Show OX NIC gives a few words of adrice the has no further claims on mo feb 28 1889 I 1 reached this point 1 found in of forwarded the following peculiar dear sir along with other good c I 1 am pleased to see alic auti m ani larian efforts now being made to demise some form of kiick rind painless tor our murderers and other criminal who may hac to suffer alic penally lucli efforts denote a and cultivated society one thai would in no way countenance alic slightest injury even to the most wicked dude thit smokes cigarettes on alic elevated stations As one good another and as by some chance one of nice good intention people inny under an star coic in contact with ono of in profession in his regular business you would most certainly fill a long fell want if you would invent some and painless for a criminal to murder his victim are too often lingering and painful aly should not be a reform an fn llma way should you kindly lend your genius to kielp our profession in that way you would gain llie lasting gratitude of the public as well as of many feb 21 in replying briefly to the above I 1 will bluto diat no burglar ever cuciuc toiny to iny bouso for a favor and went away disappointed provided I 1 was able to contribute to his auls and provided lie went at it in the eglit I 1 have jumped on a burglar behind his back or taken advantage of my cical to do him up when a burglar is in my house lie is my guest if he be willing to take things as he finds them lc will have no trouble with me hut I 1 bc tant as a class burglars arc already boic than other people 1 hesitate to do anything to advance their interests until industries hac been fostered more burglars presume too lunch licca they have free and cart blanche to the drin ing rooms of our people alicy want alic carah anil make themselves disagreeable I 1 dionot to laurl iho fc cling of our cone pendent can bially if he lakes alic paper regularly bill for one I 1 am going lu quit protecting ami toil eting alio llio infant industry of american burglary as pauper burglar of europe I 1 say let us get our burgling done by the best and cheapest methods let our take its chance petition with aliat of effete monir chias just as everything else will have to do some day in alic meantime I 1 do not propose to do anything in a newspaper way that will look like an attempt to alic burglar vote let the burglar rustle for ins wages the way I 1 do and iho way other ork ii do I 1 know that burglars claim they arc poorly paid because luicir work keeps them up at night so much but newspaper men have to nights also and unless they can rob a prosperous burglar once in a while the leave a isaid row to hoe ami what have alic burglars done foe me that I 1 should no be called upon lo 10 advance their interests when alicy had no other place to go have they int always fell free to come lu my lio ilsc and how have they rewarded my hospitality when alicy went through my house last year and found a condition of bilings which would have moved the st oniest heart they do they stole a valuable album which had been sent roc to write in ami I 1 had it to pay for took a valuable had borrowed a few years ago and which I 1 intended to return to th owner niter a they alu some cold lice and sorghum which had byln set alic usuff oilier guests they left the aatu opan so clial alic cows got in and ale up my lima beans now I 1 am to bac my in alic direction of belter sandbag sand bag facilities for burglars and a moro rc linic style of rapid transit between the the new jerusalem in beird pa fc I 1 will that 1 avns running for ilni ll ni ii exl I 1 ciul to do bilings alic fotr but now I 1 am firm in my outspoken fur aliat 1 tu be right A inai in trying lo 10 bo liia in the portfolio u justice u aliu Iea cuLs not a frei inorio it n or its ba in oilier ot licea but it m rectally reci ally ao with ii of alic alicc li cc 1 now propose the help of tin iino an earnest ellort un auy pati to oft alic burglar ami out and take higher ground I 1 will go further anil include the patrons of argony organizations izat ions voicu will be heard in more ol o 01 l less stentorian lonca in the of u trial will be alic a lesa fortunate petty which gets ninety d iya burglar alio kiy liivi for me in the old jays aire hereby noti biej that the autograph album annl lima beans offset account iino that it is i s my earnest wish so far i it w in my izower durina iho rc iua ining ye ira amny be gran led me to live blown aind forget the dark and devious days when 1 was in politics I 1 believe clial c nier and more painless methods for the nil ministration of capital punishment will soon pc perfected whereby a man who is executed by alie law will not be entitled to any more glory or flowers than one who dies of pneumonia to eliat end I 1 am willing to work that is accomplished complis hed I will devote my halting powers to the further amelioration of our race hut the burglar lias no further political claims on me men who come here from a distance desiring to purchase green backs at forced sale or to obtain gold bricks of those who arc com 1 polled to sell them for a mere song will always be ameliorated in now york cily so long as my good right arm shall not forget her cunning visitors who come here for alie purpose ot going on it but that ca stward the star of vampire takes ils way will have to get their outside this I 1 aim willing to do what I 1 can for alie promotion of science and the painless pulling of burglars but that is as fu ns 1 would go moreover 1 liepe that our correspondence will not continue anny longer who and entertained me when I 1 wa iu politics have long since erased to ilo so tin truth of the matter is that all other ions have made rapid politics and burglary arc just where bluy m a hundred years ago one reason why burglary lias not made more lipid brides I 1 to be because berglu s do not advertise they rely solely upon luicir insight and keen penetration alie result is eliat burg lira and burglary have fillou off I 1 do not believe in trying to kielp a profusion so abundantly able to help itself kill nye in the boik world |