H. Huffman Browne: Why Do People Commit A Crime?

We live in a world where we think that everyone is ready to commit a crime and when shown the facts there are more innocent people then we would think to be guilty. There is, however, people who with knowledge of a particular speciality take advantage of that and then in turn become criminals themselves. They take the innocence of other people and extort it. While they know so much about something they don 't believe that they will ever be able to get caught. H. Huffman Browne was a real-estate lawyer who practiced law in New York for 25 years. He was a middle aged man, who dressed very modestly. He spoke in a way that was calm and collected and very quiet in his demeanor. He was considered a gentleman and a scholar in his field. It was a shock to a few that a man like that can become a criminal and take advantage of others who had trust in him as a professional. The case that put Browne on the map was one of Ebbe Petersen. Petersen was a gentleman from Sweden who had emigrated to New York. He was very fortunate in making money and was able to buy a very large piece of land, which was later then called “The Bronx”. In 1888 Petersen had decided that he wanted to go Sweden to visit and when determining this he signed …show more content…
They came to find out that the land that he was trying to sell that was supposedly Hubert’s was from an Ebbe Petersen who had died years before. The land was then given to an Ignatius F. X. O’Rourke from Mrs. Petersen and also from another person John J. Keilly that has also given the same land to O’Rourke. That brought a lot of suspicion to the lawyers. How did the same plot of land be given to the same person twice by two different people? Another suspicion was the deed that Mrs. Petersen signed. The paper was signed with her mark and according to an intimate friend of the Petersen, she was educated and would never sign over a very important paper with just her