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Show TWO CROOKS SURRENDER j Burglar and Forger Call at Police Station and Confess Now York, Sept. 24. Police headquarters head-quarters here housed two prisoners this' morning, both or whom had dropped drop-ped In voluntarily during tho night to givo themselves up. although the detectives de-tectives had long since given up hopo of eor locating them. One was Rudolph Ru-dolph Masllng, wanted for forgery, the other waa Thomas Murphy, sought for a ?3i000 burglary in Yonkers. Masllng Is a man of 50, with military mili-tary hearing and expensively dressed. "I have come here to give myself up. ' he remarked casually to Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Fogarty, when he strolled up to the desk at headquarters. "I'm a forger and one with a long record, too. You have my criminal history here and my photograph and I know now it will" be my fourth conviction will mean a life sentence." He explained that he was wanted for stealing 51,000 from a manufacturing manufac-turing firm by means of a series of forgeries. "Last week." ho added, "I had a stroke of conscience that carried car-ried me off my feet. I would have taken my life bad I not been a coward. cow-ard. All forgers are cowards. "I don't know why 1 ever became a forger Forging has an irresistible i fascinntion for me. I simply can't help doing It when one of the flu conies up." Murphy, a much younger man, but just as trim and prosperous of appearance ap-pearance an .Masling, strolled into tho police station an hour or two after the self-confessed forger had been locked up. "I'm a burglar," he said, without a trace of emotion. "I just dropped in to ank you to take charge of me." He then explained that ho war, wanted for robbing the home of tbp liev. Paul Stratton. a Presbyterian minister of Yonkers, N. Y., on July 1. "I'm tired of this life," he declared, declar-ed, "and want to go to Sing Sing" oo |