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Show CRIMINALS ARE FATALISTS. Always Stick to Their Specialty, if Caught Often. "Criminals seem to be tho strongest kind of fatalists." remarked Judge Ncff of Pittsburg recently. Judge Neff Is widely known as an authority on criminology, crimin-ology, and hla long experience as prosecutor, prosecu-tor, Judgo and lawyor has given him unusual unu-sual opportunity of studying scientifically tho causes and tJharaclerlatlcs of crime "I have noticed that when a criminal Is arrested after Mulshing ono sentence, the eecond charge Is generally the same aa-tlio aa-tlio which llrst got him Into trouble. It eeems like a strange kind of fatality I've known Instances whore ono criminal has been arrested and. punished five or six times on charges exactly the same. "What makes them do It? I'm not sure I can explain It satisfactorily, but I know it to bo the case. It has occurred to me, nnd possibly thls is the simplest explanation, explana-tion, that tho reason for a criminal adhering adher-ing strictly to ono lino of work Is the sumo as tho fascination which holds a gambler to a table, although luck Is against him. Each falluro or each loss shows the victim a point which he hns hitherto been ignorant of. and It Is eaay to convinco himself that the next tlmo ho will cscapo that mistake. And so It goes. Ever the noxt time. Just one more chance, und then another, over confident that tho luck must change, and Hint each turn of tho wheel leaves him Just that much better bet-ter equipped and that much more likely to win finally. Then there is thc desperation, despera-tion, tho unconscious and gritty determination determi-nation to make a success of the thing. "If he fallu and Is arrested, convicted and punished, the process of the law simply sim-ply goes to show him wherein his llrst Job was bungling and poorly carried out. The flrpt fooling of resignation that follows tho bitterness of punishment Is when he tells himself that noxt tlmo he will not repeat the error which led to his detection detec-tion on the present occasion No sooner Is he out of tho penltcntUry than ho essays es-says again to try his luck, this tlmo carefully care-fully avoiding tho mlBlake which llrst brought him to grief. "It Is a well-known fact that no criminal, crimi-nal, no matter how export or how daring, can cover up nil his tricks. Tho verv bcBt of them will leave at least one loop hole, will commit at least ono error, which eventually fastens tho guilt upon him. Thc poorer criminals leave clues according accord-ing -to their skill or experience. So our Imaginary crook, the second time he plans a Job, while ho carefully avoids a repetition repeti-tion of his llrst error. Is almost sure to make some other one. And so on, each succeeding crlmo and detection pointing out to hlin tho Ihfes of his weakness, so that he Is Irresistibly led onward to his destruction "Detroit Tribune. |