Show THE CONVICT ALIBI students and reformers reform era have many times undertaken to find out the cause causes which make criminals of men it usel used often to happen that on a sunday afternoon when all tle con convicts victa of a penitentiary were gathered together and some good man mau made a speech to them that the alore aforesaid said good man struck an attitude and said suld to the convict i all those of 5 who owe your ine artera tion acre here to intoxicating liquor hold bold up your right hands 11 As a rule eve evet t hand went up and the reformer vaa gratified he ile thought intoxicating liquor was the came cause of all the trouble and then when the he answer came ho lie fet felt vindicated one need not be a close of hie his fellow men to learn narn that the man who goes wrong antver m ver blames him hi elf for it consequently wha the good raan loan suggested an alibi aery criminal was really and slid willing to accept it but such alibis cou cowardice Ardice peno petRoni nihed fied if it men would tell the inith truth they would w confess that the f for fr r their imprisonment rested upon the themselves melves there is a new turn now in the matter of alibi I 1 th aw enforcement committee of the american bar association recently held a clinic in the illinois nois penitentiary the committee was composed of such men as ex governor Goer nor whitman of new nev york judge marcus kavanagh Kavana gb of chicago and wade alln of washington D 0 each condict brought out and none but long tunia tuni 1 were considered was asked to state just why he lie was there in this case the convicts conic ts found folind woman their alibi if roen men vre pre in for stealing they that they stole for or a N woman one ine of them said girls are demand ing more fine clothes aril ard fun is their me life the sime s ime burglar said that environment t and association I 1 are to blar blame lie i if a man bas has a good home a good mother or wife he be rarely goes wrong 90 this last explanation ii an ad kitiona di dit tiona ional evidence of cowardice thousands of men with good homes and good mothers or good wives go wrong the they go wrong because they have not tle starlit stamina na to say bay no they go wrong because they are too lazy to work it is laziness that makes burglars jt 1 is the prevailing pre ailing spirit of the age to attempt to get so something methin g for nothing and burg burglary liry is in one of the result if reformer and writers would place the responsibility for crime on a the criminal and hold him re there might be a reduction of cime it is base meanness ine anness to blame woman with her natural sympathetic nature for the wrongdoings wrong doings of df men imen we occasionally hear hor of a bank cashier ier going wrong to supply luxuries for a beautiful beant wife if the same cashier hk hd i bee been n straight L 0 forward and had told his gais o 0 ful ul wife that he lie could not support her in her extravagance it if she were worthwhile ehe she would have changed her manner of living but ohp th cashier lacked the your age to face the music and to is abet the woman judge kavanagh haa has been trying criminals for twenty year years aw an he be knows why men go wro wrong ng be he knows that it represent the weakness of men and not the nesa of woman but nil all c convicts N evicts must have ao ini exAnna tiou 1 tai their inner salves and the world and as a result many mally an all honest student of orall ie is deceived but crial inala nals do not deceive william pinkerton and IV J T burns burnsi et ex cha r |