Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-05-17 | Page 6 | Criminals' Confessional

rylng copies ef Isvestls, In Russia, waiting rooms are fitted with hlddsa microphones and conversations heard by da-tectlvea da-tectlvea last wsek revealed details de-tails ef stretches in prison. Jobs ' accomplished since. When one by one the group waa taken into the office of C.I.D. Official L. Shelnln, "Pegtop." a plrkpockst stated he had beea a thief since he waa lft and had dona a term In prison, Whea ba saw tha letter ia Isvsetia he repented. ( A thief nicknamed "Cockroach" atated ha had beea In every Jail from Vladivostok to Moscow, and only thrse days before he saw the note In the paper had stolen , a isather coat from Moscow university. uni-versity. Asking to be given a clean slats, ha promised ta keep atralght In future. Pur-coated, handsome "Count ) Kostta" told how he worked Tranasiberlan railway flrst-daas passengers with a girl who get friendly with men In the sleeping sleep-ing compartmants, put a drug la ' their drinks, took their money. Taksn to Vlehlnsky's office, the troupe was told that sines " thsy had coma ef their own accord ac-cord they would be given their ' J chance. News Review, London. CRIMINALS' CONFESSIONAL A short letter published In Isvsstla (Truth) and algnad "A Young Thief," haa started a new problem for Soviet Russia's C.I.D. Confseslng hia Crimea, the apprentice ap-prentice burglar anonymously asksd Isvestls If he would get any complete forgiveness aad a clean start, if ha voluntarily gave himself up and confessed. When Ixveatta gave a cold but encouraging answsr, ths youngster young-ster called at C.I D. headquarters in Moscow, asked to see Andrew Vlsainsky, feared publlo prosecutor, prosecu-tor, and waa ushsrsd into aa anteroom containing a dosea other furtive Russians, moat car-