Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1914-07-31 | Page 7 | Three Ages of Crime

Three Ages of Crime. "There are three ages of criminals,' said Lecoq, the detective. "The first age, from seventeen to thirty, is the daring and desperate one. Highway robbery, bludgeoning? and hold-ups, murder for a few dollars this is the worst age, a cruel, wicked and supremely foolish age. "The second age, from thirty to for ty-five, is the cautious middle one. Burglaries that are safe and easy, forgery, for-gery, counterfeiting in a word, crimes demanding neither violence nor pluck that is the second age. "The third age. from forty-five to seventy, is the executive one. The criminal is now a gang leader. He does not act himself, but he plans and commands com-mands crimes of magnitude, train robberies, rob-beries, bank robberies, kidnapings and the like."