. The criminal classes, causes and cures. he generally selected what is known asyellow-covered literature, blood and thunder stories,etc. His was a warm-hearted disposition, with a strongwill force. When about seventeen years of age, he determined toventure from home and tramp eastward. When near FortWayne, Indiana, he fell into company with an old gentle-man and a young man, who were also tramping. Thethree traveled together until they reached Stark County,Ohio, where the two young men, or boys, murdered theold gentleman while he was asleep, for his watch and somemoney. Ohr was arrested, foun
. The criminal classes, causes and cures. he generally selected what is known asyellow-covered literature, blood and thunder stories,etc. His was a warm-hearted disposition, with a strongwill force. When about seventeen years of age, he determined toventure from home and tramp eastward. When near FortWayne, Indiana, he fell into company with an old gentle-man and a young man, who were also tramping. Thethree traveled together until they reached Stark County,Ohio, where the two young men, or boys, murdered theold gentleman while he was asleep, for his watch and somemoney. Ohr was arrested, found guilty of murder in thefirst degree, and executed, June 25, 1880. It seems quiteconclusive that parental neglect, impure literature, andvicious com])auions were all responsible for this ruinedlife and forced death. Causes and Cures 47 XIII. One of Two. A Boy Murderer Pays the Peualty liy Hanging. The friendships of the world are oftConfederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure. —Addison,Uncertain ways unsafest are. —.Str J. GEORGE E. MANN. George E. Mann, the companion of Gustave A. Ohrin the nmrder of John Wattmaugh, near Canton, Ohio,and with whom he was hanged, June 25, 1880, was bornin New York, and was of English parentage. His mother 48 The Criminal Classes died when he was quite young, and Ms father soon re-married and removed to Kansas. At the age of fifteen3^ears, he started to tramp his way from Kansas to NewYork. He seems to have lacked moral courage, veracity,and will force. He might, however, have heen a very dif-ferent character and lived an upright life, but for the earlydeath of a mother, the indifference of a father, early evilassociations, and bad reading. Causes and Cures 49 XIV. One Step Leads to Another.
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