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Show il. . ..-jittLat . . : . : .-I i : : '.I ve c- ; ;'ayi.: c. ; . t r. :.. .t e-, f. r n j : ;er t::at I t cry t: I v;t to a l:t t: ."--cc3, tc';;, cui I I to ii'zl n;:.:y ca ths c-l ! . ? a : :: I f.": .7. I v;a3 v.-c:I.i: ; tl ' r., tut ..:r r. f jw x ys f;r t:j liTirg ha t?.?n't c:t much rr.y 1 - ft to fort cn. . t.-3 tailed it over and planned a tcIJ- cp. Pet Lai tora gczs end we stuck up a place srJ f-t a lot c nc-ej a l:t for us then. "I w3 scared then that I would be caught, but after that first job ft sort o' came natural. . . , . "We were in Kdeep we didn't dare get caught, and EVERY 'JOB MADE IT WOESE. "Two or throe times I nade up my mind to quit the whole game but I kept at it. "If you want a warning, I'll give it CUT OUT BAD COMPANIONS. A feller won't be very tough when he's alone." Now these three boys are condemned to die on the scaffold for murder. Can any Salt Lake boy gain a, lesson from this? Tba R.osd to ths Gcllows. "BAD -COMPANIONS AND DIME NOVELS." This was the answer given by Harvey Van Dine, one of the trio of; condemned car-barn murderers in Chicago, when asked the question, "What made you .a bandit?" ' . . ' ' "DIME NOVELS AND BAD COMPANIONS," -answered Gustave Marix, another of the triol "RUNNING ABOUND WITH TOUGH KIDS and reading dime novels and HANGING OUT LATE AT NIGHT around tough dumps and readying read-ying -about fellers that pulled off jobs and got big r. wads of money that's the way it started," an- ess T .wered Peter Neidermyer, the third bandit . , Z . Here is a lesson from life that bears -its own loraL - , Van Dine elaborated his story, and is worth re- gating, carrying its own comment: ... .: "I hardly understand it myself. I was a pretty ood kid, and always studied at school andxknew : ay lessons, although I ran away a lot of times. I ; ad a lot of five and ten-cent novels, and I liked to ; ?ad them. But I always wanted to be the hero, .' nd not the villain, although some of them had the . obber for the hero. My folks' kept me pretty : tralghrfor a time, and made me go to school I'm yt blaming them for what has happened. It's all l iy own fault. . .' ; , r. . ' V. "After I got to work and got to making money - T wanted to have enough coin to KEEP UP WITH I HE OTHER FELLOWS. When a kid is about : teen or seventeen years old he'll DO MOST ANYTHING ANY-THING FOB MONEY. "7 "I learned to shoot, and I used to practice a lot-: lot-: liked to have guns and dogs, and I liked to hunt "I always liked to read about robberies. I re-.: re-.: :mber Pat Crowe's job made a great hit with me; " time he captured that Cudahy kid. ' "WelL I never drank much. We got to running " round nights after I knew Pete and Marx, and we . '.fed a lot in saloons. ' . . - - "Pete told us a lot about what he had done out "est and the big jobs he'd pulled off. "The first job we ever did was crawling Into a ziovf and touching a schoolhouse for some things :t vre wanted. We all got pinched for that "I n:vcr did lite-a copper anyhow, and 'Miked |