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Show RECORD CF CRIMINAL LIVES Eook Which Would Be Condemned 'Today Read by Men and Women a Few Ceneritions Ago. ... , One of the scarce book which has to be sold at an approaching auction sale in this c'ty bciir.t this fiiKiiiiat-Ing fiiKiiiiat-Ing title: The Lives of tl) Most He-msrkable He-msrkable Criminals Who Have I'een Cotn'i niiicd and I'xi cut d, for M;i'ler, lli!;h-.i ny. Moiise-Hreak' r, Street Itob b-ries. Coining or Other orfciises:. from IT'.'il to th Present Time" The '"prtaei.it time" nferr,1 to In Mils title ti-tle whs only the year l"::r. m that the whole period covered by tlnfe thiilling anil numerous crltnltint I!v-s was only 15 yearn If must hsiv been a great time for criiiiin.ils. for between tho rovir of Hie bw.k are the stories of Jack Hhet.turd. Ket liedy the I'lrate Jonathan Wild. Mrs ".rlf fin. Kdward Hurnsworth. William fiar-wick fiar-wick and several o'lur quite cele-bratrd cele-bratrd crlnilcals Cheer up! Thoso wer worse fines t'n'tv ours for criminality crim-inality and those v -n the days, loo. when men and won., u were h.Higid for burglary, counterfeiting, sheep stealing, and even pr.hr.hlng and smug U'lng , An odJ thing about that time, too, ! was that hundreds of books were printed print-ed which contained full and harrowing harrow-ing detail of murder and robbery. Mid that almost everybod". Including clergymen and delicate Imlii s. read these books cngerly as ;t.t u they came out. The oldest public libraries Ir New Knrlntul contain. In the book collections which were spread before U'ft youth of the cotiimuuit) . many aiK-h criminal lives - New York Mail |