Men come back from the penitentiary and build up fortunes with the money they stole.

Their hammered brass fronts and colored electric lights are not unknown to Clark Street.' "'But you suffered remorse, of course,' the reporter suggested.
"'I think that there is a great deal of humbug about the remorse a man feels,' Brooks replied.

'I regretted that I had been forced to kill the old man, for with all his stinginess he was rather kind-hearted, but I had to save my own life.

It is true that I didn't have to commit the robbery, but robbery is not a capital crime.' "'But the self-defense of a robber, when it results in a tragedy, is a murder,' the reporter suggested.
"'We'll see about that,' Brooks coolishly replied.
"'Do you make this confession with the advice of your lawyer ?' "'No, but at the suggestion of my own judgment.

When I was told that the old woman had seen the killing and that, of course, her deposition would be introduced in court, I then knew that it was worse than useless to protest my innocence.