The chaplain in charge of the penitentiaries in Kings County,
N. Y., states that one-half of all the young men whose
careers he has investigated show that the race-track and its
attendant evils were the beginning of their downward course.
The records of the evil and criminal courts, are replete with
similar testimony. Bankrupts, women who risk their married
happiness, clerks, pilfering from the till, embezzlers,
forgers, defaulters, suicides, show how, to quote a victim who
stole and then lost at one time $10,000 at the races, “that
betting is the devil’s own joke,” and there are many full-sized
victims.--S. PARKES CADMAN.
(1186)
See JUVENILE COURT EXPERIENCE.