[8] Including under the general term "fraud," obtaining money by false pretences, thefts by solicitors, bankers, agents, directors, trustees, etc. ("generally recorded under the euphony 'misappropriation'"), falsifying accounts, etc., Mr. Schorling found that taking the number of these two divisions of crime between 1885-1889 as 100% there had been the following relative decrease and increase between them:
| All Crimes Except Fraud | Frauds | ||||
| 1885-1889 | 100% | 1885-1889 | 100% | ||
| 1890-1894 | 96.2% | 1890-1894 | 110.1% | ||
| 1895-1899 | 90.4% | 1895-1899 | 138.3% | ||
A similar table constructed for the United States during the last fifteen years would be instructive but perhaps unduly depressing. Recent financial and other disclosures would probably send up the mercury of the "fraud" thermometer until it burst.
[9] Cf. "Unpunished Commercial Crime" in "Moral Overstrain," by G.W. Alger. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1906.
[10] See "True Stories of Crime," referred to supra, p. 15.
[11] Since the publication of this book Summerfield has been discharged from prison, having earned his parole by exemplary conduct. He has gone West to lead a new and better life, and there is reason to believe that he will succeed in doing so.
THE ARREST