Psychology of a Burglar.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 18, 16 October 1907, Page 5

Psychology of a Burglar.

Eugone Gurenow, a French Canadian, oh'aTgod before tho'Brißtol justices with burglory and stealing clothing and jewoilory, handed ill a written defence, paragraphs from which BTe upponded:— .. ■ \ ,"My case is plain; it is thus:—One of tho men who, tumble to find work and living by myself , Ihavo falknt in dirt and rags, becomo dosporate, and resorted to open violence as the last means to, get out of this trretched state. . ~... "I daiin that on the ground of human solidarity. I had before society a right for Borne help in the shape of work us the most propoi- and only moans to straighten up and make up for a blunder. ,j,,- : "Now I claim that, whereas I was helpless, it was in the powor of society to stop in and provent what nappened, since it was easy to tornseo I would become a public danger, ' ;"I had no liking for so low a job as this burglary. I put it off many timea, took to it with rchictanco, and wont to it without passion and hatred for anybody." • Tho prisonor wes Ecntcnccd to six months' imprisonment. . , . : .