MODERN FAGINS

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13935, 14 July 1919, Page 4

MODERN FAGINS

* js.. ■V" Are there many Fagin® in modern life? The question was put to a social worker by a Daily Chronicle. pe^tresenjhative, who 1 pointed to a sentence recently passed on a man for received property stolani by] ai boy of fifteen. "There are a large number of mem who attempt to train boys to 'be thieves," the expert replied. "Unless they (are very clever they are found out soomer or later. A 1 boy may continue thieving for months on end. Then he its suddenly caught because he forgetis to be wary, amid usuallyi the whole story comes out. "The pity of it is that the real offenders are so often not discovered until after the crimes have been going "on (for isome time. It is th«n difSoult' toi kriow what to do with th« boys. > '''It generally happens that such boys are lafradd of their masters in jejvil; they are told that ifi they don't .go omj bringing small stolen articles dreadful things -wall happeti to them, and' out of sheer fright they do as tihiey are Hx>ld. "To come under the influemce of one of these <modem Pagans is often the first step dm a life to crime."