Show it seems funny to read that there Is a gang of 0 california female picklock c ets ts in denver because tor for thirty years a after ISO 1849 we believe there was never a genuine pickpocket in california there were plenty of men who would cut rind and shoot on the slightest provocation were plenty of men who did not scruple at tho the higher order of crimes at all but there were no petty thieves and no pickpockets pick pockets so BO tar far as we know it Is possible there would have been had jt it not been con orally understood that the petty thief it if caught would to te very liable to bo be hanged there were some grand larceny thieves men who mho did not mind stealing 9 a b band and of cattle or a mine or a block of real estate who did not mind robbing a stage or a sluice box or doing anything where some courage was required and where the risk was very great but to RO go in a a crowd and pick a persons pocket or steal his watch was wag an all unheard of offense in those old days and we take it now that it if there Is a cang of female pickpocket pick pockets a in denver they were first imported to california and then transported to denver we do not believe that they were to tho the california manor born |