The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-19

great New York dailIcs the account OF
young and beautiful country girl. who.
owing 20 some cross or disappointment
in n love affair. took 10 criminal courses.
and with such success az eventually en-
ahlcd her, while yet young and blooming.
TO retire from business with wealth
enough TO rank her a capitalist. THIS
woman's speciality was the theft OF
gems. more particularly diamonds. 50
pronounced was her success. 50 marked
her holiness and address. that the po-
lice OF the great city I'm which She lived
and operated. rated her as one OF the
most troublesome and dreaded OF the
crooks with whom they had 20 deal.
As / observed before. the personnel OF
majority of the portraits that illustrate
Inspector Byrno's book are not % an
OF "a rutiauly or cut-throat type Let
us now turn its leaves and jot down a
few selected AT random
No. ]. A bank. sneak thief. f. just such
face as one might meet anywhere on
the street. see az his desk I'm an ohloe. or
oven In a pew I'm church No suggestion
of rufanism I'm expression or feature.
Ills dress is neat. suitable and perfectly
respectable The head rather balder
than his age seems TO justify. suggests
busy, thoughtful, prudent man. while "A
FUN. rather jolly face seems TO Indicate
one who, I'm his hours OF relaxation. might
Do a companionable. amusing fellow
Yet this man lives boy watching oppor-
tunitics TO snatch money, bonds or any
other valuable matter exposed on the
counters desks or elsewhere in banks
and brokers' Offices.
No is young and decidedly eentcol
and attractive in appearance. Ills bright
rather Quzcal face is by no means the
cOuntcnancc Of a rascal, rather. indeed,
fI lead fU
confidence. The original is q crook who
was arrested and tried for completely in
rcbhing n bank Of the modest sum OF
$4,000. besides arraignment Tor sundry
other Offences of like character
Turning over some twenty or thirty
pages we pause az No. 10, burglar In
This instance there is more correspond
once between personnel and vocation. The
short. thick neck, coarse hc 1ry features,
sensual mouth. unkcmpt hair and dress
are pretty much in accord with one s.
ideas OF how "a burglar shoull look. SIN
had we seen the original lOahng about
tle streets. we might well have set him
down as some shiftless fellow either on
the edge of spree or out OF job.
And 10 is with most OF the portraits
that cmteiish Inspector ky4nes book.
They look much more ike the fol-. of
everyday life than the ideal foes and
iests OF society
LOSS or MONEY.
Occasionally. Of course. one comes
across "a face upon which vice and crime
have stamped their proof-mark. These,
however. bear but "a small and insi-nih-
cant proportion TO the whole COLLECTION.
10 d. only by means Of some sucn me-
dium as Byrne's book That person 30
an unofficial capacity IFS able 10 get am
approximate knowledge OF The actual loss
in money and Naluahleg for which hur-
glars and thieves are responsible. Take
bank rohhcrics for example. To lnspee-
tor pvrno's book there is tabuiated
statement of thirty-nine banks raided boy
burglars. and covering period OF ten
years. of these. the heaviest loss claimed
hy any single bank was one million, the
smallest. eight thousand, and this rs but
two banks out of thirty-Odd.
Bear in mind. too. that The depreda-
fi0ns recorded above are the work or
bank burglars alone. What. then. must Of
the loss inflicted upon the public from
wear 20 yaar hy the various classes by
crooks mentioned previously?
Fortunately for the public. person, and
purse g. Well-ocgnizcl police force ana
3D. corps of professional detectives form
an essential feature in the protective
equipment of nearly every city and town
of any size above "a village I'm the coun-
try. This. coupled with wcll-hehtCl
streets. ana houses provided with locks
nu1 fastonings of modern and imp owed
designs. avail TO reduce the average OF
successful crime 90 the lowest minimum
POSSIBLE. yet I'm spite OF every known
safeguard and prCcauilon the crooked
fraternity s0ll manage 90 ply their nee
farOus vocation too successfully for the
general well-being and security.
Indeed. devices for maintaining the au-
thority and dignity of law and devices
for evadng and setting both M naught
seem 10 be invented ana perfected parI
pass1
one would suppose that The life of a
professional criminal. even under IFS most
favorable aspects would De q most un-
onviable and harrassing existence. The
social osiracism. the isolation from ai
that is good. pure and wholesome. tine
ever haunting fear of poiccman's tam
ON the shoulder. or the detectives r-um
urrfinacitv. besides felou's cell or tNe
eailows' tree. 90 close the perspective,
would. 70 seems. Doe enough 90 deter men
from life of which such rcuul..re frf-
lures from am inevitable c0nc0mitant.
yet apparently DO fails OF that effect. Joe
cruits To the ranks of crime are never
wanting. weu and women. calloW youth,
and erizzlod age swell the contingent
that rally round crimes foul flag.
our FUN iails and ucnltentiares. our
chain gangs. and penal parapncrnai'a of
sundry kinds AN avail 10 prove that how
ever great fits Inconvenience and olIe
its penalties. even q career OF crime has
its attractions and compensationf
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