Show I 1 A LONDON CRIMINAL THE FOCI THIEF AND HOW ht PLIES HIS PECULIAR be arl bouer inglis la lia be cis hialit the ik Tilt Carrie gsg OK got bl Pl eid ire from tu u d ota cab ill 44 1 ties tk D giu thousands ot thieves toes bog tor for fog fo with a great longing incredible as it bay IDLY seem property worth ten ot of thou andio pounds Is every yew year stolen from vaai vans acl and lorries alone la in london recta streets quite tenths of this property disappears during togs the th leads leade I 1 ot of the tb fog to thief rug dually usually hive have lome some little capital to start with one ot them affect affects to 4 a i cartage contractor on a small mils vals n take takes tery very quiet premises prem tie that hate have a high boarding round and that tra w not over overlooked lookA if it he h bu bat plenty of tel cellarage larage all thi the bitter ai ha has at lent at an ou smart trap and hon horse and two and sometimes three ropes to go 90 with it 1 S I it etli 14 durl g the tb late tossy foggy and ad early evenings ot of winter that the tb hauls are on made street streets with wet ware M houses and not shops hop that an are lighted brilliantly and early on each ild side and that an are odea often congested with traffic are ar mostly chonen chosen the small and mart smart though dingy and fp conspicuous loo ilD trap plunges into the thick of the th traffic it loon low in the gloom loom and murk place places iciek atme if immediately behind a tan van or lorry piled plied with witz of v arlous kloda kindl the men in the quick trap a are to ill in on the alert one on of the a man chosen tor for his hi irmease physical strength pea to to the tb held bead of the pony ou on lom some pro pr tel he II 11 loon soon aai has a package down from the tin van in front he li to provided with hup sharp cutting instruments and nd he be hii has a powerful piece of trap strap with a look book at one on end it there li Is a boy sit it ini tint behind th ran the men la a tb the trap contrive to let get him down by dl di averting his bl attention even with a it view to distracting the possible atten tiou ot of carten carters the thieves generally eoe rally get op up an altercation or barvey bani ey among themselves or with athens T they are men of colossal impudence ind end powen powers of abuse and all attention becomes riveted upon baem in one cil case not far from Farr farrington ingdon street lot last december they carried off one on pared parcel of fun turn worth 1700 TOO the van boy being temporarily blinded aa alleged all eced r by y a tad lid with the thieves blowing aiom 0 me noff snug into his hi tac fact from a pea hooter shooter and then disappearing on one of the m mt mst st notorious notor ioui of these the fog to thieves was wa ft 4 lithe youn young fellow who crept alone along the tb back of a pony to ita its bead american jockey fashion I 1 and hooked what be he could from out 0 ot the van you in front th the ireat great hauls of these men at an when they follow cab cabs and private car biages from a railway tattoo station la in inch such caie cases they generally oil use two trips and horses A cab la Is marked that bai has apparently patently ly valuable luggage on the top this la to followed till cm some dark street it Is leathed where the th way wily la to narrow air of congested conf cited then the driver of one on of the th trap that has ha a I very swift pony harnessed harne sed to it deliberately dellbert ely drives across the tb bead of the th cab or carriage bone hors of coune course there ti to an a angry alterici uon tion ind and while tbt this ti to going on the thieves on the other trap barj lim pt ot jinto into the th immediate rear of the tb luggage la is da den vehicle on out of the thieves goes oe silent iid bli his bone horse a buk back and lifts the lot lu gage afe down one on of the tb hauls affected lut last winter in this way was w worth 18 ud and was the property of mr mir do d alya to an cida millionaire th the robbery took place not tu far from BL 81 pancras church jut lust before the th hope shape were lighted dp yap As A the summer son ua broc wage tam cit of living creature crea toree so doi does a thames tog fog bring out upon ur the dark and ad apparently deserted riter river a tilt vast horde of thieves tTe at lent least a bosel et of the tb whirl wharf and lighter 10 of t losing from their respective wharves as much as from sat on to sit hundred pounds worth of coal alone atry every sw last the ib reader cia can learn at liny lay alter ids id house frequented by tugboat men tbt that there ut art geores literally scores of tugs tu on an the river that bt bar 1171 bought ft a pennyworth of coal for creat peat number numbers of year years the tb themes police would tell that mm memo reader that meo meg bat have retired on 01 competence who tm have ben been reported to bar have made mods their whole fortune out of coal stolen with im pill ally on the river the police are helpless bel over the rut vast expense of river and la in the labyrinth ine do it they mid aoe no of the pirate boats la in the gloom loom aad and dark egg the poll spoil li to tarncy out to the bottom of the river in a trice if it this so tort rt of thine thing can coin be done to inch such in so extent w th h a commodity like coal I 1 it may be imagined what befalls other valuable Talu able property on wharves or lo 10 lighter the fraudulent picker up of tin tie riter river blesses the for to the picker UP p to 1 a maa man who notice notices that cc cerula r toda baric barges with valuable cargoes an are moored ed la in uch such a 1 way that it they broke loose they would entail rut vast expense the alc plc er up sees e that these barges do break loosed that pan part of life bt work be doe does la in dead ziret and then mik mak ing plenty of nolle about it at thin stage its rescue from dancer the tery teri barges that he has ha let set adrift arld senas la in a hey beavy salvage 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