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Show POLICE PERPLEXED BY HESS "DIPS" Unable to Obtain Convictions Tbrougli Temerity of Un-tfary- Victims. Dosplto tho fact thai thirty or forty negressos have been arrested as "dips" within tho last threo months, not a conviction con-viction has been obtained, although several sev-eral ebony, female pickpockets have been positively Identified by their victims as the thieves. Failing to convict the thieves tho police havo attempted to drive them from the city on vagrancy "floaters." "float-ers." but havo boon unsuccessful in most of tho cases. Tho police have been unable to obtain convictions through the rofusal of tho victims, vic-tims, who desired to avoid undesirable notoriety. In appear agahi3t the defendants. defend-ants. In only one Instance In the recent numerous coses did tho victim appear lo testify against the accused, and his testimony tes-timony failed to procure, a conviction because be-cause it was uncorroborated anil was con-Lradlcted con-Lradlcted by that of the two women who held him up and took his money. The women ply their trade at night and have secured hundreds of dollars from the unsuspecting within the last few months. Accosting her victim In a familiar fa-miliar manner, the colored "I.ndy Raffles" Raf-fles" lures him into a dark alley or behind be-hind a friendlv billboard and carefully and systematically goes through his pockets, pock-ets, usually obtaining every cent he hns. Ordinarily. It Is easy to capture tho thief but the victim hasn't the moral courage to appear as a wllness against the thief and bv thus giving his mime to tho public pub-lic attract undesirable notoriety. The. negress "dips" fully realize this and tako advantage of It. |