Confessions of a Criminal; True Stories of Dick Lane Told by Himself Daring Bank Robberies Described, Old Police Mysteries Solved, Exciting Burglaries

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1904 Excerpt: ... kind of shape he'd have got away with the goods without a hitch, but he was drunk and stumbles over a chair. The noise wakes the doctor up, but he has no cannon, and even then Patsy has time for a getaway, but he's obstinate and when the man calls out, Who's there? he growls, Get back to bed or I'll shoot your head off. But the doctor has a cannon planted in the next room and he makes a dive for it. When he comes back there's that blamed fool still prowlin' through opened drawers and boxes with the moon shinin' through a window on him. And the doctor, just naturally knowin' he had a gun, points his own at him and shoots a hole right through Patsy's head. It all came out at the inquest and in the papers next day, but I wasn't there as a witness or to be interviewed. I was hittin' up the road purty lively for points far away and I wasn't carryin' a booze bottle as dead weight, either. And I'm tellin' you again that there's no good in drink when you're tryin' to do anything, or for that matter when you ain't, either. XI AN EXPLOSIVE COMEDY WITH A SHORT TALK ABOUT HANDCARS I often think how these here automobiles have got the old handcar skinned to death. A handcar, you know, was the kind of private car our gang generally used when the railroad wasn't accommodatin' enough to run a special, so's we could make an easy getaway from a job. Sometimes we had to make out with a buggy, either borrowed or stolen, and sometimes we just had to leg it. But mostly we was able to ride like swells on our own private car and it didn't cost us nothin', either. The other day I had a spin in the automobile that belongs to the main squeeze at the newspaper office where I work. He's always been my friend and it sure was bully of him to pick me up just as I was leavin' the offic...