Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-01-15 | Page 9 | Gang of Pickpockets Worked the Crowds

GANG OF PICKPOCKETS WOBKED THE CiiS Salt Lake Men Sullor From Light-Fingered Gentry at Ogrioii. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN". Jan. 11 In the crush at tho entrance to Iho Grand theater Monday night Just before Iho Ncls-on-CHiford fight, what Is believed to havo been an organized gang of plckpockctii who came to tho city in anticipation of the large crowds, worked their gamo with more or Jess success. Harry i S. Joseph of Salt Lakc City was one of the victims. Fortunately For-tunately only a few railroad pusses and some papenj of no value to tho llglit-fingcrcd llglit-fingcrcd gentry wore stolen. II. P. Larsen of Salt 1-ake met with 'harder luck. He was touched nt the Union station while passing through the city on the Oregon Short L.lno en route to Bingham City, and relieved of a pockctbook containing $25. Tho pickpockets, pick-pockets, several In number, mado their "touch" by tlm rush act. A man giving the namo of Edward Dorn was arrested and is being held by tho police and will probably bo charged with tho crime. Larson Lar-son says four or live of the men mot him on the train and made an effort to pcr-suado pcr-suado him to get off when ho got to Og-den. Og-den. This he refused to do, but finally consented to go out on the platform of tho coach to smoke. The men then began be-gan to shove ngalnst him. and later he missed his pockctbook. The train was stopped at the switch and J.arsen got off. He reported his loss to the police and Dom was found seated In a bootblack stand on Twenty-fifth street. Larson Identified him as one of tho men in the gang. Dorn ' was arrested in Ogdcn December De-cember 11 charged with vagrancy.