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Show EZACII AMERICA NEW YORK, May 3:Ca the theory t u many of tbe holdup and other r nes committed along the New York '"t front are tho work of ex-convicts ii .urnp, who get ashoro without knowledge of the immigratioa an-i an-i .riiies as petty ottieere ? incoming k merv, ths National Reform asso-non asso-non of this city has decidsd io un iHke an independent inspection of I srnving liners, with a view to Idea- nig any snglinh convicts who may i unsigned as niembers of the ersw. A retired tmuft-Atlantie captain who is directing this novel investigation de- res that an Kngliah prisoa aid so- v it the chief offender, systamati- i .v shipping ex-eonviets acre under t i gmr of umler officer of the big '. I a is. The convicts, be savs, are on lni ships manifests ss Hfth, ixth snd seventh oihcers, but when tb boat arrive on this side they walk ashore snd sever return. i |