REFORMED CRIMINALS.

Evening Star, Issue 12882, 3 August 1906, Page 11

REFORMED CRIMINALS.

. Some interesting particulars of London police court missionaries are given in 'Sunday at Home.' Tho career of MiHolmes occupies a foremost place. It is said that ho and his wife kept open house for criminals. Notorious burglars and dipsomaniacs passed tho night in Bedford road, and in nearly every case the hospitality shown them was appreciated, and in not a single cane was it abuse 1. Thieves who, could not keep their hands off other people's property had the run of his home, and never dreamt, of appropriating anything, though nothing was ever locked up. Apropos of the above, the * Young Man' contains an article by an ex-convict (the authorship is vouched for by the ediror) which forms a strong indiotment against Prisoners' Aid Societies. "My experience is," he fays, "that if you want to get a bona fide start,avoid such societies. You are simply a ' o-ise.' There is no personal effort made to set a man up." No one would trust or help him. The story is a sad one, but, the editor adds, "'Ex-con-vict ' is now on his way to Canada, where friends have secured him what Chris Man England has denied him—a fresh "chance."