Show Intensive Study of the Criminal He Is Being Analyzed in Psychological Laboratory for Indexing The psychology of tho the criminal Is being beIng being be be- ing studied more Intensely today than ever before The criminal Is being analyzed analyzed annI ana ann I zed from every possible angle with a aview aview aview view to correcting his habits or findIng finding finding find find- ing out something new about him and psychology has enabled us to classify and Index him In a manner not dreamed of ot a few fow years ago It has hOB been found for example that the age and ph physical strength of ot criminals may be bo studied with profit since they are often determining factors In the particular crimes In which they It has been pointed out said a veteran detective that at least 00 per cent of the bo hold up dup men who have been at work vork In all of our largo large cities are mere youths Many of ot t them em are are little more than beardless boys and It ItIs itIs itis Is rare to find one over thirty Youth Is eternally reckless and Is prone to tox tnt tk hn h t hn h t f t hl hi t ehi 0 e- e x Lane s e c CO ance s Ula a I. I e u man o U vi ry t w- w In the ways of ot the world would deliberate a long time before taking What Is true of at the up hold-up man Is true of most criminals A visit to the city's police stations when the tho nightly catch of the police net Is casting out Its victims will convince anyone that the majority of our criminals are extremely extremely extremely ex ex- ex- ex young men and If further proof Is needed It Is only necessary to turn backward the pages of any pollee police po po- lice lico blotter In shooting and stabbing affrays and crimes of ot especial violence the heedless thoughtless youth Is always always al ai- ways foremost He Is la a victim of ImpUlse Impulse impulse Im Im- pulse and passion pitifully lacking In elf control Two of Burglars Take another example the burglar clan 1 s Th n. n y 1 i t u o LUC j ore C U are C many su v s ono but roughly burglars may be divided Into two classes The daring fellow who Jimmies his way Into an apartment apartment apartment apart apart- ment and the petty sneak thief who Is what his name nome a implies Implies a cowardly wretch who enters a place on some pretext pretest or only when he finds a door open and no one at home Twenty years ago the bolder type of a burglar known as a Dutch houseman was often a man of thirty thirty- five or more today he Is almost exclusively ex ex- exclusively a young man Burglary Is Ismore ismore ismore more difficult today than It was a quarter of a n century ago This Is because because because be be- cause modern Inventions have made madea a mans man's castle more difficult to break Into We Ye have proof burglar-proof locks and window catches and the like and hidden hidden hidden hid hid- den burglar alarms as well and the burglar who has hns the temerity to enter such a stronghold must needs be robust robust robust ro ro- ro- ro bust and athletic He must be a fellow fellow fellow fel fel- fel- fel low who Is as agile as ns a monkey on fire escape or coping as he frequently has hns to depend on his strength and speed In order to get away safely If It surprised Hence Bence only a youth In the prime of ot ph physical condition ventures Into such a hazardous calling today fo A IA few years a ago o a certain so-called so gentleman burglar burglar- gave the tho police a amerry amerry amerry merry time of ot It before he was finally captured and sent away for a n long term of years ears This fellow performed perform d feats that appeared superhuman Ho He could climb along the narrowest sort of ot apartment house coping and ond could leap successfully across a wide chasm from one roof to another When wo we finally corralled him we learned ho he was a trained athlete and kept himself In Inthe Inthe inthe the pink of condition by visiting a gymnasium gymnasium gym gym- dally daily The IThe parallel might be extended further further further fur fur- ther to show that criminals are more or less guided by temperament age and strength In their pursuits When a housebreaker feels his Joints getting getting getting get get- ting stiff and his arms getting soft he I realizes s be he Is no longer a able le to follow tollow I successfully the undertakings he ho used to accomplish without much effort and he either gives up crime for good or follows a criminal pursuit more In keeping with his years Once Once a criminal always a crimi crImi- nal Is a harsh saying It is L well known n that some somo men have been drawn Into crime by some accident of ot fortune Many such I do not doubt having been caught and punished have reformed reformed re rev formed lived down the past and become become become be be- come useful citizens But nut I am discussing dIscussing discussing dis dIs- cussing the criminals who have not seen the handwriting on the wall and mended their ways These men have bec become me petty criminals In ono way another Some Borne have become or professional professIonal pro pro- mendicants others have bave found berths In underworld dives and still others have become messengers for younger thieves schooling them In the tricks and artifices of their trade All AIl of them are mixed up In shady pursuits pursuits pur pur- ur- ur suits of some kind If It It t Is true that criminals of sixty or more seldom fall tall Into the tolls toils of ot the police pollee It Is equally true that criminals criminals criminals crimi crimi- nals have no age limit Now and then you hear henr of ot a patriarch being arraigned arraigned ar ar- 1 In one of the courts Recently Recent Recent- ly a venerable well well dressed dressed man who Is seventy-five seventy years of ot age was arrested arrested arrested ar ar- rested for forgery He has been a forger since he was a young man His plan was to saunter Into a store select something and when he was about to pay for tor It discover he had absently left his pocketbook at home He Be would write a check for a dollar lollar dol lol- lol lar or more than the tho article called for pleading he ho needed carfare Eventually Eventually Eventually Event Event- he tripped himself up by laying down too many checks In the tho same samo city |