Show it t efto ui acanto A CANTON s THIEF I 1 the lie editor of tl the c daily press thus thua gives his evidence with regard to canton thieves it pew few among our readers know what a canton thief really is let us give them a few illustrations W hichwa have partly seen ourselves and for the rest of which we can vouch we once caught a pickpocket at canton in the very act of practicing his nefarious vocation on our own personal property he babou had our hand handkerchief had him he was a miserable abed diminutive wretch but he drei n to the handkerchief with such tenacity that we could not take it from him we had an umbrella which we smashed to shreds and tatters over him we knocked him down three or four times an and d gwun swung 0 him against the wall but it was clear that bothin nothing 0 except such severe measures as we were e bisin to take would lead to the recovery of the property and we relinquished quis lied it having lost our hat as well as ellwin the scrimmage china mail april 15 16 |