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C Je To the per JOTICE Byty M b your tie than what A traval dicincluded det ke f This posible p by for this end del hood by the mal, in fornofilt The Bulletin. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1 tgham, Burgas, and Pickpocke Te in ot so many years alaco the professional gentlemen whise designstions head this article were among the chief terrors and sccurs of society. The first class practically extect tow ader the style ind ttle of beshtangas they liogered in the Aue- tralist oolonles abcata generation after thote Tarojons predecessore had been obliterated. Burglars still spar In Intermittent and feeble survivals Pickpockets are not ex Tinet, but the fusid lasre of the past bo lorger illaninatos them. Thele nyatery la no mere s fiae art. Compared with the Old Maters they are botehere. The sexdenle institutions where yrs graaisel the indis tory touches exlat not. The modern plek- porkat is a more amatour, his best effort the temale of caisal opportunity and trailent spiration. The deavlence of these three almashish render renerable by an gaty, has been rupid and obviour. Tilau wit perpose to moralise Intimately in the superficial rooms to which this decadence is attribuable. It will sue to mention the alteration in the habits of the people with respect to mrrenty. No one, no elses, now habitualy carries or keeps much ecin or everitis paper. Ball up millindre, or pick Ma pocket, and in liea of a pare of gold, personal the provision Sur a week's expenditure, all the plus der will be half- and less than twnty all a doran winteote, the Suash Into the house , se of Ne regte of talent lings worth of silver, besides a watch. Brak into the beare of a mlser and rem- mage has strong bone and regin will be blank of the catentationly rich, a few hundreds werth of plate, often the spadove producti of the plating-battery, will be the speil : and there is no established amelting pot in costant operation to receive days of you. The game & net worth the candle The gifted among crooks are reorgnlied the changed conditions. nowokes himself to the rade, to the borgling business or to the picking of pockets. Bat rogues are not extinet. the criminal are not drawn. Robbery has merely changed its character to wait the altered times From a physical secapadon plandering has been metamorphosed into an intellectual pursult. The pickpocket, ha dereleped into the contdeco 20" banko steerer. The burglar Esa consed to break into tanks be rase s tank him how The teeth of OF mil. The highwayman has losrned erada a ayatim was first which involved the risk of rope or bullet. He so longer delies the law. He makes it sum of als weapons whanavar ha ex and only violates it when extremely premod or empted. Men o of predatory instinca and rate courage make their opeos Chegt, and salce thotr channs of prearestions for fake pretences, forgeries, and fraudulons Isaolrencies. The language of the beaths and she blug's high- waye hat descended to the bold adventurer of the ayndicate and time targato order. Like the dishing knights of the road, there strorg tarted adventure of the navelal world proclaim that they will greatly dare, even though they terribly fall Hitharaman er amore, the old motto of the highwayman, is the motto te-day of the sperulator. The ead junifin the means sow as erstwhile. CLASE DEVAL, Busconful, stere Palla ment and makes his taster-stroke in colls- con with a syndicate operating outside. He las tor collague in the Legislature the Hon. Bos JONATHAN foll his schemes follen, who is equally ready to and hand him over to jus sce, or to partielpate and share the plader, sonording on ether courie appens to all his particular interest. Mr. Fauty, a runs mary-abop which an au-squamish acclaty Nowe en tots a alowe bien to terms "back anal plunders people with infinely greator of old and 2 intoh usore conaldersble reale that of ruas to BILL BIKE keops a racing stable and run BMW winbenft watts him. He lanet sash & fol as to murder NAY. He passes socession of NANCY through the stie saburhan vills, so when they sore him he almpy ara then sdrift to fost about the streets and be warded at the Magdalen Asylum or the Iging-lx Honglin The wite of the criminal clam are too quick for the law. The rogues and plas deron invant new dedges crery day, and panting legislation tells after them in rais. They elade even the penalties of an adrene puble option. In Baccu's AK-OL Dooan, the corruption of sels Heas during the period of the later years of JAXES The Imaginary Lerns I., In follettously illustrated narrator s rented referring with a sort of relortast pride to his brother-in-law, a notorious high- wayman, whose daring exploits have res dered him a person of wuch ocnalleestion In in the constry-alde. So, at the present tims, the general deference conseded to the sous- essaal rogue Inditeen persons connected with him rather to vaunt their lie than to de precate the practions which have maruel for su notoriety. Oar forefathers and asarely bring themselves to regand with an- qualed harshner a knight of the road who coonslutally shared with the distrol the contents of a ravishod purse. Stallsely, the modern citison refers with a certain bated copsare only to a soterionsly shary dealer who mabantbos freely to public charities, ensa epas house, or improves the breed of race- borass. & tow months ago one of the Supreme Court judges in New Senth Wales, in giving judgment respecting a commercial transaction brought by afvil process before Miest, eorerly seimadverted on the proceedlegs of one of the parties-a leidtrg commerelaims-and expressed a hope that community 1 d sot masy budnos mon is the were capable of similar chloanery. Yet the persona so scarified mailared no seaths. They bold their heade se high on Chonge di the streste as though their rapetadion had been ambjected to no taint. No man dent the loss with them, or bated one joo of the deferonso someded to their wealth and In- fence, An attorney esat out of the peo fassion for malpesetices may be dally seen ba faaliar and webarrassed common with 1 clicans of leading station in political and commercial affairs. Even the deadly sin of being found out" exposes the sinner to po selal panalty, peorded he wanager wriggle alor of sotul imprisonment or Irre- parable financial colispas to
The corporated footpad has for or broker of In Heu of bands of robbem we liste syndicates. Gangs of thieres hare for sub- etuien comples of rich men by Act of Commell." sacosscr the "general agent the street corcer, ever cn the alert to do your beatncos fce you" Your pookat in mors nestly picked by the Ingenious gentis- man who volunteers to put you on to a good thing," than by the hyagone 5 who snipped your wachshain or whaked your pocket-book out of its recepacle. The res: heroes of the road and latier day rivale with norve as steady in the grast finannhal perstom who cruste banking credit of a thousands with forged securities or the mis appropriated dools of ellents, and trust to Jak to make a profit with the proceeds of their secre: felony, 31 party B proofs before sarity or the fraud, New at That draw the and so be able to with prentation shall epse me and again all shifts fail and the hand of d justion clutches the collar of the rogue. The se sien amidst the mixed word the mahitule in which the sound of the com- miseration of sympathetto spirits mines vill and often seems to prevall over the maledictions of the uncompromised. often the baulked villain compromiss his teleny, sal by pacial surrender of Mis plander, or an equivalant from his other escuror, or she hoards of his sonlatos or frleads, is never brought to openshame at all. Yat even ahamoo has lost its cutting edge. dit is not regarded hacsefel to commit sete diagracetal in their emene, provided they be of general commission and done in good a company. It fa not shameful for a barrister la to take a bribe to save any scoundrel fren 12 the consequences of his erimes, although in parfactly envinced of the gult of his cle (nov, ve may is parenthesis mark h shameful for a barrister to steal his client's mosey by pueksting a fe given for work 4 + T . which he knows he can never perform.) attened by le A beibe in awch tratances eursies euphemists, and termed Werosumallat to accept masy for the asm purpost it would he accounted a co slalous proceeding, although the function of journalist in closely analogous to that of a ploader. I la not regarded sa disgraceful T to plunder the public by Erestalling thems on the strength of information proured by the advantage of a represen atire stslot in the purchase to ba an ancol la value by expenditure of publie of proto moneja. It is diarrasefel la theory Indood, but the pretice involves to loss of social cocaleron. A del Parlament wristely be indicated who are known to have risen from poverty to in- la- dependence or foonca be this form of ob And only one or two has suffered perceptibly in publle estimation in con secucaco, while even of these there are individuals opon whom their tecito opr toa tarns the fourtain of public heaosra. A few yean sgo a barefaced Jespoil and demorallee the larwading menity ly isangurating a stupendous utry for land, in shares or chances which sggre gated immersely In access of the real value be andertaldog to com incoming Sated, was projected, and with dificulty failed by the naselations of this journal. dselamations and de- The promoters of this shamelem jeb lost no perceptible et of social ce commercial status thoreby. of the world. Ragnety is no lom ampact today than it was a generation ago. Pandering is no less the regular coccpailon of the hard " The robber of today is M active as his prototype of the Kightonath Cestury, and fatinitely mors secofal and more dangerna A keen wit is a sharper wespon tina awed & clever combination of schemera la mors afective than a twilight ambosh of thleves There is more to be won by forestalling wharf-purchase, work Inga nompensstion-for-rosmaraton plot, or nobbling a tramway than by waylaying a farmer ser market or "atles ing up" geld & eset, and thiru is not a fraction of the danger. The attention of the puble ro quires arvosing to the existence of the pre- Latery explelta walck proceed areey day, and directing to the changed form which these have latterly savamed While people, nos ta air, gaps for crimes of violist appro prition, and gerealving nona, Imight that the age of plandering is past, they are being robbel on a vaster acale than ever and with infinitely more sdraithen. Ook attendin becomes concentrated in the proper di tion the remedy will begin to mature. The lava, povere in lava, so severe in their satiquated and com paratirely wensed provision for the proven- tion and penishment of styles of crimes almost satinat, will be remlelled to ope while wbl the modern developments of the pre- datory clansen. Swindlers of all variedden will engage more attention. Their habita, arts, and devices will be eotalderal and clamifed. Prolalon will be made for track- Ing them through all their tortorus windings, and for singing te overy form of modern plendarteg a sppropriate punishment. Society could well afford to wipe out of the atste books all concimis agakur highwaymen, barglam, and arendata of chattels were there but sabadtuted a search- Ing and comprehenstre coce dealing with crimes of Ingeniets mud. It would be an nors galner vers the latter ooda bat effectal, In respect of property saved to its honest pas Is taken se plunder at the present the first-named chas of crfunes, there are theasands flabad by the latter method of spellation. The sample of half-drum ilk batted white-waisoosted plocked fram thate manaloce, of shels gotte, ples, and of For the present time by time by every pound which offende stripped sentenced a act to o the life of felcas, would tremendons deterrant, and the citizen of to-day tolghi bops ere long to be able to pa hle Ife In some sort of rille! from the serse of danger and Insecurity which com- pak him to regart every tesato posible prelade to his indlog himself law. fully trickol, plandered, and raised with out hope of remedy or reatitation. Lenda Coll ATTE lat w boun' deliberation jur, day, the . And Mrs Lotta Cozin gudiy of wring pooned er second Botany, Hy in July las Troperly speak ing, that jury had nothing to do with the allog Mos that was als galliy of having dre ber et haeband Assass, six monthe earlier The theory of the Crows apared to be shat there was a double murder or nome, and sh the incidents of both charges wwe brought sogester. The Chief Juales, ir Pas Datat, in addreeing the jury on this lark.co ston, and that you see by ill there might be some diferity in deciding whether a death wae or was the seas of a sident, but, taken tegese with Atase that probability was reduced very considerally The Jacy wire, therefore, called upon to one their wediet a regard to COLLINS death, partly on an opision one so in repro to ASURIE joy bad peciucaly disagred as t she osase of death in Ast CAM They had not agreed thas Awwar polesed at all No dear that if this jury hed to detersine wher ANDERS was or was posed they death wbesher weld have seed either. it was inmoble perhaps, to kep the tots in s ties, and there was a certain amont ilgisi mate, sutale eogner is the line of agusens shim Kowa presed, uub en understanding of a celinary ry is was liable to mineo that the pro balay of the acted woman having polained ce lebond Ave mad is very pbable tha she also polacned her husband CoLLING This is dangerly chan whatranen kom as the vicione orale. Ti many jtres it would te the orals. It is right so afven to us, is de of jury feilly the the sparen esme to s estelsaics, wit with Tlave jures had already tied her, and a sing all though the nigh had to be discharged walessandies. Two jarins had already trind ber or the parendar of doing Cess, and without se ing. Mr Jative Porres, to discharging the jury at the fint of the ec trials, wed that the gewas ce on which reasonable mie only dimgres night Cléel Juniem Dar i pamine the If you are guilty, tee as the loss of the third of the Cottise trals, acitroned to the words. ie yo Yes this last jury settled in two hours the question which had dull the protesesed deliberation two preceding juries, which me jodge declared pregnant with perfection to on, and and isted in the shrine ope wind, even whes the endmalin was arrive! with some degree of as to the of the fecition. There wenne tiden show The passion and De mrandings were perianly the same as they were at any time since the Cours to sideration fute. do The only mainity ug for on of this s jory does not, then, odoon in the conte increase the value of the vestia On Abe try, it soggste a dombs as to whether the jury we wholly free Teen the induence of stie va nasoning relored to alove ... The disemination of the Attorney General put the woman thru tine in her trial for the der of Cours we, we shak, things ad yly priced in no outers, the proper ca in the cironsmateson The siis old and fiial to the end. absolute rise in the limit list to be eiher concerns of life, wasbeer agt be tom of trying three prosind, in the past, be The lit number Thre, but some ind, and in som she mision of the old pos fail to couries, the pahle ocinion is that the accord per merits lis ir bir das was Mre. CYT inherent right, thes, that she abould be placed on her trial ro ob that, when would parelle lam in and be, the der, meal was not a liberty to depre reinsand, publio ople seriol. ere. Having Attorney of har of this right The ultion strength brows Mrs. CoNs has been noticed ly the ind of the Contile e strength would not be affected if it were shows that a layus pernew to meb orgusassson COM victed. The right would still be the spoty of acound persons sed it would reals the duty of the Attiny.Cemal to conquisit the radily the likelihood there war of a ccavis a. Baithe Asy-Gal, of the Crowa, arted peopedly la passieg a woman a third time c bor trial for this particilas orison, Til for the view takes of the legal alate to which she was entitled. The charges agales occ an le were compliated spor Belden she criminal haitory of New South Wales cr Aud fint A most og udbed quales in the advoeste defaid ng. The sexy contact the passione, se bas been indi este intricate, involved, and asal ja to of stress and cenity for a defeson of so snow spparently ritiated by a sible en so you from me of The defence, in the hands of the best lader of the Bar New South Wales et had, would have be works to their is limite the aman the resocross, the experience, and the intellecital temes of ad Vet in shari stano konwidgest power, the Crows appointed: 53 the defence ouls, innior barri It je with to dapodton to blame conneel that we pins to this The defines in many press showed boanety, in dustry, and begs momm of ability, but where the life of a somised pereon is at stake is 14 M gond, the day of the Crows insuply the de fendant with the heat real tals so its dinosal C. . The fasts for analised see, the, that Chess having been tried or alirtively for te polning of Aweso tirely be the planning of DOLLING wavicted on the third tris, guilty after delibernion excite surprise, and we ao furaiabod with the on skilled army And we und Ma show there was greater skill required in a new trial. 2018 juusify usin for wt, heritating in their vatest at the trial, wetterfort at the feath The fants should an eminently between the woman and the gallow We do noty at they prove her innot. They s quite pasite with the stay with folds ber guilty. what we do was is that they are also opstill with a theory of inaoines Our own opinion is that she is guilty. The that is only Colanthe opinion of one ce of teoor of several Is le not been arrived at in the manner which invest is with us certainty. Tu her setting bor dowa formally so rollar, odlic have passed into the form of legality. Bat here can be ne legal curiainy boost visit to fallacions segeinok; the be to legal sertainyhe defetos las bombe gate Thus, though there be Ingal cerainty o jeality ace of gulity, there to bigbant moral certainty present before the reas extel Beding ta thace ucies han dasond in fer car and only the fourth har find by this highe ertainty is as oor wantine Taking the ma of CoLLS, 24 opdien m ste juy have le core of en del beated long and antioudy are the sharge up After 10 and appear and, in a couple of boons, vislost any ow Tashing on the subjeck, pequen gly. In the conclusive 31abe were tid once more? Do arrived at ordine destroy all donine late Whas would happ this mddenly re Huncan eason refcans to so sisgks is this trebal- oltraps Whatever individual lions may le this absence of lagel ortainty and of the highes moral tainty i impassble exit btn La Coses and the evention of the LAW. heat was tod 2. Bot een shings the geef legal coralay and the highest moral certainty w pew would still obyees to the won big langed. Men should never voluntarily put in oks of their power to masy a thing asid, to undo & Ming doon. He has lived to small perpse who has not dis covered that the certains of his pas are, nosoy of them, the doober of his jureros, and who d not know that many things which are to ha certain today vill be storetan atew yours bence! it is a mitt, of onsit and ignorates which maka man ske lile penser day an sie era of orthoday. Like park the pet me is crowded with errosens opisions and false julg Is in the cuty of a man maad, when eve he es above is perch and setions that when the brighter reason he bell be able to pat she good in stase of the had. This canot do it he and action beyond the Unite c outml. Fins cute shen wie co s Juferont of o-day lead a po to death not iso ca sprch an
