Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1879 — Why He Stole. [ARTICLE]

Why He Stole.

New York Graphic, He bad a wife. His salary was $2,500 per anutn. But she complained. She wanted a better house. Better clothes. Nothing fit to go out in. No country cottage. Nor carriage. ■ Nor front pews. Nor society. She coverted a place on the ragged edge of the select 500. She kept it up. Night and day. And moaned'amt Groaned and / Growled aud Wept. He lacked style, also, As well as new clothes every six weeks, and various other things. He knew how. his employer made several hundreds daily on the street. A thousand Or so would not be missed for a few hours. So he took It, went upon the street, aud won. She got her sealskin. He took more and lost. More to get that back and lost. More yet. Defalcation disco vefe.d He wyars the penitentiary check. Others are going to. Beware. But if you win regularly, society won’t be hard on you. But if you lose, society will set down on you. . Better is a modest room up two pair rtf Tiack stairs than a cell in l he Tombe. And a plain woolen jacket rather thau a pair of prison uniform pants on poor Charley’s legs.