The evening world., 1894-05-15
TO RAID A SCHOOL OF CRIME.
Police Are Investigating a Boy
Pickpocket's Story.
Pupils Rngofsky and Mendclovitk
Held for Trial.

BERNARD Ragofsky. OF ) Allen street
and Mendel Menielovitz. OF Il Ludlow
street. aged fifteen and thirteen years
respectively. arrested Sunday afternoon
by PAX Policeman MCGEE for pickinE
pockets in the Central Park monkey.
house. were each held in $500 bail for
trial by Justice Noorhis this morning in
Yorkville Court.
Young Menielovitz says that a regular
school for the instruction OF ~pickpockets
has for years been nourishIng on the
east side. and mat Artful Dodgers are
graduated there by the dozen.
Menielovitz's mother. who was IN court
this morning. told Justice NoorhIs that
she had no knowledge OF the work the
boy was concerned in
Ragofsky Is evidently older In crime
and has learned the lesson OF silence.
Both boys as they stood before the
Justices desk, rested their hands on its
edgei The popular Idea that a slim
characteristic OF the professional pick
pocket, had ample v~erthcation In both
cases
The older boy. In particular, has a
OF. 1t is soft and slim. and the fingers
from the second joint tapered to the
nlDert-Shape1 nail.
have been moulded by the continued
wearing OF long thimbles. The police
think this by. no means Improbable.
Ragofsky's brother. Nathan. who said
he was twenty-five years old. and a
c~igar-maker. appeared in court. Nathan
said that Bernard lived with him at
, Allen street Both Of the boys pa
had brought Bernard to America two
and n half years ago.
For the first six months, he said.
Bernard lived with an uncle In Balti-
more, and two years ago came to New
York. Nathan said that Bernard was "A
peddler. and that was what he thought
he was doing during the day.
Justice Noorhis tried to make Nathan
admit that some jewelry he wore had
been given him by his younger brother.
but he denied this emphatically. de-
claring that he knew nothing of the
According to M~endelovitz's story. he
had been taught to pick pockets by Abe
Solomon. who, he said. lived In Suffolk
has been teaching boys the art OF THEY
Ing for the last four years.
Associated with Solomon. the boy said.
was barney Jubal. who lives in l.nd-
Mendelovitz. There were also one Yed-
ditch. OF Division street. near Clinton:
n young man named Tepp. and Philip
Quatsky. who acted as instructors and
~ Wv ~ buIliS wv" w 4 AZ
ticles OF value from peoples pockets.
Quatsky laid out the work for Mem
delovitz on the day the latter was ar
6ss,sai T Park hC we're e @fa aS . nsFk 1 for
the pocket-picking Industry. the boy
Central Parh was, he said: dead easy
tectives had been replaced by the gray
coated policemen.
Inspector Mclaughlin said this morn
niies thH , ss had ,1 not h 1ssndcs ss1us the the
would investigate the story. He was
inclined to think. however. that this
lad had been romancing
station. in whose precinct the alleged
Fagins live. according TO Mendeiovitz.
started, out this morning with Detec-
, Hves m sna harmed an 4 H hey could ID e. ss' fonn n
No arrests had been made up to moor
to-day.
Park Policeman MCGEE caught another
aged twenty-four. who said he la a
walter out OF work. and lives at 2+S
West Twenty-se"enth street. He was
found plying his vocation in the tiger
house.
At 40 o'clock In the afternoon one OF
the tigers had n ut and a crowd gathered
emit was Mrs, Ma Copper, OF 100 Sew
enth avenue. . re. saw McCirath's
hand In her dres' pocket and caught
hold OF his arm before he had time to
withdraw 1t. He was he for trial in
$500.
\ young pickpocket was held for trial
by Justice Koch. in Essex Market Court
to-day. He is Nathan Hauzer, sixteen
years old. OF AZ Rodney street. Brook
Ign He ls said to have stolen a silver
watch from Abraham Lipstein, OF lil
stanton street, while the latter was
looking In a Norfolk street show win
dow 1nGnnh SnnTnr fNVplvn NaaFq old
witnessed the theft and caused the ar
rest of ZauZer.