Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-04

| liberty. The largest amount ever secured b, l pickpooket was secured about eight year 1 ago when the editor of morning newspape | was robbed of twelve thousand dollars in un l registered government bonds while he was at tending meeting at the Academy of Music Pickpockets who "work" the dry goodi l stores are knewn as ''satohep openers. No | 1907 in the gallery is known as Mollie Hoy She was in the habit of entering crowded dry goods stores, wearing heavy shawl ol 1 long cloak, under which she would open wo mems retioules help herself to the con. l tents of their pockets with much impartiali- ty. She was finally detected by floor walk CT in Maeys, and when he informed her that her tricks were discovered she assaulted him and came near killing him. Kate Ryan, who appears in the next row in the gallery and is numbered 1885, devotes herself to the mar- kets. No. 426 490 and 709 are what are known as f'street-oar thieves" They have a pleasant custom of entering crowded car, and watching 6 well appearing man, they
 find out where he keeps his money and then manage to crowd against him and knock his hat over his eyes. While the intended vic-. tim is using profane language and adjusting his headgear the pickpocket succeeds in res lieving him of his valuables. Then there are stage pickpockets, who are always very who flourish in the summer time. They as- semble the necessary crowd by crying "A man overheard"
 There is a prevalent belief, especially among those who have found watchless watch chains dangling from their waistcoats, that piekpookets use nippers to break the chains or rings of watches. As & matter of fact they use nothing of the kind, detaohing the watch from the chain quite efectually by sharp tug and twist of the fingers. Among the sma1test of these thieves is fEBil1y" Per ", who steals nothing but gold watches. A queer pair are Funeral Wells'' and his wife, and ''Billy" Burnit and his consort somewhat resemble them. The latter are numbered in the gallery as Nos. 167 and 16S, and it is their practice to divide the work between them. The men are always in attendance at fashionable funerals and the women at wed- dings.
 There is Chinaman also who poses as a person of consequence in the gallery. He is Quimbo Appo, the son of Chinese murder CT, who finally killed himself in his cell Then there is ''Shang' Campbell, who from being a pickpocket became 8 masked bur glar, and Elizabeth Irving, who induced man to accompany her into an Elizabeth street lodging house, and after robbing him endeavored to poison him. Another notable pickpoeket in the gallery is Jeremiah Shea, No. ], 1,527, who, when he was convicted of pocket-picking, assaulted District Attorney McKeon and seriously injured him. But perhaps the rogue who arouses the greatest luIoTeSb III tlS IS NO. OUU, 1QOInaS Wiley, who was sent to the Kings county penitentiary, and while there succeeded in chopping two fingers off his right hand while endeavoring to injure the shoe machine so that he would not have to work at it. When he was discharged from prison he had the assurance to sue the contractor for dam ages done to him while working st the shoe machine. He did not win the suit
 Notwithstanding the assurance of the po- lice that there are no schools for pickpock- cts in this city, there are unquestionably several Fagins in town. A short time ago there was an Egyptian who kept candy stand at Twenty-third street and Broadway who had no fewer than thirteen boys under his direction engaged in pocket picking. He was finally captured by the police, and in his stand were found fully one hundred dol lars worth of silk pocket-handkerchiefs which his pupils had stolen. There are now, according to the estimate of a well-known police official, not less than fifteen hundred pickpockets in this city in active practice.