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pis e ss where tbe pickpocket la always looking for plunder, «nd a “mob" Of four will often work toother in such .a crowd. A prosperous looking victim I I »■ - is selected, and as be attempts to Tricky or Brutal and Vicious. Ao* board tbe car the four quickly sur round him, with the “artist’* behind. cording to Their Class. The confederate In front uses every • _ subterfuge to block the progress of the victim until tbe coup has been brought METHODS OF THE “GUN MOB” off, and while the men on each side hem him in and distract bis attention f “ with their bustliug the man behind The False Arm Game and the Use of helps himself from his pockets. It is the Pocketleeo Overcoat—The Pipe a trick which rarely falls with cool, ex •nd Red Pepper Trick—How • Gang pert thieves, although amateurs at the I Will Pluck a Victim In a Crowd. game are often caught through lack of nerve aud quickness. “Gun mob" is simply English thieves* The "stall" or confederate will not •lang for a pickpocket and bls gang of allow any one who has been chosen for confederate«—“gentlemen” who reap a victim to change bis position until a an annual harvest of anything they peculiar cluck tells him the trick has can lay their hands upou in a crowd. been accomplished or uuless there has Summer time, when race courses, ath been an alarm from an outside source. letic grouuds and seaside places are When more than one “stall" is used crowded. is the pickpocket's favorite the other men devote part of their at and most profitable Reason, and when tention to watching any of the passen gers who may be inclined to suspect an event occurs like a royal gardeu mischief, aud with their boot toe in party at Windsor the light fingered close proximity to that of tbe “tool" ; gentry positively chuckle. they can couvey a danger signal with Twenty plain clothes detectives at out fear of attracting the least atten tended the last garden party to pro tion. When such a signal reaches the i tect his majesty's guests from the i I “tool” he will desist In his attempt at tricks of the pickpockets, but the latter I plunder, and, though be bas never left Windsor richer by hundreds of turned his head to see who prevented pounds in spite of Scotland Yard and larceny, he will completely lull the carried away with them the gold suspicions of the same individual by hunter watches of several of the titled his manner thereafter. Generally speaking, the profits Of guests. At one time .the modern detective pickpocketing are not worth the risk, ■Was apt to despise the pickpocket Occasionally thieves make a good somewhat, characterizing him as a low haul, as in the case of the king’s gar and not particularly clever thief. His den party already alluded to, but often ingenuity, daring and coolness today, great risk is run to secure a man's however, "compel our admiration,” to pocketbook, for instance, only to find 1 " r filled with cards and quote one of the cleverest detectives, that It is simply “and we feel pleased when we lay memoranda. i Hard cash is what the pickpocket one of them by the heels.” The British pickpocket's tricks are like« to secure, For Jewelry he can many and various, and he is adding to only get about one-half of what it Is their number every day. The false worth from the fence, while for watch arm game is one of the cleverest and es he rarely gets more than one-foorth Is calculated to deceive a detective, Consequently the professional pick even although be may have his eye« I ( pocket must be Industrious to earn a on the operator. A coat is thrown livelihood.—St. Ix>uis Globe-Democrat. ________________ I loosely over a false arm, which la held Dandyism Which We Adfnire. aaturally. Apparently both of the One is sorry for the dandle« of our pickpocket's bands are in view, while in reality the skillful fingers of one ' day. because, though their clothe« fit hand are going through the pockets of ' ever so well and are ever so fresh, cus tom prescribes a dark or subfusk hue, the man beside him. The use of the ¡•ocketless overcoat, or with no iace. no velvet (above all. not the cape coat, which make« an entire on coat collars), no slashes. puffs and cover for the bands, is an old dodge, I vandyklngs. no peark and gold, no .which nevertheless is still popular gules and azure. The coni mon trousers I ,witb the pickpocket He often pre are shapeless things, and for perfection ! fers, however, to nse a novel in ven- ' you need two pairs every day. Genius tlon known as the sash method. The Is stunted, display is checked, and, •ash consists of a piece of black silk though you may wear brilliant boae or alpaca two yards long and three with knickerbockers in the country, quarters wide. It is folded the same glorious waistcoats are rarely seen ex as a neck scarf and crossed centrally , cept In the windows of tailors' shops at beneath the coat and vest, both ends Oxford and Cambridge. The dandy being brought under the arms and can only cultivate Immaculate neatness placed in the hip pockets of the trou and perfection of fit Our officers at sers. When ready for action the “tool," Ladysmith when the place was re as the man is called who actually lieved looked like skeletons, but were picks the pocket, places his hands be as spruce and neat. I have been told, hind the folds of this device, and It as ever they ahowed in the park. They enables him to conceal bis purpose as cultivated Belf respect, like Stendhal, he “fronts" a man to rob him of bls . the celebrated noveliat. who was said watch or money if the latter is in bis to have been the only man that shaved trousers pocket i ever/ day in the dreadful winter re ▲ “tool,” however, has other means ♦ treat from Moscow. This Is the dandy of covering his hands without resort ism which we admire, the perfection ing to the aid of coat or sash. A t of personal self respect exhibited In newspaper or theater programme is Julius Caesar. Claverbouse, and Mont often used. Beware of looking over rose, combing his lovelocks, like the a stranger’s shoulder to glance at a Three hundred of Thermopylae, on the ' newspaper or programme—a little ac morning of his shameful death. He tion we are often guilty of when it went to the gibbet “like a bridegroom only necessitates a turn of the bead. to his bride.” History, and "the You may be risking nothing, but on human heart by which we live.” bave the other band, you may be seated or an Immortal tenderness for the great standing by the side of a professional the wise, the brave, who have died pickpocket who has only to hold the dandle« as they lived, gallant hearts paper at a certain angle while you are and stately gentlemen.—Andrew Lang engrossed in some item to cover bls In Century. movements as he relieves you of your valuables. The Baby In the Sieve. The black silk handkerchief and bat Among the fellabin of Egypt, mys -qrp employed in the same manner as tic land of pyramid and mummy, no the paj>er, oniy the fQrmer is some man, not even Philip my king's own times used in the “sling method’’ to daddy, may look upon the new little "carry a supposedly crippled arm. The arrival until the seventh day. Cpon I manner in which that arm would rest that morning the baby is placed In a I against jour face, as if raised to avoid sieve and carried through the house some one striking it while the other in a procession twinkling with smiles hand took your scarfpin and watch and lighted tapers, the wicked spirits would excite compassion from the vic whose curiosity may have l>een excited by his lordship’s advent pushed Into tim himself. The pickpocket’s most dastardly trick the background of life by discreet graft —but one, be it noted, which is only of grain and salt scattered along the used by the man who is too clumsy to triumphant route. Twice the proces perform that sleight of hand upou sion pauses in solemn purpose, first to which the clever thief prides himself— shake the sieve, thus insuring—with Is that of blinding the victim with pep lusty wails no doubt—that the wee per blown through a pipe. The bowl rider shall prove a fearless man, and. of the latter is filled with a false bot second, to bold the blinking cherub up tom and second tube, the cavity below to the sun to sharpen his eyes. After the false bottom being filled with cay this be make« his first bow to the pa enne pepper, while tobacco is placed ternal presence. He is christened by above it Approaching a gentleman in I the cadi sucking a stick of sugar can an ill lighted street, the thief asks for I dy and allowing the drawn out sweet I a light for bis pipe, and while the vic new to trickle from bls moutb into the tim feels for bis matches be is sudden open sesame of the surprised young ly blinded by a discharge of cayenne ster, after which the cadi pronounces pepper, which the scoundrel blows the given name.—Lo« Angele« Times. through the bole in the bottom of the pipe into bls eyes. Maddened with the Hew the Artists’ Medal “Happens.** terrible pain, the victim presses bis Most of our models are not made; bands to his eyes, and the robber they just happen. Girls, In most cases snatches his watch and chain and de of breeding and Intelligence, want to camps. to repeat bis exploit on some make a little money for some special other unsuspecting pedestrian. occasion. Some acquaintance recog It Is not very often, however, that nises that they have distinction and the pickpocket works alone, although style and gives them the address of an women who belong to tbe light finger Illustrator who happens to ueed Just ed fraternity—and who. by the way. such a person. They pose once In this are often more successful than men— way, more or less from necessity, find usually prefer to do so. Men thieves they can make an Independent living like to work in “mobs,” for tbe simple in a congenial manner, and so come reason that they can trausfer the “hoo again. In consequence the women who die" from one to the other In a crowd. pose for n livelihood In New York are Consequently if recognized by a de exceedingly nice ns a class The prev tective and arrested on suspicion there alent Idea that the words “artists' is nothing tn their po««o'tsfon on which model” necessarily moan a highly they can be convicted. paid, greatly pettcM and utterly do Resides, confederates or “stalls," as proved Individual Is ridicti' ms in the they are called In the vc nactilar of the extreme A first <•! t ■ ■->'<■1 “profession"—are necessary to do that in New York eit' receive. i <' iy for little bit of bustling which makes tbe six hottr-t’ bird wort» \ | 'tic “tool’s" task so lunch easier and less- model lias of course a ,liff - t • r •,.> ens tbe risk of detection. sitlon. • S'he h:i< shorter finir and ■Many are doubtless aware that tram higher rate.. From "Boh - M lei' termini in busy thoroughfares run Iy Charles F f'ctors. 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