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Show B PASTOR I TURNS BURGLAR Applies Religious Teachings to Crime, He Tells Police Bl GENE OOHN SAN .luSE. Calif.. Jan. 27. In the complex personality of the Rev. Max Hascall have lived for some years both a preacher and a burglar But the .wpiritual life came first w.is rooted at the cradle by a clerKy-rnan clerKy-rnan rather, And so, though he has followed a life of crime for eiKht years according to his own admissions, admis-sions, Haseall declares he applied 8 self-creatoc religious code to bis operutlons. Haseall is now In iail here awaiting await-ing trial. While playing the crook In man Quarters of the globe he has. at the same time. sought to retain his scholarly training to broaden his philosophy and follow alj new theological theo-logical movements. As to his career of "high principled prin-cipled crime, Iascal recites. "I have never perpetrated a stick-up stick-up job I have never used a gun 1 avoided hold-ups, because they involved in-volved guns, and because women and children mlUi' als,, l invulv,.l I have had scores of chances to make much money from working confidence con-fidence schemes on women but have always refused to take such an un-Ifatr un-Ifatr advantage I am a firm believer I In the righteousness of women and Children. ) have played a game of wits with men and have selected for robbery such pl.ice as could afford to lose. Yes, I havo been a world-1 roving criminal, 1 have been in London. Lon-don. Paris, Liverpool and Australia, but I don't know but that I welcome Jail as a chance to stud " HascaM had occupied the pulpit for seven years Grief over death of his family led him away from tie-church, tie-church, ho says. -Oft |