Chapters On Prisons And Prisoners And the Prevention of Crime
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"Keeping bad company, regardless of the remonsti-ances of my father, who at last turned me out of doors ; so, having no home, I fell to dishonest means. The pleasures of sin were sweet ; and one crime brought on another, until God, in his providence, put a stop to my career. " 20. " Disobedience to my parents, and profaning the Lord's- day : then commencing with little things, such as a few plums from a garden, &c. " 21. "I was a fool, and said in my heart, There is no God. " CAUSES OF CONVICTS...' CRIME. 287 22. "When I was eleven years of age, I went to serve a farmer, who gave me beer to drink every day, so that I soon got very fond of it. " 23. " Leaving my master's house at night without his know- ledge, for the purpose of gratifying my sinful propensities, which at last caused me to be dismissed from my place without a character. I then" fell to drinking and gambling, until I was almost starved, having neither food nor clothing. So drink has brought me here, and here I hope to leave it.
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