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Show European Thieves Go In for Large Scale Theft A man brought up nt Chester assizes as-sizes for stealing baggage whs charged with no fewer than 77 different differ-ent thefts, all commuted since ha had last come cut of prison about eight months earlier. The value of the stolen goods wns put nt 1,300. TIi i s Is by no means a record. Recently Re-cently a German named Peter Fllnk, who was sentenced nt Cologne to eight years' peoal servitude confessed con-fessed to 4!j separate thefts In one year, the value of the goods being 3,400. In 1'aris a n:.".'i named Foerschler was arrested and charged with three burglaries. He burst out laughing. "Three burglaries. 1 have broken into ".Hi houses since my last birthday," birth-day," he said, nnd by nil accounts this boast seems to have been a true one. Another Frenchman, Joseph Chicot, Chi-cot, was a thief for live years before he was detected. "I have committed a burglary almost al-most every night for the past live years, except on Saturdays," Chicot said when arrested. He had kept a diary with a careful care-ful record of some 1,500 crimes. The value of the stolen goods was noted In every case, nnd the total exceeded ex-ceeded O1.000 (close to $100,000), according ac-cording to 1'earson's Weekly, London |