The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 15, 1919, Page 2, Image 2
NO PROFIT
Human Experience
of Theft Pays One 1\
amples of Mott H
Whitman, Elk
(New York Sun.)
Young men and young women just
from college and looking about for
opportunities should firmly reject all j
suggestions or inducements to take
up crime as a career. Moral con-i
siderations aside, there is nothing,
absolutely nothing, which would
justify such a choice. True friends
would never think of recommending
it.
No matter how assiduously, intel
ligently and drastically the business [
of violently or furtively acquiring
one's neighbor's goods may be pur-1
sued, the business leads to squalid I
misery in the end. As a life work it
simply doesn't pay, particularly for
those that go into it in a small way.
Moreover, crime is becoming increasingly
disreputable. It is a bad game
financially and it offers no social rewards
worthy of the name.
There are many men and some women
in New York who have followed
the trade for years?some of them,
indeed, for a span of 50 years. Today,
such of them as have not sunk
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completely out of ??ight ?f the morasses
of the underworld are objects
of pity even to the police. They have
become shambling mendicants, old,
broken, utterly penniless, wholly dev
pendent on begging. They live like
toads in some dark hole, their only
solace in the twilight of life being
.
such rum or such drugs as they can
beg or steal. Most of their active
years have been spent in practicing
the lock step. They will appear before
Peter at the gate dragging their
left feet. Their immortal souls will
; V,
spring from unconsidered clay thrown
! into a potter's field hole. At the
hour of their death many of them
will be cursed by recollections of
evil gains tossed away and by regrets
such as come eventually to hu
man beings tnat stray at ue uusa
roads.
Poor Business.
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t As a plain matter of human expert
rience there is no degree of theft
which will pay one mill on the dollar.
Take religion out of the discussion
entirely. Put aside all contemplation
of the Ten Commandments
and the moral law. Forget the Golden
Rule and the ethical guide. Consider
crime solely as a business prop03tion.
Weigh the experience of notorious
criminals that have made a
stir in the world because of their
\ boldness or shrewdness. The result
simply affronts intelligence. There is
nothing in it but shame, dirt, loneliness,
contempt and an unmarked
grave. There is not one commercial
criminal, that is to say a thief who
steals by guile or strength with the
sole idea of getting money without
work and who cherishes no special
malice toward humankind, in a thousand
that ever enjoys in his closing
years any sort of prosperity, and
shade of the tranquility that old age
requires. In this there is observed
the operation of an immutable law ot
psychology. Not only are material
gains impossible to hold, but the
brain itself is so charged by the
hysteria of the trade that the calmness
essential for happiness is for
ever destroyed.
Ask old Mott Haven Red, one of
the most daring and expert burglars
the police ever sought. Ask Ellen
Peck, queen of the confidence women,
who lured $1,000,000 from the
t purses of too trustful men and who is
broke at the age of 90. Ask Monk
Eastman, perhaps the most dangerous
gang leader in New York's history
before he went into the army,
won the distinguished service cross
and earned the respect of all his
comrades in arms. Ask Alonzo Whitman,
once a State senator in Minnesota,
later a wizard at forgery and
recently a bum on the Bowery. Ask
John Dowd, probably the last of the
old Whyo gang, who is now a nickel
grafter after 30 years of dishonest
plotting. Ask Pat Gallagher, "swell
tin tapper" and now a cadger in East
Side gin mills. Ask Jimmy Farrell,
clever forger and counterfeiter for
30 years, but now down and out.
Ask a hundred such, and you would
get one answer: "There's nothing in
it."
Living Example.
Their testimony is more important
than that presented by the police, for
they are living examples of the futility
of theft. Their whole lives are
shocking illustrations of the fact that
of all the ways of wasting time crime
is the least profitable and the most
ruinous. There may be some methods
of squandering the years by which
men and women can get a fairly even
trade with the devil, either mentally
or physically, but in the crime trade
Sir Satan takes principal and inter
" IN CRIME
ows That No Degree
Till on Dollar?ExaVen
Red, Alonzo
m Peck, et Qlest
and then most usuriously seizes
the body and soul. There are no exceptions
to it. It is of no consequence
to point out that here and
there in the world are men who drive
about in costly motor cars, live in
mansions and rent pews in churches
who made their fortunes evilly. But
what goes on inside these men? Who
knows what blackmail they pay?
Who can guess their secret humilia
tions? Who can estimate their fear
of the hereafter? And every so
often one of these rotten trees falls
with a crash and throws up a dust in
the world.
At police headquarters there is an
angled room approached through a
wicket of steel. It is a graveyard of
human lives. The careers of men and
women are to be found there, all
tucked away neatly in steel boxes,
like bodies in coffins. It is a mausot
leum of fallen humanity; a vault
wherein the dead souls of living persons
are already buried. Novelists
would do well to enter this vault and
read the inscriptions. There is nothing
On the dark sides of life which
may not be found there. This room
is officially entitled "The Bureau of
Criminal Identification." Therefore
it is a morgue, in which may be
identified the personality of individuals
with aliases as scars, prison sentences
as distinguishing marks. It
is not a cheerful place, though there
are few rooms more interesting. In
addition to being a morgue it is a
laboratory for the study of crime.
There are people who visit it regularly
to perfect their knowledge of
how best to protect society from marauders.
None know better than
these students that 'crime offers no
reward. It is Jime thrown away,
lives squandered !to no end.
Alonzo Whitman's Record.
One of the steel boxes containing
dead souls is marked with the name
"Alonzo J. Whitman." Here was?
is?an individual who schemed foi
f
a generation to make crime pay
equipped as he was with about everj
physical and mental asset necessarj
to the trade. Tall, handsome, schol|arly
looking, splendidly educated, he
worked at forgery for 20 years. Nol
so long ago he was sitting upon the
curb at Canal street and the Bow
j ery regarding the toes of his righl
I foot protruding through the ruins o
I a shoe. A little later a judge in Cin
cinnati was giving him two years ii
the penitentiary. There is scarcely ?
better example of the utter foolish
ness of crime than Whitman.
He is the son of a Minnesota mint
owner and lumber man who was ra
ted as a millionaire in the '70s
Young Whitman went to Hamiltoi
college and subsequently to the Co
lurabia University law school. No
one boy in 100 had as good a chancf
to wrest fortune honestly from fate
He went back to Minnesota, got incf
politics, was elected to the State sen
ate, served a term with some ability
ran for congress and was defeated
and then tried his hand in the whea
pit of Chicago. It won't do to sa:
that unlucky wheat speculation am
the wiles of opponents drove Whit
man into crime when his money wai
swept away, for there was somethinj
askew inside his head. His progresf
downward is interesting. Wiped ou
at the Chicago board of trade ii
1893, he became a bookmaker 01
Western and Eastern tracks and foi
a time did pretty well. He once be
$15,000 to win $1,000, making th<
wager with the late Davy Johnsoi
on the old Monmouth Park track
and won the bet, Pierre Lorillard';
mare Wanda just managing to ge
her pretty nose in front of tne tnoi
oughbred that imperilled Whitman's
$15,000. Eventually, within a yea:
or so, he had to quit as a bookmakei
because his money was gone and his
credit was no good.
What next? Plain forgery. H(
forged a check somewhere out Wes
and was convicted. When he came
out of prison he tried a little mor<
chirography. The outcome was tin
same. Year after year his name oc
curs in the record of arrests anc
convictions. At times his loot was
big and he wriggled out of the law's
grip, Lut in the long run there wer<
always manacles on his slendes
wrists and his feet were always head
ed for some State's penitentiary. The
last heard of him was that he was
serving a prison sentence in Ohio?
and he is more than 60, nearing tin
j end of his life without a dollar .anc
i sure to be harried by the police o:
i every city once he shows his face.
Notorious Ellen Peck,
j Did you ever hear of Ellen Peck'
In her day she was the most cele
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