The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-11-25
MUGS OF NEW YORK
,,,oi7ed Outlaws Who Commit
Crime for Hire.
IvF A SCHEDULE OF PRICES

LINN LawIessness in the Great
~'st side Where Murderers May
n [ Engaged at so Much a Homi-
do Where and How These OFF,
..ouriugs of Society Live.
,,rw YORK.-Organized ruff1an-
is a phase of life in this great
world metropolis and the con-
..d East Side teens with outlaws,
will commit any crime in the
oIooue for a stipulated sum. Ac-
,ding to former Chief of Police
worry who knows as much about
nrodatorv elements of New York
&c any man living, you may have
enemy beaten, mutilated or even
HE'D provided you furnish the re-
irod cash. The regular charges
said to be $40 for administering
.ound beating, including discolora-
In of the eyes, and perhaps the
Osoning of teeth; $50 for breaking
Subjects nose or excecating him;
Z o0 for preparing him for delivery
s. an hospital and $500 for murder
him outright,
Vile OfsCOurings.
The GANGS engaged in this shock
business comprise the Vilest Off
oprjngs Of the criminal population,
Dir members ranging in age and
Gree of disreputability from super
snuated porch climbers, bank burg
IS and highway rObber, through
Inv grades of crapulous blacklegs,
In birds and juvenile malefactOrs to
p human vermin that crawl at the
sck doors Of the brothels, the Ca
is" of the Red Light District ="
Scking the courage essential to an
sRen criminal career, faint of heart
hem uninfamed by alcohol, perpe-
Ating their crimes under cover of
8rkness and the protection of num-
ms. they drag out a foul and in
NIitous existence and die in sQualid
Nding places, in prison or the elee-
"a chair. or are killed in drunken
Muds among themselves. No sOrTier
Dr. more despicable, and at the same
b. no more pitiable, a crew may be
&nimed up by the most ribald mag
aaton.
q The habitat of the great bulk of
gang membership is the BOwery
Ald its purlieus From Canal street
81 Bayard, on the west side Of the
#orougbfare, every building is a
#eap lodging house, and from Chat
~ square to Cooper Union they
#enate with almost every other
#iIiing on both sides of the street
@ese lodging houses are from four
q SIX stories i'm height Ten or Is
Us is the price of a bed, and they
e as close together on each floor
they can be placed. Here these
#sotted outlaws sleep. In China
#Tn, at the Chatham square end of
Sc Bowery, and in the tumbledown
#Okeries of the adjacent streets 9th
u are housed all the year around
#aiting the beck of the ward heel
n and meanwhile making bare
NRtenance from sporadic crime.
Harvest of Murders.
q These are the knaves who will
PIN or murder for money. The I'M
#ntlhed dead found in the streets
b New York, or taken out of the
NeIS average nearly one per day.
IN now many of these come to death
= violence it is impossible to ascer-
H. clemens. the criminOlogist, has
81 ipIed statistics showing that an
8tFage Of 240 known murders are
8Hmltted annually in this city. and
a estimates that at least % that
II never heard of occur each year.
sequehtlE when unidentified bodies
II OdHeh from the water or found
q the streets there are on them
LAS Vi weapons and some of these
IT are known to be the result Of
ailI'.ue, put in most instances the
.I"er III which the injuries have
u InIllcted is never ascertained.
.nouI the Identification of a body
Le IS little chance of tracing a
'''' ana IN how many instances the