|Full Transcript- source 2 |A prison governor who asked some of
the inmates in his prison, how they had committed their crimes
wrote this. In this source an inmate describes how to break into
a house. |(Catalogue ref: HO 73/2) "There are various methods of
gaining an entrance into Houses. Besides those described, an
entry is frequently obtained by getting into an empty house
nearest adjoining the one intended to be robbed, going along the
tops of the houses and entering at the attic windows, or by
opening a ground floor window and sending in a Boy who either
packs up all portable articles in the room and hands them out,
or he secretes himself 'till the family retire for the night;
according to the direction of his employers, whom he admits when
all is quiet - if the boy is discovered, his excuse is that he
met a man whom he never saw before who obliged him to come in at
the window but he did not tell him what to do. His eyes are
speedily suffused - tears have a mighty effect, thieves say, in
honest people - s