The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-12-13

A4H A9V sA6 IS A~
tho ground. He docs this, OF course, and
Lists the leather go in event Of being taken.
He will drop the wallet - he and the officer
are walking along. In b dark its easy.
Just drop the stuff INC walk over it. I've
walked over hundreds in my time. Where
Detectives make a mistake IL in not search
ing men rs soon as they grab EN-.
Sometimes thieves get reckless, and will
turn q trick for fun n just to demon
strate how smart they are. saw q man
once in the seat ahead Of me on the train
who put his pocketbook in his hip pocket
after he paid his fare. just to show Whist
l could do l waited until he sat dosing In
his seat. Then I began to push on the q
of the car seat with ore knee, and as fast
a. l raised the seat back held it by
wedging my other foot in between 1t and
the bottom of the seat. l lay back aud
pretended to sleep all this time myself, and
l worked SO slowly and 50 steadily that my
friend never awoke at all. When l had the
back of the seat raised 80 high that could
make the trip | reached under and took
the pocketbook. 1t took forty-fve minutes
to get this pocketbook. and there wasn't
anything in it then. but the people with
me thought it was n great feat.
HOW A G Is PICKED.
''Thieves never take q silver watch. 1t
is not valuable enough. In getting watches
the man who does the work stands still
with his back to the party wanted. This
sort of work will occur on race tracks aud
at n place where crowd are standing.
The stalls get behind the victim, and
commence crowding until one way and an-
other they get the gentleman square
against the left shoulder of the pickpocket.
On his left arm he carries . duster or shawl
as a cover and when the victim is I'll
placed the p~ickpocket goes through him
with his right hand, reaching across him
self to do the feat, covering bis right arm
and hand from sight with the duster on
his left and looking steadily the other way
all the time.
1.-THE man who liz robbed never sees the
face of the mar who takes his watch at all,
and this lisa great point in case he makesa
roar. As u rule I never take the chain.
They are mostly plated, and there's moth
ing in them. 1t is easier and quicker to
take the watch alone. Tho rings are only
sprung into the watch stem, not riveted,
and US you take the watch you can twist
the ring free from the watch n chain by
an easy effort of the thumb and fore
finger. You don't drop the ring; you bring
watch and ring both. hut separate from
each other.
Sometimes = very ticklish thing oc-
ours. I get hold Of a watch that opens
easy and spring it open before / know It.
OF course I've got to let it remain that
way. Shutting the case is clean out OF the
question. Closing 2 watch case undes
those circumstances makes . noise like .
gun.
"You cannot protect yourself from .
sS~l-n~1>k ~ nnu nA 0nuth5nO vnvp
have on but a ring from your finger. Your
Din is his every time; 80 Il your watch, and
tailor never made y pocket he cannot ex-
plore as thoroughly as If he took a lantern.
ENTERTAINING FRIENDS.
II was talking with y gentleman one
day Is 1 am with you, and he called my At
tention to an emerald stone Of great value
which he wore in his scarf.
"I should Judge it was,' l said; but I
don't know much about emeralds. Apure
one, I hear, 10 worth as much - q diamond.
ESQ it u.s. he replied; you would rather
like this one wear, woaldn't your and ct
that he laughed q IL hesupposedI couldn't
look on anything without wanting to
steal it.
aid; they bring bad luck. II I wanted it
I'd take it,
"'You couldn't get II. Its fasseninss ars
harder to yet at than you think
1--WE lot the matter drop, and talked Of
something else. Something, ~ No talked,
rot into my eye md panied me greatly
eyelash, I guess. was in great pain, and
he volunteered 70 get it out. he worked
about ten seconds, and then ! winked and
declared the eye all right. A. he stepped
back I handed him his emerald that hs
thought no one could get. He was very
much astonished, but didn't say much.
could SEQ that It destroyed his faith in
those complex ~fastenings, though.
"Another time Robert A. Davidson and
Judge Adams had been defending some Of
the family and got them clear, and We
were giving them q little supper among
other things by way Of celebration. Talk
turned on thieves and their work, and both
Davidson and Adams, like every man on
earth, thought 1t impossible to plumber
them. You could rob other men, but they
were altogether too keenly sensitive. They
would know the minute . thief got within
q block of 'em, to hear 'em tell it. While
| tho talk wa going ON the boys robbed
them Of everything they had, oven their
eyeglasses. OF course We gave the stun
back.
"Well, 1 can't be with you always" he
said. Unjust Co." -
A. he shook hands at parting he lett my
own pin in my hand. He hsd tAkmt
from my scarf while We were talking. Tbs
pickpocket was "llollie Matches kan
sxs City Times.
Ansrieas nsnsy In 1rslaaA.
I IVES looking over Queenstown and .
native pointed me to tho spleDded cathe-
dral: "Built by American money The
amount Of money that comes into Ireland
from the United States y uncounted,sb hat
It would foot up enormously. The fact 4
that the loss to Amesics by Engltsh nis-
rule II ireland u beyond computAssoa.-
Coz. lewiston journal.