Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1925 — Page 2

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FORMER SAFE BLOWER NOW GOOD SAMARITAN , Harry Haines, Who Once Faced 260 Years in Prison, Is * Bowery Uplift Worker.

Bu SEA Service NEW YORK, June 19.—Down in the Bowery’s .streets of furtive men they need no introduction to the steel-eyed, wiry-bodied little man in the brown business suit, j They knew him “wihen.” Over his head hung- prison sentences aggregating four average life- ' time*. Hidden away in various | places was a good fortune in cold ! cash, “lifted” in some of the couni try’s most spectacular “safe jobs." He could have taught even Gerald Chapman a thing or two. Crookdom lost its slickest safe cracker when Harry Haines “went straight.” Found ‘Crooked Trail With all his intelligence, his su-per-knowledge of locks and combinations and safe doors, Haines had found the crooked trail a short one with an abrupt ending. And that is why you’ll find him today in the Bowery Y. M. C. A. in a well-pressed business suit, his shoes carefully shined, his graystreaked hair neatly brushed, his face clean-shaven, his mind fresh and his heart free. ‘lt literally pays to go right, even If being good results in -what may : appear to be the humblest of circumstances.” he says. “Even a halfi way jo’ * is more profitable than a i criminal’s game. A crook never has l money long. It's a millstone around f his neck and in one way or another j it sinks him. Going right has moral ; and spiritual value, but it also has I business value apd that’s what evj ery youngster should think about when he contemplates going ( wrong.” ~ r ~ None Is Past Saving ! He is spending the rest of his life trying to tell the Bowery drifters what he learned from years of the most varied experience. And the be--1 ginning of his story is always this: f “There is no such thing as a man who has gone too far for reclame, tion.” Across his path come scores of ; men who had heard of him in the ’ underworld, some of them dopenumber specimens that he is able to help. But the largest group and the group he is able to help most is composed of homeless men of the metropolis. They are not crooks—just temporarily out of luck and friendless. They are the material j out of which criminals are made uni less a Harry Haines shows them a j better way. i Harry Haines can “appreciate” i their point of view, giving them f straight-from-the-shoulder facts. | From the platform or in a quiet ! corner he tells them his story with : the Scotch burr buzzing through his • words. Coached By Expert “I ran away from Scotland when a boy and went to sea,” he relates. “Coming to this country a stranger from first cabin gained my confidence. He said he would look after me. He got me a job as office boy In one of the big safe companies. And then, one day I learned that I was being coached by the head of the biggest crook ring in America. He was training me from the bottom. “While employed at the safe company I was to steal blue-prints of safes, I -was to learn the combinations and study the locks and report. “Before long I knew safes inside and out and I was pointed to as the smartest beginner in the game. “In the years that followed there was no part of the country in which I didn’t work, no underworld where I wasn’t knowm, no safe job too big for me. Booze “Gets” Him “The years went by and my reputation spread. It got so that I would be called in on big jobs. They would send me from one city to another. The cops of the nation were looking for me. The Bowery became my hang-out. I had made political friends through election dealings of the old days. ‘Finally, I must have had something like $250,000 In loot. But, Like the rest of the underworld, I had learned booze and dope and they were getting me. The bosses of crookdom knew it. They spent big money on cures And I did jail time, but never got the stuff. Nothing would have done any good if I hadn’t happened to pass a place where a Salvation Army band was singing one night. That set me thinking. There was a spiritual and moral regeneration. I gave God a chance and got on the right trail at last. Returns Loot "I went to Teddy Roosevelt. He was then just swinging into the mayoralty contest. I laid my w r hole story before him. I had something like 260 years to serve in prisons.

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to give back every cent I had stolen and then I had to take such medicine as the law wanted to give me. But he promised to help. “Well, I gave back the money and I went to jail for a fifteen-year stretch. But I had found the cure— It was In the freedom of heart and mind that came with the birth of religion. When I got out of prison I was cured. I had mighty tough luck and a hard struggle, and finally I attracted the attention of people interested in fighting the dope menace. That’s how I came at last to the Bowery Y. M. C. A.” Into this famous institution,

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