The evening times., 1896-05-25
LOOKING OUT FORCR0OKS
Pickpocks's Are Expected During
Christian EndeayOr Convention.
WORK OF NOTED THIEVES
Interesting Stories Told at Detective
Hendquarters-we ell known Crimi-
ed To Visit Washington in July.
Slickest Workers in the business.

III July Washington Will De crowded
by thousands OF Christian EDdcavorcrs.
These Christian people Will come to pro-
mote good, and it may be painful for them
TO know that in the gathering OF their clans
they also advance evil.
Great gatherings, like big cities, breed
crime. Already in large cities like New
York, Chicago and Boston those light
fingered chevaliers d'industric, the pick
pockets, are contemplating the fair fields
opened up to them by tie enormous MASSES
that Will attend the convention.
Their depravity and rcpugna nee for
morality and honesty may give them an
especial pleasure IN preying on the pocket
books OF the Endcavorers, who are trying
TO make the world better.
They will be here from all parts OF the
United States, and, indeed, from the other
side,'' remarked Detective Ned Weldon
yesterday in reference to the crooks.
The Dest-if such a word can be used
in the business he continued, are the
English, men and women alike. People
suspect them the least because OF a refine
ment and gentiliiy, not, as Il rule, pos
sessed by the American crook
"sLEEPY TOMS" WORK.
Il remember one fellow, especially, Tom
-urzon. He was familiar to the police as
Sleepy Tom because of his dropping eye
ids, giving him a languid air. What a
dresser he was! Nothing loud and pro-
hounced, not a bit of it. Toms was the
exclusive style of a swell clubman or some
member of society's inner circle, and il
was just those kind OF people that he
worked.
Tom got too confident, and was caught
one day with his fingers in a gentlemans
pocket in search of a roll. For this little
diversion he went away for five years
DO you remember The Filer' asked
Ed. Horne. II was at headquarters, and
the men Were discussing the merits of
different thieves. That little Irish
Canadian, Jack GhOok, the slickest worker
l ever met. Nobody could pass a leather
quicker than Jack. 1t never got hot in
his hands and for that reason he always
had good people to work with him
VERY often the man who does the lift
ing, if he is clumsy in passing the stuff,
betra ysnot only himself but his pals That
was something Jack was never guilty of.
Jacks Unfortunate appetite for rum
got him in trouble. He was on a Jag and
foolishly tried to work. No clever thief
ever CRAFTS when he is drunk, unless he
is crazy, and Jack must have been that the
day he tried 20 lift drummcr's watch at a
railway sta tion.
THE BURGLAR CAUGHT.
HE bungled frightfully, got his fingers
lltanglei up in the cha in and tn drummer
dropped to him in a second. He grabbed
Jack by the collar and yelled like stuck
pig for the police. Now little Queen street
IN Queenstown mourns her brightest citizen,
for he is st i'll doing time
Another gentleman suffering from digit
anal paresis whom the detective spoke Of
admiringly as a clever worker, is young
man from the West, whose alias appears
on the back of his photographs at police
as Pretty jimmy He is
a noted pickpocket. and often boasted that
he had unbuttoned mans top and under
coats, got the pocketbook, and then rehut-
Joned the coats.
Jimmy used to do this on rare occasions
as a matter of professional pride. II may
be some satisfaction for the public to know
that his beauty adons, temporarily, a large
and commodious hotel in Joliet, H., where
clothes of the latest Scotch bar weave are
furnished free to guests, including a shave
and hair cut. He was caught by Weedon
and Horne Just as he stepped off the train
at the last Inauguration.
JIAiMY'S HEART WAS BROKEN.
.'While we were waiting for the wagon
to convey Jimmy to headquarters said
Horne, "a train from the West arrived.
uscrowdofpeople sursed through
the gates, blocked up the Seventh-street en-
trance and fairly filled the depot Jimmy
nearly wept. when he SIw the hUstlnr
tRrOng of humanity.
:" Great Lord, he groaned, look at that |
gang of jays. Just think of the graftthere
if you cops hadn't punched me- :"
Jimmy was sent back to Chicago, where |
he was so badly wanted. He is one of the |
few crooks who are fond of being photo
graphed, andis always anxious that the pho |
tographcr do him justice. He is not one of |
the thieves who have tn be given the thirty |
second degree before picture can be AIKEN |
Of them.
The police expect a large number of pick
pockets at the convention, and the men at |
headquarters, in casual way, take a look
over the rogues' gallery every no W and then
to refresh their memories as to the faces of
some of the thieves.