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Show MODERN BAFFLES DOES NOT STEAL Haunts New Yrk Restaurants . and Tips Off Viotims ts the Gang. It .-J IS COLLEGE GRADUATE . I Scout far Lower Cast 8ld Qang la Man of Education and Refinement Ha Juat Oats the News and Paaaea It On. New York. l'robublr the thief was a liar. Most thtoves are. But h said that the scout fur his lower Kant side gang Is a college graduate. ' "Ho cnincti from a grand family, too," said he. "That's how ho cqn talk to dexo dames. If I was to try to make 'em I'd go do! for the count." ' y s , Tlilk kiuuii' Job is to Mpeiid his spare hours nnd alLof bin hours are spare In the flash uptown restau rants aud night clubs. He spends his money freely, la an excellent dnucer, can sing a good song well and talks astir. Uo marks dawn foolish' worn' en who wear too many Jewels or spend too much money. Then he gets acquainted ac-quainted with them. "He never turns a trick hlmsolf," said tho thief. "Always he has per- feet alibi. lie Just geta the news and passes. It on to us." I , ( Na Hint f Claw. Not long ago there was a Jewel robbery rob-bery which occupied for a few days a prominent place on New Yark's flrst pages. A woman had been held up on I her return to her homo late at night and her Jcwuls tuken from her. The , police haven't a hint of a clew as yet, though It Is said tho men who turned the trick aro well known. I - Sometimes the scout' for the thieves Is a sort of an undorbred Unfiles. , The original Haftles of Action did not rob his fftondg nml was courageous I enough to do the robbing In person. ' Tho contemptible Unfiles of today hangs on tho other edge of Broadway's night Society and Is paid a commission oil th fence value of the loot procured pro-cured through his connivance. Th . II in Mil hill Gets Acquainted With Than. thief said that moat scontv f this kind have soma sort of an accusation accusa-tion which accounts for their time during the day ajd a working understanding under-standing with aotno gong of thieves. Ho, prefers to work with men of tills sort, ho said. They do not turn up as many Jobs as do the restaurant scouts, but their Jobs are safer nnd more lucrntlyo. Thoy know their wny about tho houses to bo robbed and uiunlly aro familiar. with the habits of tho person to bo robbed. "I know grafters that could llvo easy for llfd on tho money thoy hnvo mado In tho past year," wild tlio thief. |