Crime Does Not Pay #65

Crime Does Not Pay #65 This issue contains multiple true-crime stories. "On the Level" by C.H. Moore recounts historical crimes including a 1874 bank heist where four men were found in the N.Y. Savings Bank vault with steam engine attachments for cutting the vault, and a 1864 railroad robbery between New York and Boston where $700,000 in gold was stolen by John Grady and confederates. The issue also features a story about George Kelly, a petty criminal who becomes involved with Kathryn Collins and transforms into a man of action, eventually being caught and imprisoned after criminal exploits involving Machine-Gun Kelly; and a narrative involving Vernon Bodin, a man whose family struggles lead him into crime, though he ultimately finds redemption through family reconciliation in Madison.