OCR Text |
Show or REFORMED CRIMINALS 151 UCCESS FAST 2 A AFTER. BLOTTING OUT THE lI atweessoso aNCE ao sum seeeolos 0 retutinale ever reforms. non, sure "te a sew loot sod Weems gaol (Bisector I trt'd tbe 'mottos at molest. CU dreaming what a wealth of interesting sad teuvinciag anecdote It woold evoke. sem it !be la Se I1 Lark HAMA 1,111111 I . III! I ' I 11 11 till 111 .:1:1 lc k'Dis'q' lost nerer turn straight But it hull so. Thou ut crooksand I dou't loran one time offenders. oot wen In the class we call hardened eriminals oe become honest men to my knowledge. It is tr le. as tonne reeret writer said. that as many men torn ia neiLt as there are honeet is that so TIPSSOMI the one of rooked. but I believe I donl band. a lend to helping few men are willing he is if reform to is crook ready mean that every makes it bard mean that I do society but encouraged. lead so for any man who has onee been a criminal to 6. to prison. 'In those ci.iss the Northwestern Railroad used wood for fuel. and the wood agent of the road was Amos Snelltbe same Such who was later murdered by 'Willie' Tascott Ile lived in a suburb of Chicago. and one night Jerry and his crowd went out there and 'stuck up' the whole familyrobbed them of everything they had. John was along with them. lying in the bottom of the hack. The police got a clew through the hack driver and rounded up the whole band. All of them, including John, were sentenced to dse yeara each except Jerry. NVheu be came into tbe hands of the police a citizeu who had been held up on the street some time before identified him as the holdup man, and on the strength of that the Judge gave him fifteen years. It was an unjust sentence, for Jerry bad nut committed the was found out later. "Well. John's old Colonel and some other army men and toy father got together and got a pardon for John. who had merely gone along with the crowd and had taken no part In the robbery. He went back to work at his trade of brass Buisher, but Jerry stayed in Joliet rebelliug against those long unjust years of his sentence. "Jerry was put to work In the engine room of the privet' and soon displayed great aptitude for Machinery. He served out his term. with time off for bold-upth- , I A 14 ,0-- '' ' 1,,,,, li t..,..111 io ( . '.. ( 1, 0 , i ... '11'11 4 'N , , ....7 - '....""----.. ,!- .4,....... "'''- ''', ....mit,111...E1 a,..1 lestelti--- , .0 ... l i II I ta -- 14 - ---- - m.),k il,V ssnoplAsomel tt ke4 - zX 1 e". I Apr 'Itir , 4 1, A ,;,,,,, .. 1 i ,t, ::.T-1. i lo ill. 11 ' 00 ....,....3r- 7,1 , 1 :,... ,...,::, 76.....07: 1 ,,, s' X t ts . 4 : 41.- - , V .1p. .V. ran"! . 't i v 1 I ri li l LI 1 I 1 -t- ,fil''; e "I've Cut That All Out," He Said. "I'm not Going To Be a Gun Any More." was over the warden and the Prison Board were so grateful they got "Jim" a pardon and wade up a purse of $350 for him. With the money in his pocket be came right to Chicago to see me. I began to lecture him on the futility of going back to the life be bad led before. "'I've cut that all out.' be said. 'I'm not going to I've been studying medicine be a gun any more. down there In Nashv !lie. The doctors have been telling me things and giving me medical books to read, anil now I want to get into one of these colleges where i can get a diploma quick.' "There were a nurcher of diploma factories, as the lower class of medical colleges were called, running WbV10 , it 1 ....,.. 4, , then. and Jim found be had money enough to gu through one of themlu the front door and out the back. But he got his tUplows and license to prac-- time and started for one of the new towns in the West. I looked him up there a while ago. Be comes pretty near to being the most 'prominent citizen of the town. Ile is a director in a national bank and the leading physician, and has officiated at the Wrths of half the present population. Moreover, he is pat enthusiastic church menitper. But how long do you think It lake for the whole town to torn a; Cann blin if they should ever learn out tbere that he is 'Jimmy the In Chicago Nib-bier- '? "Crooks that turn straight? Your next door neighbor, your family physician. even your clergyman. may be one of 'them. The world is full of them. There was One man, a professional Met a fello'v who bad duple time In half a dozen State prisons and penitentiaries, whom I used to labor It earnestly every time he got out, but he apparently never tried to reform. Ile was always doing time, it seemed. "I lost track of him for several years. Then. two years ago. when the National Association of Chiefs of Police was in session In Buffalo, I found a note in my box In my hotel signed by this man's name. He said The Quarrel of Fishermen With Motor Boats the farmer hated the first automobile co the wiiiingly relinquish their preetige. It must. In anybated the motor boat. The farmer case, be a brave man who would discredit lzaak Welsome of his prejudices viben he began to ton. Bnt it has proved there are men who tit euldin isis own automobile. and the fisherman to dare even that. and would quite heartlessly and ensextent changed his viewpoint as he added ually d scientific conmpirators is Pro- At the head of the auxiliary to Isis sails. But there is even yet a femur George II. Parker, of Harvard. He does not silty feud between farmers and motorists. and the fishermen that Esh can not hear. lie hits proved that some have a serious quarrel with the motor boats. fishes can. But their ways are peculiar. They bear They have also (the fieherment a serious quarrel no more with their ears then they do with their skin, with the navy. They have made such complaints of some. Muds of fish bear much better then others. the noise of gun practi,e by the battie ship that in and some localities they induced the Navy lepartnient to Theme things were foubd out aby putting tish in a gitut3 of water, with one end sounding board in place remove the ships. They charged that the fishing in tank a glass. A bass violin tering was rigged upen this, certain bays or shore waters was eotirely ruined at of some seaeons because the halt were frightened away end sometimes a tuning fork was used in tbe expertMent now by the tiring of guise. and everywhere along Obeervations dimelosed that when the base viol the coasts and in the big lakes 8,nd lower waters of the force another noise String WaS 'sounded the fish juniped, or otberwiae claim that rivers they with equal showed that It vvas distributed. Tide was because the Is a cause when fishing is poor. So much of an belle is this motor boat question that SOUStliDg board, in direct coutact with the water. on the treaty coast of Newfoundland, a scene of flatlet, vibrated and communicated its vibrations to tbe men's strife for years, new difficulties have arisen over water. whence the fish received them ob his lateral the Gloucester fishing boats with motors. and Canada line, hie seales and skin, or his ears, or all of these has refused to license them. together as might be. So also when the tuning fork We must admit sotue sympathy with thin outcry. Welt the place ef the bass viol striug. But It the sounding beard were discarded and the Except our neighbor's car, which chugs away under our window most any hour of the night, there is noth- tuning fork merely souteled in the room where the lug more hateful than the inceselant pop of the little aquarium might be, or If two balls should be clicked naphtha vehicles; thset Infest the water when we are out together over the tank, the fish would be found to for a sail or are guiding our graceful ortnoe. Small pay the very least bit of atteution, if any, provided wonder the poor ash ebould find his life quite uuenhe had beim blinded arid cook! not see what was durable and forsake his native shores! happening. And there Is, of course. chow& authority for the And there le the crux Of the matter. It le not that fishermen contentions. Did not Intik Walton him- the hob can not hear, but that they are out of reach self tell how neeeetoary it was for the angler to be of most sound& The surfaee of the water is a barrier quist lest his talk or his movements on shore give from which sound,' are reffeeted. Let two persons alarm to the fish be was trying to catch? And if Laud in the water and one of them ring a bell or tire there were still doubt that fishes note uoittee there is a pistol. Their ears are deafened by the sound, al- that Austrian monnetery. where the flab in the ponds moat But let our of theee people plunge his bead came up to he fed when the monks perkelleally rang under water when the noise occurs, and he will the hell. Only the ruthless scientist would attempt to bear It: or let the bell be rung under water wben till upset such fares. Lieteoer's bead Is above, and again the sound will be lint the world is developing ruthless scientists, nearlY Jost- along with its big guns arid motorboats. The fisherprofessor rarer need a similar test for motorboat men, having existed from time immemorial, do not noises, He plunged under water hltnselt with an estrs the witt noley scven horse powee motorboat exploding nbove him. With the escape pipe in the air. the eound was faintly audible under water. With the esenpe muffled under water, the souud was even fainter. But neither muffled nor unwonted did the sound reach the human ears under water with auything like the foree or penetration with which it afflicts the people oft mbore. This. of course, does not prove how loud the sound might be to a lish'it organs of bearing. But Professor Parker then penued up some fish in the "heart" of a pottlid bet oft shore, and had a motor boat run back arid forth while he watched the fish. Not a sign of disturbance did they give, no matter whether the exniuMed or uninuffied. plosioo Then the fiebes were tested with baited lines. While they were nibbling at the bait a motor boat was backed up from a distance of about tifty feet. Not until the boat was mix feet away did the nibbling StOtt. SISI Its soou US the boat withdrew about six or eight feet more . the fishes returned to the bait. They might have been frightened away by the churning 41t tile water and not by the noise. But however chat may be they took no notice whatever until the boat wax almost upoa them. 'rbe fishermen's case against lifirtil gun practice has not been so thoroughly demolished, for it has been difficult to find a time and a way to carry out the tests. But Professor l'arker did find that the effect of a tealuting charge of two pounds of powder from a six pound howitzer on the revenue cutter Gresham failed to elicit any notiee from fishett one thousand feet A fowling piece discharged a few feet from lliTs-y; in a cage caused them to forsake some bait they were nibbling, but they returned to it in bait a minute. Thus. neeerding to Profesoor Parker's fludings there is very little selentifir evidenee to support the fishermen's complalut The meter boat question, particularly. way be dismissed, for what sound there is under water conies with such gradual force, from a distance. and never sharply and suddenly. that the little they bear gives them no alarm. But even In the case of the guns it is not probable that fish would If they were diaturbed. be Pe yoncdrelvt7 away the place where their food is to They return at be feund. ,.,,.,Iiingly ore i 1441,V6WVIo Next- Week. - "Jean tI " -- A I by of shoat are este is spot yes? I - tel "'Toter the eddy alas la the world oho knows tal: be said y same sow Is $o sad adsiting Ea l'ae a respetied ta4 prosperous 11:11tkohd issame--- sed eitiaea. I just wanted to let pot Meow before 70111 found it oat for yoormit. for I knew you'd be on the Aad I was. No far es I teem he equate one was oot 'vented for anything. sedI skat good weak& hose come or ettessiog taut, 'Thieves who resist the Untwist's e to steal? Hale ortes one right here. only a few deeds of therm work,$ trout wort si are talking. Ile's the watch. asap la a big it warehoussad it there's ealthilie your professional thief likes testes'. abort et mewl al distnouds. its silk. fur yea eats get so much Valite Into so small a package. This teas was a pease-aton- al sate blower. sad did several Lig jobs. Wises L. got out of prison I helped him to get the job be bas Dow. Ilia employer knows his record. I told Ilt to bins on the man's on request When wort stops for the day this was is tett Owe in charge of new dreds of thousands of dolla-s- " worth of valuable silks. Ile Isn't bonded. for be couldn't get a hosannas It to wanted to. Ile bas held the job seven years mow, and not a cents worth bas been taken from the wares house in thud time. "You may say that be does not dare to Aril. that he knows a single false move on hi part wt11 be has as de. I bring Instant punishment But say And thousand sire to stealthat be has reformed. would If would reform society give criminals other of them baits chance. W ,..! Ls .... ,. , "Several years ago there was a series of hotel veto betiea in New York that bellied the polies The Ude with keys. opening doors tied then always worked and be always got unlocking- baggage left in rooms, ou. ni..ht the word At last the with goods. sway canto to headquarters that a was bad bees taught In one of the big hotels who was suspected of being I the author of all the robberies. I was visiting Chief Devon y at the time and he asked me to go with blin ' to the West Thirtieth street station to look the slas over. "The man arrested was a well dressed. respectable isms looking little roan. with a white beardthe last who would be taken for a thief if seen is a hotel corridor. Ills ties was vaguely familiar to me. bet ' I had some ditilculty in placing him. finally It street me. I bad seen bits nearly thirty years before os , the occasion of a big prise tight in New Crleans."Arbse trick. tame oval same It the for arrested been bad be me like a dash. and I told him I knew him. ''.lithat's the use of making trouble? be asked. 'Theist fools don't know anything about me Rims ,, . you put them wise. "I told Chief Devery what I rememereis sheet the man, who protested violently that he had never bees , In New Orleans ta his life. Then an her tbought struck me. "'You've been in New Orleans more,tban owe.' I said. 'The last thne was about all menthe ago. wbon diamonds In the St. you got Denman Thompeon's the report of that case, remembered I lloteL Charles but it was a chance shot on ivy part. for no one had seen the thief. The old fel?ow deeled this vigoS, - , ,44,4Wb44SOVWbt4.VIISS4,w4sWk41444M1414W1111..441414414SS,Ibibil44,1414, A8 sower .k Jet , - V f'" 11.161k I - . .. J1 i :'. -,. 1: -- Baffling Hotel Robberies. 1 - ' Reform of Jerry. pick-pocke- ,..,-..- ill Ittile;1 , I -- 1s: . i toy. "Now, here's a part of this story that will interest Robert had a friend who was chief engleeer you. of a building in Ann street. He told this friend about Jerry, and the engineer said he'd take a chance on Win. Ile put Jerry at work stoking the boiler at a dollar and a half a day. After a year or so there was a vacancy and Jerry became assistant engineer. A little while later the chief engineer resigned and Jerry. the became chief engineer. Ile left there after a while to take charge of a big plant on Long Island, and he sent for his brother John and gave him a Job. "A few years later the two brothers called on tne In Chicago. They bad saved about Stl.900 between them and were on their way to a new town in the West to start a manufacturing business of their own. Each bad married a girl who knew nothing of their prison record and bad children. They prospered exceedingly. John died several years ago, but oniy a few years ago, when my brother Hobert died. an old man, whom nobody but tnyself recognized, came from the West for the funeral and shed tears at the grave. It was Jerry. He is still living, and Is the leading citizen of his town and worth at least half It million dollars. "Criminals who reform? There are thousands of them. I remember a little Liverpool Irishman who t was a around New York. He was known as 'Jimmy the Nibbler. The police picked him up in Tennessee. where he lifted somebody's pocketbook, and he was sent to Nashville for seven years. In the Then prison they put him to work in the hospital. the cholera epidemic broke out. "Jim" helped the doctors and nurses, and when the doctors got sick he nursed them and the warden and his family and helped save a good many lives. After the epidemk: Ij1 .............. - I i .1 '. ,,i - srNiae good behavior. end finally got out. I met him In Cbleago. He was despondent He felt that be lead no ehanee to be anything but a crook. but he knew the terrible chances a once convicted man runs if be return.; to crime. I told him the best thing for him to do was to go to New York. and I sent him on to my brother Robert, who bad also known him oy a , .... -- - It' I 1 0 k'N21 N pollee'sis, asked hiss ,,,,;,' " Ilse hotel east poke to ItAlt. "Itoall yam Lao that yea see sertowasted J'-- de ,4 "if 0r ,1 ttwige, I V - 1 , t, kt. : -- ,,,.. ',,i tk: tie ''''; P' 4 ,K z.,31 ,,,,,z" ii'll- I -- , 04 oek-tal- li I) Si .11-"rteortini 3 I "Asa so tan at eettee Wriest. Tbses wee IS booted ea for IW egetti&C sad Isartreds if pollee e from every part of Use tatted States were there. I weadered LI ha tatty what beet if Uwe or, was walking lass $avo omega. bo MOM baba or 11115,, tkl 1.7.7..-- - I 64r& ,,,z 11 L ; t' 417$ l 4';f7 , - 17,,,---'4,,- 4 63 be was - 111 I 4 , 4 -- I .... ktko 111 are good menas good men as any living. They have turned away from their old ways. in many cases have changed their names, and who shall say they are not as much to be respected as the honest man who never was tempted, never was forced Into crime? Ill tell you about some of them. "When I was a boy in Chicago there were two brothers, neighbors, about the age of myself and my younger brother, and we were friends. When the civil war broke out I went into the army secret service at the age of fifteen, and the older of these two boys, John, enlisted in an Illinois regiment. Jerry, the younger, was not old enough, but a little later, when the government began offering a bounty for soldiers, he became a bounty jumper. He would enlist, get the bounty money. then desert and enlist over again under another name. He was with a band of young fellows who were engaged in that way of getting easy money, and who found it so easy that they turned to other kinds of crime. 'When the war was over John came back to Chicago and settled down as a rather plodding sort of He tried to get Jerry to straighten out, wed:mule. but the younger brother was too far along on the road tz t, i I i i Ns honest life. imprisonment at hard labor tbe former crook may ti.ov given In expiation of his sin. -- I know men In trusted positions In New York who were convicts. In many cases only the man himself and his employer know the secret, and sometimes the employer does not know it. I know men scattered all over the Westbusiness men, professional men, many of them wealthy and prominent citizens who have seen the inside of Joliet, Moyamensing. Sing Sing or Leavenworth. They hare sons and daughters' who never bare suspected and never will suspect the i .....,, .e.- ,- 94, . )9 '' . 400. v a real bank president "I know a score of business men in Chicagonot saloonkeepers. but reputable merchantswho have criminal records. These men have done time and have paid their debt to society for their crimes. I cannot tell you their names. for it would be unfair to them and to their wives and families. many of whom have no suspicion that there is anything wrong in tho pasts of their husbands and fathers. Besides, when society discovers that a man is a former criminal It is not content to cancel the debt. no matter bow much I a .1 "No-- " tell you another thing." continued Mr. "And "Pm prouder of the fact that I have helped Pinkerton; to beeome honest men than of all the criminals few work I hale done In putting criminals behind the bars. I'm proud of the fact that every crook knows that Pinkerton will deal squarely win him if he will deal squarely with Pinkertonthat I believe it is as as with a Important to keep faith with a bank thief i ,- -- I 1 -- thInksthat I , ,1110 I mt "I know what the aversze men .,, ,.:?, I. Me ..) , I i .e. e Mr. William A. Pinkerton I w - -- 111":411"L . I Hid i --- , I 1I i: II I I 11 1I itt i 1 nrilVr toodwitilnd the time honored -a thief." But I a thief. sieve's te the effort of Ow" Per my Convoluted. was stionpoiotedstresotbly earnest sails,' was a eukt. emphatic. WtHarst A. Asd the tuts silo said "Yes" was trios. sod he knos lutintate dePrebably es living man Loewe wort of the undermembers Must tsrs about lb. Indis criminals today. as weff thoee oho are active the bead of then the past ae tbe notorious crool.s of tad every cruel& the Pinkerton Detective Apekey. knows Mr. roan who tell yen. abet every boots' virile he says "Yes" Pinkerton will tea you. that should aaswer correct the Cuero is no pessibility thet be of Cases. According to a Thief. Always a Thief." Has Beat Disproved in rhcusands 0 Va !leans of Real Life," r molly. "He was wearing a new derby hat. I don't know what impulse prompted me, but I took the hat ot his bead and looked inside. It bore tbe mark of a New Orleans hatter. "The Chief and I left the station and had Just turned into Sixth avenue when Il remembered the old fellow's name. We went back to the station bone and I confronted him again. I told Wm Is name. He denied that it was his. " 'What's the use of making trouble, Air. Pieter. ton? be pleaded. Ms Inadvertent use of my semi which bad not been mentioned there, gave hint away. "'I don't know what kind of a ease the polka bore have on you,' told Mm. 'but we are retained by the Jewellers' Protective Association, and if you get after make it hot for you.' Anti any jewelry drummers as a precaution I got his photograpa from the New him York police. They didn't have much of z. case cin I and be got off. "Not long after a jewelry drummer was robbed is a Chicago hotel of about three thousand dollsair worth of diamonds which be bad carelessly left in his iu the .afe. The same grip Instead of putting themwas stopping In another day a friend of intue who aud told me about It I hotel lost his flew overcoat the first job, au4 found a thought of the old man . viseerieeemy nonyde itushe.he ecitbaboleauosenira.rtbebibcruedluestba,daidsolddu:ilaetldvrf'eaurbesuslinittm:eil'uttY.enwhw41111:Ntihwtylaini(fthigriend bad to leave for New York that night and some time In the evenwhich had been filed In ing I got a telegram trout him . Fort Wayne. "'Positive man who got my coat Is in same sleeper, ticketed to New York, it read. Ii wired my friend at a point farther along the line to get off at Pittsburg and bold a white handkerchief in his band so be could be identified and be prepared to point out the thief. Then I yot In touch with Pittsburg by wire, sod sure enough back came a wire after a whne to the effect that they bad got the man. whom my friend identified. and found on him besides the overcoat about VOW worth of diamonds. I asked for a de. scriptlen. and the one they wired fitted that of the man 1 had seen in New York. I referred Pittsburg to the man's photograph, which bad been published that week in a police periodical, and they were sure they had the same wan. And so it prtsed. He was brought back to Chicago and tomitted of the jewelry theft. He served a short sentence and when be , got out he came to me. "Mind you, this was an old man, who had been a thief all his life- -4 had known him flea thief more than thirty years before. It is criminals of that kind that are commonly regarded as the meet difficult te reform. but even hardened and lifelong offenders like this wan will go straight If they get the right kind of encouragement 1 found this old wan apparently anxious to be honest but be had never bad a chance after his first slip us a young man. 1 determined te do what 1 could for him and I got him a job in New York. He is more than seventy years old now, but he is still holding that job, and be hasn't made a false step since be got out of prison the last time. -' "Do criminals ever eforar? 1 think 1 have told IOU enough to prove that they doand I could tell you of hundreds of other Uastancee 11 yolN needed aux , 140 Ak A 4- .', g, 4 tweet, . - , t i4 i1 .4 .1 0 - '' '4.:; 1 ',N 41... l' t e,.-- , Ir'1,' , "forth, - - |