Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-15
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| LONDON. March li.--Crime is on the
Increase. There is no doubt of that
| There is wave o. Iawiessnesa sweep
ing over the world which at present
universal. have been in tho principle
cities OF the western world during the
| past year and the record is the same.
y; various times IN decade some
alarmist looms up and tells us that a
wave OF crime is passing over the city
or country. whichever ii may he. Some
times these calamity howlers are right;
OF the chronic kicker. However, con-
siderlnE the numerous serious crimes
that have seen described in the Lon
! don papers since my visit here. IL
appenrs that violcn: crime is spreading
rapidly.
| tho prevailing increase of lawlessncss.
! However. ] can the hand OF the
master criminals OF prc-war days again
New wS Yor n and only n1l N Lonlon bu, in
the pest OF men, put them into tho
irenches Tor i've years and youll not
at tne start. What. therefore, lis the
result when criminal or near-crinl-
ma! VINO mas spent four or five years in
| me me irnn' line: lie will assuredlyt and
4, parhaps, fuil-ilcdged one, with more
| violence IN mis- makeup than when hc
Went into the trenches. There in the
iron; line he mee;s grim violence face
70 FACE. He comes 10 look upon human
/. sifa as OF little value. This together
| "iH me fact that the criminal or
Srnl! criminal has not the intellect and
! VII! that his stronger brother has and
! - not able 10 put aside the habits Of
ms trench life combine 20 mako the
| path OF crime the easiest one 10 fol-
| low At the first opportunity to com
| NIT 4 crime he easily succumbs TO tho
! temptation and lets neither violence
nor human life stand between hin,
and his object.
! Criminals, EuIorixed
Resides all this. i; must not be for
! gotten that We are living in an age
when the criminal IS being made "A
t nero on our stage. Crook dramas and
win sensational and oftentiincs SEN
timenial rot. both in the theators and
| eini'nas. 1t is no wonder if many OF
! selves as heroes or sad creatures OF
I tatc.
bombroso. Ferraro. .Coriat. Musso
/ gwen thought 10 this subject. have also
/ ny, their writings encouraged crimi-
/ na;s more, i; my cstimation. than they
! breaker. They tell us that the crimi-
nal Is throwback a savage who
T Tnfhan hay, haze liz! lived in the stone age
, tel us further that he is TO nc piticd
/ pccause he IS the result Of something
beyond his control. While ,he general
! Dubhc does not believe this, vet il is
I my experience that many offenders
@I,her by reading, or hearing other
loss rnS;,, discuss the subject, know
: everything the scientists have TO saw
about tncir tribe. The result ~ thu;
many OF them go to "job" like the
ordinary mortal goes 10 church; with
!. HietE ana iat2liSm that says: We'll
get caught II will be another i've
! year stretch which VIII all be Il part Of
my mar;yrdom."-
The same crime Scientisfs used "a
write pages about the shape of the
cr!minnlS head; the bat-iike ears. the
nracephaiic or hydroccphalic physiog :
nom" b% which one could distinguish a
crimina! squares away.
! One Crook an Adoimis.
We who have had experience IN
dealing .e:s with the criminal classes know
s saan IS an po,etie mInttsring We have
lures OF AN Adonis: a mentality cuua;
10 the most learned college professor.
who after. we had traced and captured
chief who had broken into his home.
l0td me that he always suspected the
and had because ysay ne was efs,handed
pianation was Of SO much interest to
me mat asked him few question $
ana J learned that he had been read
ing Quantities Of detective fiction In
current magazines. BUT. as so MANY
nave pointed out in the past. this kind
solve th "e' .gm is G"a, II tends to alb
i, ~. The learned men feel his bumps
! itna o say, say: lie cannot be blamed. He
b., nn,,,u '"1H Wy from birth. Nothing
yLo",u nave saved him from doing what
~ n.u. IAey give him dose OF some
mig ana await beneficial results
, hut those experienced in detective
mIrh agree with me when ! say that
crime dhd not thrive in tho dayas,yhen
me nlehtsticl and long sentences were
, ~ yoene-~and l>ombroso and the senti-
a nehtai playwright still unheard OF In
r those Gays in New York crime wave
. lasted 1mat ono day, for the authorities
n gave the word 20 act. and act with
: Jorce. There was no dilly- daily,
mere was action and lots OF IT, but
q the next day the city was clean
2 Danish Short Sentence.
y INC only possible way 10 control
inc present crime epidemic which is