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Suppose an offender had been sentenced to an imprisonment of six months for a larceny, and that while in prison he had committed some new crime.
You should have seen the desk sergeant grow purple in the gills when we shows up in front of the rail the second time. "Say, what do you sports think you're doin', anyway?" he demands. "I'll make a charge of petty larceny and disorderly conduct," says the cop, layin' the evidence on the desk. "Will you, Myers?" says the sergeant sarcastic. "Didn't ask him if he had a receipt, I suppose?
Now, government is by nature so incapable of directing labor that every reward bestowed by it is a veritable larceny from the common treasury. M. Reybaud shall furnish us the text of this induction.
"Then why aren't you afraid of being shot for a burglar, and why do you go so gaily about grand larceny?" The girl's light laughter was friendly and fearless. "Do you live alone?" he inquired after a moment's silence. "Yes. My parents are not living." "You are rather an unusual girl, Miss Erith." "Why?"
The list of disqualifying crimes is long, including those of which negroes are most commonly found guilty, such as larceny, false pretence, bigamy, adultery, wife-beating, and receiving stolen goods.
He supported himself mostly by petty larceny. Once the police picked him up and he was brought to a home for neglected children. In the home he was trained as a locksmith. He knew how to ingratiate himself with his superiors by showing unusual dexterity and willingness. He secretly tormented his younger, weaker comrades, or he set the stronger ones against each other.
While he had not personally profited by that transaction it was, he said, his nearest approach to actual larceny and he wished to make reparation, the more particularly as Eliphalet complained that the sale of his stock was frustrated by the mysterious substitution of Leary's stolen bills for the money in Seebrook's trunk.
A shameless blend of petty larceny, mendacity, fleas, gourmandism, dirt and unequalled plausibility. You meet the War dog on some endless road.
Late in the afternoon, when the same stillness reigns, the same scenes are repeated. There is a black variety, quite rare, but mating freely with the gray, from which it seems to be distinguished only in color. The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
The nature of the oppression is the same, only less heinous and flagrant. He who took a penny belonging to another is a thief as truly as the man who took a pound. Petit larceny and grand larceny differ only in the amount stolen. The man who takes three per cent. of the labor of another wrongfully defrauds as the man who takes fifty per cent.
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