The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-26
LED DOUBLE LIVES.
Criminals Whose NeighbOrs Thought
Them Good.
From Tit-Bits.

From Tit-Bts.
1t is a curious fact, said a leading
New Scotland Yard official, that many
of the most daring and dangerous
criminals have been known in private
life not only as quiet, peaceable men,
but as the most pleasant and popular
neighbors.
This, oddly enough. seems to be
especially the case with men who go
in for the more violent forms of crime,
such as burglary 1t is not many
weeks since the Glasgow gentleman
burglar" was sentenced to six years
penal servitude. Although this man
had spent II years of his life in con-
Wet prisons, he was one of the most
delightful. hospitable and popular of
fellows; he had his town and seaside
houses, sumptuously appointed yacht
and his pair of graysi entertained his
friends in a princely manner, and was
voted by all who knew him the best
of good fellows"
He even had a reputation for piety,
and was Jealous churchgoer, al
| though he would occasionally leave the
= church before service was over to ran
! sack the house of one of his friends
who had accompanied him there.
| Some years ago there was no more
amiable and respected man in Bristol,
England, than Mr.. Isaac Morgan. The
children simply idoiZed him, and no
wonder, for his house was always full
of them. He spent small fortune in
entertaining his young friends, arrang-
ing picnics and treats" for them,
feasting them on sweets and juvenile
delicacies of all kinds, and, of course,
captivating the hearts of their par
ents. Anyone who knew him would
have told you that Isaac was dar-
ling and yet Isaac was one of the
most daring hotel thieves In the an
nails of crime; and. after long career
of infamy was sentenced to eighteen
years penal servitude.
Peace, the well-remembered murderer
and burglar, was man of unimpeaeh-
able life and reputation in suburban
society, the very type, in fact, of mid
dle-class respectability--a regular
church attendant, and a quiet, peace
full nefghbor who had no dissipation
beyond his music and his pony and
trap; and Orrocks, the Dalston muir
derer of Constable Cole, was a jealous
church worker, and, | believe, used to
carry the plate for collections.
Then there never was more phi
lanthropic man than Edwards, the
cleverest forger and coiner of his day.
His name figured in every subscrip-
ton list, he was one of sidesmen In his
church and rarely failed to put in an
appearance at every service. He organ
lied concerts, both sang and played ex-
cellently at them and was a prime
mover in several bazars. But poor
man, his activities came to an abrupt
termination when he was arrested on
the point of leaving a temperance
meeting at which he had taken the
chair, and for great many years his
services have been lost to the church
One of the most charming men the
srytt Ht- n 1rraA. H..
who was quite the most popular resi-
dent in a northern suburb anf London.
He was a fourishing solicitor in large
practice, and his geniality and amiabil-
ity were such that 1t was impossible to
know him without in way loving him.
And yet, as was afterward learned, all
the time he was practicing a series of
the most heartless frauds on his eli
ents, embezzling the last penny even
of his wife and her sister. and to-day
he is fugitive from Justice in some
unknown part of the world. -
But perhaps the most hardened and
clever hypocrite of them was a noto-
rious burglar who for some years
posed as a philanthropist in an east
ern county town at a time when he
was committing burglaries at the rate
of a dozen a month.
Out of his spoil he established an
infirmary, paying the entire cost of
its maintenance and visiting and COM
forting the patients like any benevo-
lent Samaritan. His purse was always
open to every demand made on il. and
wherever there was distress of any
kind there was always one helping
hand ready and eager to relieve it. But
the time came when this local Provi-
dence was rudely removed from the
scene of his charitable work; and
when. to the CONSERVATION of all his
neighbors, he was taken away like
Eugene Aram, he had "gyves upon his
wrists"