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Taken From "How To Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
May 7,1931,New York had the most sensational man hunt ever known. "Two gun" Crowley the gunman who didn't smoke or drink and was trapped in his girlfriends apartment on West End Avenue.
One hundred and fifty policemen laid siege to his apartment. They teargased him and mounted their machine guns to surrounding buildings. For one hour New York residential areas reverberated with the crack of pistol fire and machine guns. Crowley fired incessantly crouched behind an over-stuffed chair. When Crowley was captured it was told that he was one of the most dangerous criminals in the history of New York, and that he would kill at the drop of a hat.
But How Did "Two Gun" Crowley regard himself? It was during this frachard between Crowley and the police, that Crowley wrote a letter addressed
"To whom it may concern"
In this blood soaked letter Crowley wrote, "Under my coat is a weary heart, but a kind one, one that would do nobody any harm".
A short time before this Crowley was with his girlfriend on a country road, when a policeman walked up and asked him for his license, without a word Crowley drew his gun, and cut the policeman down.
Crowley jumped out of the car took the revolver from the policeman, and continued to shoot him dead.
Crowley was sentenced to death by electric chair,His last words were not
"This is what I get For Killing People"?
Rather He said "This is what I get for defending Myself"!
The Point Of The Story Is This: Crowley didn't blame himself for anything he had done!
Is that an Unusual Attitude among criminals? If you think so then listen to this...
I've spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.
Al Capone said that!
Americas most notorious public enemy. Capone didn't condemn himself, he regarded himself as a public benefactor, he was just unappreciated and misunderstood.
Now if Al Capone, and "Two gun"Crowley along with all those men and women behind prison walls don't blame themselves what about those we come in contact with.
I learnt fairly early in life that it is foolish to scold, you have enough problems overcoming your own troubles with out fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly, the gift of intelligence.
That 99 times out of 100 people don't criticize themselves no matter how wrong it may be. Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usuallymakes him strive to justify himself.
When your tempted to criticize someone, remember Al Capone and "Two Gun" Crowley, realize that criticisms are like homing pigeons, they always return home.
We must realize that the person we are going to correct and condemn will probably justify themselves and condemn us,all in the same breath.
Instead of condemning people, we need to try to understand them, figure out why they do what they do. It's alot more profitable and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.
To know all is to forgive all.
God himself does not propose to judge man until the end of his days.
Why Should You And I?
Principal #1. Don't Criticize, Condemn or Complain.
March 2000
Public Enemy Number One:
The Short Life And Violent Times Of Two Gun Crowley And Trigger Burnke
By John William Tuohy
John William Tuohy is a writer who lives in Washingon, D.C.
The poverty that hung over the Irish ghettos of New York continued to spew out a whole array of gunmen well into the 20th century including the sad case of Francis "Two gun" Crowley.
Crowley had been abandoned as a child and was raised in foster homes since infancy. At age 12, one of these foster families farmed him out to work as a day laborer and factory worker.
From that point on, Crowley, who may have been mildly retarded according to some Police sources, grew into a small time neighborhood thief and pickpocket.
A timid young man, he never drank nor smoked, unusual for a New York neighborhood wise guy.
Crowley broke into his short lived criminal career in his late teens as an armed robber and eventually hooked up with another small time crook named Rudolf Durunger.
One evening, Crowley and Durunger meet a dance hall hostess named Virginia Banner, whom the pair eventually kidnaped and raped her, afterwards Crowley shot the girl through the head.
Police ballistic experts matched the bullets from the young women's body from those Crowley had fired at recent stick up but left them without any clues as to who the gun belonged to.
They found out several months later when Police officers patrolling a lovers lane stumbled on to Crowley and his girl friend parked along the road.
At first the officers politely told the couple to move along, but Crowley decided to argue the point. When one of the officers demanded to see Crowley drivers license, Crowley pulled out a revolver and shot the cop dead on the spot.
The cops matches Crowley's bullets again, but this time they had his name and description. Police put out a shot to kill order on Crowley, who had managed to escape into the city with his new girlfriend, 16 year old Helen Walsh and Durrunger.
Tracked down to an apartment on West 90th street by an army of policeman, the area was roped off for two square blocks after an all out, day light gun battle erupted between Crowley and the cops who fired 700 shots in the general direction of the apartment where Crowley and company were shooting from, all the while with Crowley, a gun in each hand, screaming out the window "You ain't gonna take me alive coopers"
That probably would have been fine with the police, except by now the whole gun battle had taken on a circus atmosphere with hundreds of spectators leaning out apartment windows or on roof tops cheering Crowley on.
Police responded with tear gas, which Crowley quickly tossed back at them, to the wild cheers from crowds. Finally enough tear gas was used and a squad of policeman rushed the apartment to find Crowley, Walsh and Duringer hiding under a bed.
At the trial Walsh testified against Crowley, claiming to have been kidnaped and Duringer, who was facing a rape/murder charge, blamed every crime he had ever committed on Crowley as well.
It didn't matter, both young men were sentenced to death in the electric chair. They were executed in November of 1933.
James 3 : 2-5
For we all stumble in many ways If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.
Now if we put the bits into the horses' mouths so that they will obey us, we direct their entire body as well.
Look at the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, are still directed by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot desires.
So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!
For every species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race.
But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison.
With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God;
Build People Up
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving……
“The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?”
~ Dale Carnegie
“Strangely enough, the people who accept people, and like them just as they are, have the most influence in changing the other person’s behavior for the better.”
– Les Giblin
Build people up by complimenting them. This is called edification. Don’t put people down. Love and Care for all. I highly recommend two books of wisdom in this area. The first is, “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, by Dale Carnegie. And the second, “How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People.”, by Les Giblin. If everyone on this planet were to read these two books in order to graduate from Middle School. The entire world would be an awesome place. What it comes down to is two very basic laws of nature.
A)Don’t complain, criticize, or condemn – this creates division among people, no one likes to be criticized.
B)Do Accept, Approve, and Appreciate - People want to feel appreciated, they want to be liked. As Jesus Christ said, “Love thy neighbor as thy self.” Love conquers all. Love will always triumph. Don’t you agree?
