Show JAPANESE pickpocket which Is wen and under ander discipline the japanese alel pickpocket pocket is an artful and talented knave the public ia notified to beware of him at stall al I 1 points the lick pickpocket pocket here is cultivated and trained for his profession in tokio he is 19 to ome come extent the slave of a master who trains him looks after him when he be is in jail or ill markets the stolen goods and who shares in the proceeds the police of the capital have the names and addresses of about a thousand professional pickpockets pick pockets known as suri that is people given to all forms of outdoor theft of this number only about SO 50 are women so well is the fraternity known that about SO 50 per cent pass through the hands of the police yearly yearl 1 the organization of these thieves is aid a d to be perfect benevolence and belp falness being distinguishing characteristics Is ties there are about 70 masters in tokio men who apparently carry on legitimate business but who are in fact teachers of pickpockets pick pockets and employers of f the same in what is known as the district a man known as seji is the boss and thieves belonging to any other parts of the city are not permitted to poach upon his preserves lie he is in supposed to have about 40 deft fingered fel lowe working for him on sharing terms ile he takes good care of these rascals and I 1 the plunder turned in is usually sent cent 0 off C at once to another city to be turned into money according to a journalist who has made something of a study of these pickpockets pick pockets there is a high sense of honor in the fraternity smartness in working a crowd is looked upon with great fa la faor or and a man who uses rough or improper methods is tabooed tabo oed not long ago a toldo tokio pickpocket chloro formed a man in a railway car and stole his watch ile he lost caste at once no 20 respectable thief will associate with him and ha will probably be driven eventually to pilfering clotheslines of course where the police have such anch intimate knowledge of the pickpockets pick pockets it is no not difficult to recover stolen property ert y when promptly notified they will vill recover the a tolen etolen article four times oat of alve N Y herald |