Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the originaldocument have been preserved.
The Autobiography of a Thief.
The Autobiography of
a Thief
Recorded by
HUTCHINS HAPGOOD
Author of "The Spirit of the Ghetto," etc.
NEW YORK
FOX, DUFFIELD & COMPANY
1903
Copyright, 1903, By
Fox, Duffield & Company
Entered at the Library of Congress, Washington, U. S. A.
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England.
Published May, 1903.
"Oh, happy he who can still hope to emerge from thissea of error!"
Faust.
"There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake,but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour,or the like; therefore why should I be angry with aman for loving himself better than me? And if any manshould do wrong merely out of ill-nature, why, yet it is butlike the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch because theycan do no other."
Bacon.
CONTENTS.
| Chapter | Page | |
| Editor's Note | 9 | |
| I. | Boyhood and Early Crime | 15 |
| II. | My First Fall | 34 |
| III. | Mixed Ale Life in the Fourth and Seventh Wards | 50 |
| IV. | When the Graft Was Good | 73 |
| V. | Mamie and the Negotiable Bonds | 89 |
| VI. | What the Burglar Faces | 107 |
| VII. | In Stir | 132 |
| VIII. | In Stir (Continued) | 154 |
| IX. | In Stir and Out | 182 |
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