The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-08-25

chants II law abiding citizens. He
will tell them how they "a best pro-
tect their property. He will expose the
secrets of the profession in which he
has been a bright and shining light. He
will tell them Of the ways of criminals
and of the devices Of crooks. His lee
ture will be illustrated by himself. He
will perform the deeds as he describes
them. This is the announced reason for
Appo's presence in Buffalo. There are
those who recall that Apo came to
Buffalo once before, when New York
got very hot for him. He was arrested
here and sent to New York.
Apo has friends in Buffalo. Just
who they are ever the police do not
know. Apo was with some of them
yesterday. Last night he appeared alone
at the southwest corner of North Di-
vision and Oak streets. A new building
is being built ON this corner. There are
piles Of brick on the pavement. Apo
stood in the shadow of the trees beside
one of the piles of brick. Soon after he
appeared seven people who knew he
was in town gathered there. Apo had
seen them all during the afternoon and
had told them that if they would be at
the corner at 9 o'clock in the evening
he would give them an idea of the way
crooks work. All of the men were on
time. They formed a circle around APP
DC, who stood in the center and began
his talk.
Apo is an interesting man in appear
ance as we'll as on account of his pro-
fession. He is understood and simply
built. His father, according to Appo's
statement, was Of Chinese extraction.
Appo's skin is a copper yellow. His
hair is heavy and black. He lost his
right eye at ~Poughkeepsie while on a
green goods job. He wears a glass eye
now. His left eye is dark brown and is
drawn outward. There is a bad scar
over the right eye. There is a long
cicatrix on his throat and the left side
of his neck. A brother crook tried to
cut his throat and succeeded. Apo has
Is other scars received in plying his
profession. His voice is thin and soft
and high. He talks almost in a whis-
per. He is deaf in the left ear, and the
hearing in the right is badly impaired.
He wore q plain black suit Of clothes,
with a double breasted sack coat, black
tie and black pot hat. His coat was un-
buttoned and hung loosely about him.
He talked to his hearers in a converse
tional way, illustrating what he said.
This is the first time / have been in
Buffalo since / gSt out Of the peniten-
tiary the last tine" said Apo. II
have been out now almost three months.
You know I was sent up for six months.
The facts are familiar to you. and I need
not tell them again. What I want to do
is to earn an honest living. am sick
@ Of crooked work. When | quit it some
time age, | quit it for good. You dc
not know how hard it is, though, for a
man who has been a criminal and o
crook to get a job and earn an homes,
living. People say that once a crooi
always a crook. They all advise Others
to help you, but they never help you
themselves. | propose to help mysel
by helping them. People fear thieves
Naturally they do not want their prop
erty stolen. Yet every day we hear O
robberies and thefts and petty larcenie
performed so successfully that the pc
lice can get no track of the crook. II.
more q man knows about a thing tn
better able he is to protect himself fror
the dangers OF it. If a merchant know
all about the ways Of stealing, he ca
take steps to prevent himself from be
ing robbed. II people were more intel