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Show European Thieves Go In for Large Seals Theft A man brought up at Chester assizes as-sizes for stealing baggage was charged with no fewer than 77 different differ-ent thefts, all committed since h had last come out of prison about eight mouths earlier. The value of the stolen goods was put at 1,300. This is by no means a record. Recently Re-cently a German named Peter Flink, who was sentenced at Cologne to eight years' penal servitude confessed con-fessed to 4:55 separate thefts In on year, the value of the goods being 3,4150. In Paris a man named Foerschler was arrested and charged with thre burglaries, lie burst out laughing. "Three burglaries. 1 have broken Into -50 houses since my last birthday," birth-day," he said, and by all accounts tills boast seems to hnve been a true one. Another Frenchman, Joseph Chicot, Chi-cot, was a thief for five years before he was detecled. "I have committed a burglary almost al-most every night for the past five years, except on Saturdays," Chicot said when arrested. He bad kept a diary with a careful care-ful record of some l,.r00 crimes. The value of the stolen goods was noted In every case, and the total exceeded ex-ceeded 20.000 (close to $100,000), according ac-cording to Pearson's Weekly, London i |