The sun., 1900-08-24
RESURRECT P|LLORY
This is the Only Way to Stamp
Out "RoId-Ups" and Might
Providers" Says PinkertOn.
CAT-O-NlNE TAILS
Would be an Invaluable Adjunct as
Proven Definitely by Exper-
fences in the State of
Delaware, Says
This Expert.
BY WILLIAM i. PINKERTON.
Special to The Sun.

Special to The sun.
Chicago, ILL.,, August 23.--At meet
ing Of the National Chiefs of Police i'll
Cincinnati in May last, Il discussion
arose among the officers present as to
the hest means of suppressing the "hold-
ups" who were operating i'll most of the
large cities, as also to stop the night
| burglars otherwise known among the
police as 'prowlers" or might workers"
whose speciality is the robbing of dwell
ing houses during the sleeping hours of
the night.
| In this discussion | gave as my opin-
ion and still believe, that nothing will
stop this class of crime except the whip
ping post and the pilory or the pillory
in connection with the whipping post.
The laws of the country should be
| changed to punish these thugs in the
most severe manner.
In the little State of Delaware where
the whipping post and pillory are used,
there is less crime of this character than
in any one county that can be selected
in the United States. The reason is
evidcnt-those who thieve for living
dread the whipping post and pillory.
Over twenty years ago Il gang of
noted bank burglars from New York
City went to Wilmington, Del. to rob a
bank. Their plans We're to enter the
cashiers house, quietly seize and bind
every member of the family, then by
torture on other means compel the cash
Cr to disclose the combination of the
vault. This was before the time locks
for bank safes and vaults had been in
troduccd. All worked smoothly and
every member of the family had been
bound and gagged except negro SER
want girl who attempted to hide under
the bed, where the burglars discovered
her and dragged her out. While they
were putting her on her feet she sud
denly holted through an unguarded door
and ran frantically through the streets
calling for help.
The burglars as result were compell-
ed to abandon their plans but were cap
tured in their attempt to escape; were
tried, convicted and sentenced to ten
years i'll the penitentiary, 40 lashes and
one hour in the pillory. They could
, endure the ten years in the penitentary
but the pillory and the lashes on the
bare back was a terrible contemplation
The forty laSheS We're laid on by Il
big burly fellow who used horse whip,
as did the typical step-father we read
, about The four kinds of their profess
sion We're humiliated still further by
being placed in stocks wnere all had Il
chance to gaze on them. From that day
to this there have been no bank bur-
! glarics in Delaware or attempts.
= The professional "prowler" or house
' burglar is the most dangerous thief the
police officer or public have to deal with.
!, In more than thirty years in the de-
/, |, tcctive business | have come in contact
: with many of this class of criminals
e and there is not one, among all | ever
- knew, who would hesitate one moment
+ to kill If discovered i'll Il room and an
9 attempt ut outcry was made Their
4 first impulse is to stab with knife or
= shoot with a gun" and they shoot to
kill every time.
: The "hold-up'' or thug has sprung
into cNistance mainly within the past
2 two years. They are not from among
: professional criminals. but. rs II rule,
come from the hoodlum element in large
y cities. They do not hesitate to attack
4 anyone whom they meet in the dark or
q lonely places and their weapon is gen
II orally Il piece of lead pipe with which
il they knock their victim over the head
l. into inscnSihility and then rifle his
v pockets In numerous cases two OF
a three of these thieves have attacked one
man, and where he did not comply with
d their demands for all the value he had
l. about him, they shot and shot TO kill
e In my opinion there is no punishment
If too severe for the might providers" who
,e enter dwelling houses where they know
h there are sleeping families or the hold
ups or thugs who attack their victims
in lonely and dark places. They have
L murder i'll their hearts and will no
It hesitate to commit it, and for these Grim
inals | firmly believe in the restoration
of the whipping post and pillory.
This in substance is what | stated
before the convention of the Natona
" Chiefs of Police in Cincinnati in MAJ
last and my views on the subject wer
endorsed very strongly by n number o
10 the chiefs Of other cities who wer
OF present.
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