  CHAPTER I. Boyhood and Early Crime. CHAPTER III. Mixed-Ale Life in the Fourth and Seventh Wards. CHAPTER IV. When the Graft Was Good. CHAPTER V. Mamie and the Negotiable Bonds. CHAPTER VI. What The Burglar Faces. CHAPTER VIII. In Stir ( continued ). CHAPTER X. At the Graft Again. CHAPTER XII. On the Outside Again. CHAPTER XIII. In the Mad-House. Transcriber's Note: Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been preserved. The Autobiography of a Thief.Title Page The Autobiography of Recorded by NEW YORK Copyright, 1903, By Entered at the Library of Congress, Washington, U. S. A. Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England. Published May, 1903. "Oh, happy he who can still hope to emerge from this sea of error!" Faust. "There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake, but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like; therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill-nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch because they can do no other." Bacon. |
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