. The criminal classes, causes and cures. , takento New York, tried for piracy and murder, found guilty,and executed on Friday, April 28, 1831. 24 The Criminal Classes Historians write of him as follows: Biggs was one ofthose criminals who present nothing in life or conduct wecan admire. He was utterly without the sort of energythat enables a man to make a living by honest toil. Hehad not sufficient moral sentiment to keep him from thecommission of crime/ His entire nature seemed sat-urated with selfishness, and his groveling soul was fixedupon the low plane as that of a wolf or hyena. He didn
. The criminal classes, causes and cures. , takento New York, tried for piracy and murder, found guilty,and executed on Friday, April 28, 1831. 24 The Criminal Classes Historians write of him as follows: Biggs was one ofthose criminals who present nothing in life or conduct wecan admire. He was utterly without the sort of energythat enables a man to make a living by honest toil. Hehad not sufficient moral sentiment to keep him from thecommission of crime/ His entire nature seemed sat-urated with selfishness, and his groveling soul was fixedupon the low plane as that of a wolf or hyena. He didnot seem capable of reason or remorse. We may searchin vain to find the single virtue linked with a thousandcrimes that Byron offers in extenuation of the crimes ofhis corsairs. OBSERVATION. This record is, doubtless, chargeable— 1. To parental neglect and incompetency. 2. To early association with youthful criminals andparticipation in their crimes. 3. To habitual criminal indulgence and the cultivationof natural criminal A KIDNAPER. (25) Causes and Cures 27 VI. A KiDNAPEE, The illustration of a kidnaper represents the counte-nance of a woman who, in mad frenzy, Sullenly fierce—a mixture thunder-clouds of gloom and fire, stole an innocent child—a child not her own, but belong-ino- to another, against whom she and others held angryspite. She was soon angry, self-willed, and could stay upat night to hate those whom, for imaginary reasons, shedisliked. This disposition was doubtless the result of earlyenvironments and unfortunate associations. 28 llie Criminal Classes VII. A Family of Four Demoxs—The Benders. Wholesale Murder in Kansas—A Hotel Slaughter-House—ThePersonnel Of—A Spiritual Medium—A Free-lover—Escape. This family consisted of four persons—old John, hiswife, a son called John, and a daughter named came to this country from Germany when the lastnamed were quite young, and settled in Labette County,Kansas. Their hous
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