Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . ability, zeal, fear-lessness and unflagging devotion to duty of our brother officersin the police service and to the admirable administration of theboards of direction of our police throughout the country. What we have written is the product of many years of actualservice on the police force of Boston in various capacities, dur- PREFACE. ix ing which we have been brought into intimate personal contactwith the range of criminals whom we have depicted. To ourp
Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . ability, zeal, fear-lessness and unflagging devotion to duty of our brother officersin the police service and to the admirable administration of theboards of direction of our police throughout the country. What we have written is the product of many years of actualservice on the police force of Boston in various capacities, dur- PREFACE. ix ing which we have been brought into intimate personal contactwith the range of criminals whom we have depicted. To ourpersonal experience we have been enabled to add also the co-operation of friends, expert in the police service, and the com-prehensive official records of the police departments of thisand other countries. Supplementing these official sources ofinformation we have also a personal collection of memorandatouching crimes and criminals, which we have been making formany years for the purpose of reference and collection we have now found of much value in preparingthe work which we have entitled, Our Rival, The CONTENTS, CHAPTER L THE SWINDLING BEGGAR I A master in tricks of disguise—Tramps unions—Methodsof recruiting—The 7;iantfaci7(re of cripples—The dailylife of a tramp—A convenient mask for a burglar—How toprovide for 7>iendicants and vagabonds. CHAPTER IL BY SLEIGHT OF HAND . 15 The pickpocket and his methods—77?^ amateur and profes-sional—Favorite haunts of the pickpocket—Representativerogues—How to guard against thetn—The shoplifter—Guard-ing stores in the shoppifig districts—The cloak of kleptomania—??Morning hoisters and -Penny-weight thieves—Repre-sentative shoplifters and their methods—Safeguards againsttheir operations. CHAPTER III. FROM JIMMIES TO DYNAMITE 35 Bank burglars, old-fashioned and modern—Their tools—Evolution in burglary—Selection of a mark —Famous bankrobberies— Max Shinburn and other fo
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