Why Crime Does Not Pay

About this eBook

Author

Lyons, Sophie, 1848-1924

Title

Why crime does not pay

Credits

E-text prepared by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Subject

Criminals -- Biography

Category

Text

eBook-No.

59621

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59621

Release Date

May 27, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( https://archive.org ) — WHY CRIME DOES NOT PAY.
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.INTRODUCTION
4. 4.CHAPTER I — ARRESTED FOR PICKING POCKETS — A THIEF FROM THE CRADLE — MY ESCAPE FROM SING SING — I SEE WHY CRIME DOES NOT PAY — FOR MY CHILDREN'S SAKE — A MOTHER'S LOVE WINS AT LAST — HOW I PLANNED A BANK ROBBERY — WHAT DELAYED OUR PLANS — WE GET OUR PLUNDER
5. 5.CHAPTER II — RAYMOND'S FIRST CRIMES — AMBITIOUS TO BE A BANK BURGLAR — ROBBING THE BOYLSTON BANK — RAYMOND'S GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT — PLANNING THE GAINSBOROUGH ROBBERY — HOW THE GREAT MASTERPIECE WAS STOLEN — PAT SHEEDY'S PART — RAYMOND AND HIS YACHT — RAYMOND'S EXPERT ON SAFE CRACKING — TREACHERY AND TRAGEDY
6. 6.CHAPTER III — PLANNING LYONS'S ESCAPE — "RED" LEARY LENDS AID — THE PRISON BELL SOUNDS ALARM — NED LYONS IN DISGUISE — AN EASY BANK ROBBERY — HOW BULLARD GOT OUT — "SHEENEY MIKE'S" ESCAPE — HORRORS WORSE THAN DEATH
7. 7.CHAPTER IV — WE PLAN TO START A BANK — I ENTER "HIGH FINANCE" — HOW WE FOOLED THE PUBLIC — OUR BANKING BUBBLE BURSTS — HOW I ESCAPED ARREST — MRS. GARDNER'S CLEVER SCHEME — SWINDLING ONE DOCTOR A DAY — OUR EXPERIENCE IN LONDON
8. 8.CHAPTER V — HOW WE ROBBED A STORE — MY HUSBAND IS SHOT — WHAT CAME OF OUR CRIMES — A BANKER HIRES US TO ROB — BORING INTO THE BANK VAULT — MY COMRADE'S NARROW ESCAPE — WE GET THE BANK'S MONEY — FACING A LYNCHING MOB — HOW I SAVED TOM'S LIFE
9. 9.CHAPTER VI — STALKING THE WATCHMAN — NUGENT, THE POLICEMAN-BURGLAR — OPENING THE GREAT VAULT — A TIP TO THE POLICE — THE NIGHT BEFORE — CONSULTATION IN THE DARK — FOOLING THE PATROLMAN — THE JANITOR'S ESCAPE — THE WEAK SPOT — THE WATCHMAN'S CONFESSION — HUNTING DOWN THE GANG
10. 10.CHAPTER VII
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII — QUEEN OF THE THIEVES — ENCOURAGING PICKPOCKETS — ROBBING TIFFANY — DRY GOODS STORE THIEVES — THE SECRET OF THE CHIMNEY — "MOTHER'S" GLASS HOUSE — GRADY THE DARING — STEAM-DRILL BURGLARY — GRADY'S ROMANTIC DEATH — CREED OF THE "FENCES" — SHINBURN AND THE "FENCE" — HE TURNS BURGLAR AGAIN
12. 12.CHAPTER IX
13. 13.CHAPTER X
14. 14.CHAPTER XI
15. 15.CHAPTER XII
16. 16.AN INTERVIEW WITH SOPHIE LYONS
17. 17.SOPHIE LYONS AIDS EVICTED FAMILY
18. 18.SOPHIE LYONS RETURNS

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