Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . JAMES HOPE. JOHN Y-mi:- pHV DAVID EDWAUD LYONS. FBOiU JIMMIES TO DYNAMITE. cc tion of being the chief counsellor, broker and fence in GreatBritain for American burglars and thieves. In October, 1892,this artful dodger was- arrested in an attempt to steala lot of valuable bonds at a railway station in Liege. He wasconvicted for this attempted robbery and shut up in a Bel-gian prison for-seven years. While in prison he made a sen-sational rev
Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . JAMES HOPE. JOHN Y-mi:- pHV DAVID EDWAUD LYONS. FBOiU JIMMIES TO DYNAMITE. cc tion of being the chief counsellor, broker and fence in GreatBritain for American burglars and thieves. In October, 1892,this artful dodger was- arrested in an attempt to steala lot of valuable bonds at a railway station in Liege. He wasconvicted for this attempted robbery and shut up in a Bel-gian prison for-seven years. While in prison he made a sen-sational revelation of his possession of the famous picture ofthe Duchess of Gainsborough, which was sold at auction atChristies, in 1876, for £10,100 and, eighteen days later, cut fromits frame in the exhibition gallery of its purchaser, a leadingpicture dealer of London. Our second page of representative portraits depicts fourburglars of equally unenviable distinction. Jimmy Hope wasperhaps the most notorious of his class in America, begin-ning his known career of crime in the year 1870 by the at-tempted robbery of Smiths bank at Perry, New York, andrunning up the
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