Since the temptation is great to get a whole lot for nothing and to do it quickly, and since it is so easily done these days, the marauding criminal will be most any type of criminal; but he is commonly a murderously-inclined high-wit of his class of exceptional nerve and resourcefulness, to the first of which he is commonly helped by such as heroin, and to the second by that spitting devil in spurious hands--the automobile. When he is a low-wit, and plans accordingly, the "finest" betimes get him; and when they do, he is a low-wit indeed if he cannot flash an indestructible alibi. Why not, when the testimony of his retainers is accepted at its face value in our courts of law? The above partition of the predal crew is far from final, either as to selection of tools, or the manner in which they are employed. There will be overlapping and underlapping all along the criminal line, although the criminal is commonly quite as nice as another about his caste, habitually foregathers with those of his attainment, and affects to spurn smaller fry. But bear it in mind that no two criminals are impelled to criminousness by identically the same underlying impulsions. The moral weakling stepped off with pyramided peculation, got caught at it, and lacking moral stamina to face out squarely a grave mistake, chose the supposedly lesser line of resistance to "easy money." This lad, congenitally tainted with light fingers, brought up in the midst of criminal suggestion, deprived of the benefit of influences that might have counterbalanced, literally kicked into the company of habitual thieves, finally casts his lot with them and lets it go at that. That young man, inoculated with several species of the sporting bug, and with virus that saps at once his courage and vitality, gets entangled where he can't get clear, juggles figures, and finds his way into a 6 x 8 cell, where, being a consummate ego-centric--spite of the miserable mess he has made of it--he indulges in self pity, swears to himself that "everybody gave him the worst of it," and declares for reprisal upon society in general. This is the type most likely either to "overlap or underlap," depending upon the prison régime and the after-parole circumstance. Another, engulfed over a heartless wench who rouses in him the demon jealousy--through playing him against the fellow who flashes "real" money, and for whom she adjusts the base string of her bow--goes desperate for means with which to match his rival's flings, "borrows" "bundle" after "bundle" from his employer, bets all, mostly on the wrong "ponies," is held up, then thrown down by the girl, and then caves in and limps into a life of crime. Such as the latter two types are criminals by the legal book, but as a rule they are not intrinsic criminals. Rather, they are comparatively spineless misfits in a closely competitive social scheme.