| Show crim criminal inal tells of career under the title the confessions of a criminal dick lane who he bad had for many years been known to the police forces of the united states east and west has related much of bla his ex la in crooked work covering a period of about fifty years in his hl time lane has served sixteen years in prison and been party to thefts las as bo he sas in the preface of nia nis book amounting to over for nino nine ears he bas has resided in chicago 1113 avade up ki his mind finally that graft craft games do not pay resolved to support himself honestly experience I 1 rc religion ligion and got the assistance of severa prominent men who kew kaew k ew him years before ard finally se ared employment in this ho he has bein repeatedly promoted lane gives ives much of his spare time to rescue work speaking in prisons on an street corners in churches or an anywhere where else that bo be may tell the story of bis his life and nation mation pol ce records bold lanea lanes career to bavo have been unique in criminal annals ho lie never specialized caled but wai an expert in almost every branch of theft know a to professionals his ills book which covers ninety six pages covers his life from his t tell ell a year when in philadelphia he committed his first crimo crime as a burglar securing a larg amount of money with anis he drifted amborg operators and gamblers in new york in 1872 according to these confessions lane as engaged in the robbery of the first national back bark of council r curfs iowa loa securing curing Be about with ith chich v aich to le and his two as associates opiates in tho job got away safely in another job in winona BI nn I 1 nee ace relates toe we killing of a victim held up by two of his pals although lane himself mati as near by at the time it was a narrow escape from prison for ba him tho the others ultimately getting life een sen bences in stillwater lare also relates his jail breaking experiences in elkhart Elk bart ind tells hov ho v be tie started a pal on bis his political road read to congress how he escaped from the army after getting COO COD bounty noncy noney and other thrilling experience experiences la in tile lie west and northwest lanes last chapter Is devoted to ft a single landed job in which be he stole worth of silks from a madison wis merchant for this hu bu finally finally got five eye years in the waupun prison |
