There has been but one holdup, no burglaries, no violence, no banditry and no open gambling, bootlegging, thievery or trafficking in narcotics.
Banditry and crime went unsuppressed, and legislation served for little in the face of the corruption of officials and the lack of means to make the laws effective.
The ever-increasing banditry all over the country, murders of people on isolated haciendas, and general dislocation of business and lawlessness are what worry them.
The disbanding of the famous Liberating Army, financially and morally, continues to be the great difficulty, as from it have sprung all these flowers of banditry whose roots lie too deep, apparently, for plucking.
When De Boer was banished with some of his most loyal followers, he began a career of petty banditry in the Lowland's depths.
This was not the West as I had dreamed of it, not the West even of banditryand violent action.
But we trained her to carry the mail, and though there was no banditry in that section, we had to be on our guard with money coming in.
Even banditry becomes respectable if it observes "political" formalities, and at times the line between banditry and generalship became a matter of day-to-day intentions or of the size of the armed forces at hand.
The line between soldier and peasant was one which could be crossed easily, and the line between soldiery and banditry a matter of intention.
