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Show PICKPOCKETS FIND CONDITIONS HARD Proceeds of Fifty or Sixty Bobberies Amount to but J15 Gunmen Active NTJW 10EK, Dec 4 More thin 100 pickpockets unable to make a 1 ting by follow ng their vocation ha c turned temporar ly honest w th n the last two months and have sought work accord og to records u ade publ c today by the department of correct on Old time p ckpockets tell s sa d Deputy Lo amiss oner Lewis that by r fling fifty or xtv pockets a day they can n ate only $15 or so a week. They used to be able to ret re for a n onto after picking half a dozen pockets. IVilks haven t been carry ng n oney in the r clotl es recentlv Some of the i ckpockets hs e turned gunmen This mav acco nt n part for the so-called cr me it e If the s tuation continues all tho pickpock ets in the c ty probably will go out of busincs ' 4 |