The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-04-24

ment OF trumPery, fnery and poor bS.
longings, broomsdcks, crockery, fat.
Irons. aprons, sacks, hammers and fid.
dies, are pigeon-holed, costly lace.
malachite buttons, diamond.rines and
chattels of genuine value. In an up~
per room. the assassin's nest, are the
ropes with which men were hanged,
remains of the potions with which they
were poisoned, OF the daggers with
which the souls we're brutally dug out
OF their bodies, side by side with ugly
Tint pistols, bludgeons. suggestive Of
Bill Sykes, and the evil-looking pixies
welded by Malay pirates who enjoy the
grim hospitality of a quicklime grave
under Newgate's aagstones.
A lady who would insist on entering
the place once was carried out in a
deadly. swoon. Some things there are
in this gallery Of unadvertised memo
ries OF atrocity which dare not be
limited at in English, no, nor, l will
even 60 SO far as to say, in the French
OF lola. But the burglars budget Of
tools is a remarkable and edifying OBJ
ject of study. They are beautifully
finished and OF the most exquisitely
tempered steel. A fine trade in the
manufacture Of these excellent speci-
mems Of skilled handicraft must be
done somewhere. The dark lanterns
are ingeniously wrought. the list slip.
pers ~delicately embroidered and some
of the jimmies are polished until they
resemble oxidized silver. There must
be aesthetics of the housebreakers' art.
How Sir Claude de Crespigny, the
would-be hangman, would rejoice were
he let loose in this happy hunting
ground! 1t sickened me. l had to ask
for air when the curator showed me,
suspended in a vial of spirits of wine
and neatly docketed, a patch of the
shared skin of the woman whom
Wainwright had butchered. Less re-
pulsive were the gamblers devices; all
the tricks Of the calling were there dis
closed-the loaded dGe, the roulette
boards with springs underneath to
stop the bail at will, the marked cards
and the mirror arrangements.
The coiners' apparatus exhibited a
notable progress in the march of intel
lect-that is, the intellect which is inn
mortalized in the Newgate calendar.
The curator told me the criminal
classes were acquiring a dangerous &C.
q%uaintance with chemistry and dynam-
les, and that facility of penmanship
was on the increase. Is this the result
of school-board training? 1t would be
melancholy if such an argument-that
is not an unmixed blessing
were to be taken as valid against its
The abuse Of a gift is no rea-
that its dissemination should be
There is almost a library Of photo
graphic albums of malefactors. They
are all represented with their hands laid
fiat on their breasts, it having been as
certained by experience that the hands
often furnish unalterable clcws to iden-
tification. As these likenesses are safe
in testimony against them, the
nabitual criminals betray an extreme
sntipathy to having them taken. 1t
was a weeks labor to get a correct
presentment'' Of the mod
,rn and more artful Jack Sheppard,
he late Charles Peace. He wriggled,
changed his expression and
distorted his features with such a
nonkey-like quickness that it was we'll
high impossible for the man with the
to catch him. He was fixed in
he plate at last as he was intently
Watching the flogging of a comrade.
Whether it was the effect of precon-
'eived notions or not l can not say, but
here did not appear to me to be a SOL
tary good c~ountenance in the complete
~aw-breakers' gallery. All were sulky,
s%emi-idiotic, with vizor of wolf
r. weasel, with low foreheads, con-
racted brows, eyes CLASSY Or greedy,
illainous jowls and the tokens of mean
r british animality. When l quilted
he 'black museum l felt as if l were
off charnal smells and the con-
act of things Shiny and loathsome. In
corner of the yard l observed an in.
ongruous group of cigarette-smoking
lashors. country yokels, jolly jack
hrs, lame peddlers and roughly dressed
lechanics with grimy cheeks engaged
| conversation. They were detectives
n the V of sallying out On the war
ath. -7homa, s. Gill, M. p, in Htla-
slphia Press.
FICTION OUTDONE.