Show I riCPOCKET AT SA1TAIR He Was Caught AVith Ills hand In the AVomniis Pocket Deputy Marshal Davis who looks after the general peace of Saltair was approached ap-proached by an excited woman with several male and female companions whe declared that a pickpocket was at large in the crowd just alighted from the train The woman said she had just gotten off the 2f3 train and was coming along the platform in the jostling mass of humanity human-ity when she suddenly felt a hand thrust into her pocket She glanced around quickly and says she saw a fellow just drawing her purse from her pocket She made an outcry and he dropped the mae droPPd te I pure back and made off in the crowd A search was immediately instituted and in a short time Marshal Davis found his man who was identified by the woman and three men who had seen the act The fellow of course denied that he had had anything to do with the purse or pocket He said that he was stooping to pick up his handkerchief which he had dropped on the platform when the woman called out and he had gone away Marshal Davis however put him under I arrest and telephoned to the local police to take him into custody The train men were then deputized to bring him to the city and he came in on the late afternoon train He was met at the depot by the patrol wagon with Sergeant Eslinger and taken to the station staton When searched there some money was found on his person in addition to a small pair of scissors such as pickpockets pick-pockets use to cut out pockets that cannot can-not be picked A curious thing in the shape of a notebook was also found The first three pages contained a set of cabalistic characters that would make a professor in Volapuk or ancient Greek turn green with envy Nothing else of a suspicious nature with the exception of a fine silk handkerchief which looked as though it belonged to some lady was found on his person though he was thoroughly thor-oughly searched He gave the name of J B Stineweg and said he had only recently arrived in the city For two or three days he has been watched by the detectives as a suspicious sus-picious character it being thought he might possibly be one or the bicycle thieves who are causing so much trouble lately He is a man of medium build pockmarked and very silent He did not resist arrest and rested very easy under confinement |