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Show PICKPOCKET8 FIND CONDITIONS HARD New York, Dec. 4. More than 100 pickpockets, unable to make a living liv-ing by following their vocation, have turned temporarily honest within the last two months and have sought work, according to records made public pub-lic today by the department of correction. cor-rection. "Old-rime pickpockets tell us," said Deputy Commissioner Lewis, "that bv rifung fifty or sixty pockets a day they can make only $15 or bo a week They used to be able to retire re-tire for a month after picking half a dozen pockets. Folks haven't been carrying money In their clothes recently re-cently "Some of the pickpockets have turned gunmen. This may account in part for the so-called crime wave. If the situation continues, all the pickpockets pick-pockets in the city probably will go out of business. " |