Show PICKPOCKET IS m Sty SLY Veteran Detective Tells of oJ the tha 1 Dips Tricks Warns Against the Man Ulan Who Folds I His Arms Danger Arms Danger Behind a Newspaper Some Cut Your Pockets This Chicago Chicago This burg is having an unusual number of Jobs by pickpockets ets said sald a veteran detective a few days ago ngo I 1 hardly understand the revival of this sort of or crime as the best of the dips ha have va been pretty well stowed away and the complaints of lifted leathers and tickers have been few until recently By dips the old sleuth meant pickpocket When he used the word lifted he referred to the taking of of an article by lay a pickpocket In the I vernacular of or a a pickpocket a pocket pocketbook pocketbook pocketbook book is a leather and a watch is a I ticker A diamond Is a spark I dont don't know where this mob comes from as I haven't been working on the cases continued the detective but it seems to be composed of a pretty clever lot of dips It may be e necessary to explain again that by mob the old thief taker meant a band of pickpockets These fellows usually work in pairs and it Is not unusual for tor them to clear up several thousand dollars in ina ina ina a few days If one of them falls faIls that is being i y 1 v f r i iI iSome I Some Methods of Pickpockets arrested there generally is a fund out of which his lawyers lawyer's fees tees are paid and the rest of the gang stands stands' by him making every effort to clear him You ask me how to avoid having you pockets picked Well Vell I dont don't believe belleve be be- lieve any man can give advice on that subject It Is hard to tell what style stylea a pickpocket Is going to adopt Usual Usually Usually ly he works in a crowd The jam on the elevated stations Is a good place but there generally Is a pair of fly cops on each of the loop stations at night and the crooks know it Then they get on the surface cars and work the platforms Several of the recent Jobs have been done that way One HOne of the commonest methods of ot stealing a diamond stud Is to get them with a pair pall of having a pocket into which the stone falls when it is cut off The Tho dip usually works from behind a newspaper Of or course you cant can't watch every man with a newspaper on a n street car but if you have anything valuable about you It is well weIl to do soA soA soA so A skilled crook may use a knife with razor-like razor blade to cut away the pocket Keep your eye on the man who folds his arms His hands may maybe maybe maybo be bo at rest or they may be engaged in picking pockets We call caIl the man who robs women a moll moIl buzzer While the victim I is looking in n a shop window or standing in a street car he opens her hand bag and gets the leather There are arc not many of these Jobs any more for tor women have havo become wise |