The Money Grabbers

February, 1964

Tiring of things, I began collecting people. Mirror-image scoundrels, for example – men who seemed to have had almost identical criminal careers in different centuries, like Gaston B. Means in the 20th and Sam Felker in the 19th. From them it was only a small hop to my present specialty – the successful, i.e., uncaught criminals.The trouble with the really successful crook is that we don't hear about him. He remains uncaught, untried, his tale untold. For all his vibrant ego, no successful crimi...