics.
A safe-breaker is an aristoerat when he
meets porch-climber, and in fact they
strive to avoid meeting or associating
with persons any lower in thiefd6m
than themselves,
4iNow to 'retttrh to the Question 4 iof
returning stolen property for q reward
and no questions, asked-What do you
know of the methodist sf9a 9Gllfssds
'In the first places nine out of ten of
the blowing jobs are put up by
persons living In the town where the
work is done. They size up the enter
prise and send for some one to do the
trick who is particularly good at that
kind of work. That some one comes
from abroad generally, Thus, it fol-
lows, that there are four persons or
gangs of persons who know Just, who
does a job as quickly as the news comes
I that it has been aone.m ri i'9a4ai SHG
'And who are the persons thus, in
formed?"
First, the person : or persons who
! put up the job, second, the sfence'
who receives the property; third, the
thieves who doSthe work, and fourth,
the associates of the thieves who live
in the town they hail from and who
know thattthey left home to do work.
Now then all of these parties watch the
papers and use every means to keep
posted in reIationEto eaelia job, and the
minute any reward is. offered or any
settlement made, they clamor for their
s'Whack' and generally get it.p iaa1afso
49, But suppose a thief leaves Chicago,
Toledo or Cleveland to do a Job IN De-
ytroit; how do his8 Associates kAswiWher
be has gone or what he does?'' -.
Because they know the thief is out
of town and they know the kind of work
he, does and his methods of working. I
II see. Now how much would a
thief get on $1,000 worth of plunderr
''From forty to fifty per cent, of the
total valuation. You see it's this way:
The party who puts up the job steers
the thief to fence Well say the
fence whacks up half-and-halfs with
the thief. Then the person who puts
up the job calls on the fence for a diry
of fifteen or twenty per cent. of his fifty
per cent. ,aaIid on. the thief for "a like
share of his half"
The statement being a ,trffe cotnpH-
Gated the detective prepared the foAov-
table illustrating the point: r4r.
Vaaue of property stolen1.ai :. ~ i5.9tLS5A0O
Share received by fence" ..s.......... $500
Share received by thief tt. ...!... 26IO
Commission paid by fence. ''........... 500
Commits issionipaid by thief.~.-... !...... =. 500
/ " P6hAeJ NhO pdtc up
/ I the job l. =. .s...l =. -. IL 1 600
Profit realized by 'fence'. ............'.. 2000
Profit realized by thief. ief.................s 81 1900
Then, to;satisfy the thief, provided [
wanted to recover my property by pay
! ing q reward, / should be OBLIGED to
give him the $1,000 he'd realize on a
$4,000 hanlrtn tatt .tHea1 }Ts
III s.Oh DEAR no, Y You would be obliged
to pay fees to all the parties I have
mentioned. They are all in the job
and must have their, 'whack' Just the
same whether they restore the property
to you for a reward or whether they
dispose of it toa 'fence.D There would
be this difference: Considering the
safety that would follow all concerned
by restoring ithe property to You Rnd.no
questions asked, the ''putter up OF, the
| Job, the thief and the fence would con
sent to smaller profits: Accordingly on
S5, GOO worth Of property stolen, you
would be obliged to pay Sfl000to $1,000
to get it back,9d3 IG0Q 10 9suGa 3sit
kaf But, hold on y you've left out the
swhack clamored for by the associates of
the thieves at his own home. " ~.
THAT the thief is obliged to settle for
after he returns to his home, and II he
fails or refusesato do the square thing,
then some one tsqueals' to our police,
an officer picks up the sqealer and some
timesiworks out the kick to. conviction.
But there is sometimes troublethere, for
a man who will blow on partner
will settle with that partner on the
shortest notice, leaving thesofficer en-
tirely at sea and without witnesses orev-
idence." tis ~ -8 .f8Ifo3
"It's sort of dog eat dog occupation
which thieves engage in, isn't it ?''''.f ?'' ',5f
''It certainly is, and in the long run
every dog becomes food for some other
dog. .n--Detrott Free Press
There is sound reason why there
are bones in our meat and stones in cur
land. A world where everything was
easy would be nursery FOR babies, but
not at all a fit place for men. Celery
is not sweet until it has felt frost, and
men don't come to their, perfection till
disappointment has dropped half
hundred weight or TIVE on, -their toes
Who would know good horses if there
lPwere no heavy loads?--Joaa Plough
ps0ss. '44