Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-16
try a similar stunt.

try a similar stunt.
 He was proud of the fact that his father would be able to furnish bond for him, and with all the confidence of his 'child-like comprehension of the whole affair, supplemented that with the assertion: And if I just let him know, he would get me out all O. K"
 There is nothing of the criminal or the crook about him. He is far more fool than knave. He has a mind that is not grown up, the sort of of eyes that are afraid to meet the gaze squarely. He shifts his position con stantly, and the weak, pointed, re- ceding chin is an index to tae weak mind that is back of it.
 There is not thing about him that indicates the crook who plans his crime and then coolly plans the way out. He simply acted on the impulse to steal, and then ran away, any where, simply with the idea of not getting caught.
 His conscience and his repentance are based on the fundamental idea of avoiding punishment. He does not realize that he is a thief and a pros. pectiye convict. He simply feels that | he is bad boy in disgrace. He has been told on by fate and he Is trying to avoid an application of the legal hickory.
 The worst thing to him is that he is shut up and cannot go out and seek the diversions which interest him. So long as he had the cigar to smoke, he was putting it on among n f- ion Alrs There is the keynote to his character. He wants to be making a hit. Vanity, vanity, vanity, the self-esteem of the fatuous youth who poses on street corners and worries for fear every hair of his head is not laying on the right side of the part in the center
 The theftk of s2500 worth of dia- monds is crime big enough to en- gage the energies of man-wise crim. iraL. This is the case of Hamlet be- ing understudied in the crook line by a scullion at the trade.
 Except Tor his own statement that he did tue thing unwittingIy and with out indictment, the reader oE human nature would instinctively swear, after ten minutes talk, that he was put up to 1t by stronger mind, and that the stronger mind is getting out from under. Allowed to get out from under, perhaps, because of a vain idea of chiyalry in the poor tools mind
 He will plead guilty to the charge as soon as he has an opportunity, of taat there is no doubt. But he is as well off, for if he escaped he is exact ly the sort Of fellow who would have walked into tha first jewelry store he saw and sold the whole bag for $50 or pawned one for meal ticket.
 He admits that he had not the slightest idea of how to dispose of the sparklers, except that he thought that he would find somebody who might want to buy them"
 Imprisonment in the penitentiary will not reform him or make him afraid to repeat the experience. It Will simply make of aim a second class crook for life, the sort of crook that real captains of criminal indus try use for stool pigeons.
 And at that, the suggestion cannot be kept out of the mind that he may be. after all, the burden-bearer in this first instance. He looks it, acts it, and talks it unconsciously. Ten min utes with Scott forces the wonder in- voluntarily to the mind: "who put that weakling up to it?'
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