| Show THE HOLDUP HOLD UP INDUSTRY GOES ON those gentlemen of undisturbed leisure who hibernate somewhere in daylight and prowl about the streets street at night in search of unarmed or timid victims ought to be governed by some considerations of propriety it is said mid that there is honor among thieves and chig may be true of a certain class clam but not of all ali those who hold up an inoffensive boy and because he has haa n money or valuables proceed to break open his bis bead with a weapon CAU can scarcely be said to have either honor courage or decency and take those thos away what remains of the calling claude duval dick turpi a and some of their more modern imitators at times invested the business with a dash of bravado or a spurt of gallanty which ed the public mind toward them somewhat ome what but of the wretched yet yei pollos police proof miscreants who prowl about our streets in the darkness and all of whose assaults are cowardly in the extreme there is ia nothing extenuating to be said allgood all good people would hall with satisfaction if not with joy the announcement that a summary example had been made of one or more of the infamous gang and surely this cannot be much longer deferred the law abiding element here la Is yet in th the majority majori tj and Is ia not forgetful it if it to la neglectful ot of its power and its rights if it has ban to act alone it will do so eo and then let the thugs |
