The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-15
NEW YORK POLICE SEEK TO
SUPPRESS SCHOOLS OF CRIME
Hundreds of Boys Found to Be Prey of Experienced Thieves, Who
Z. Teach Children to Rob sho ppers - Organized Quintets of
NLookouts," "stalls" and "Pi ckers" Operate Together.

mark" and the mark" with few excep-
tons. is a woman. She is looking into the
window OF a dry goods store, perhaps ad-
m maIkig, the s,st. latest TSa style IN eapel,sshair
Of his knee. has assigned the. ~'stalIs'' to
mark"
COMEDY OF CRooKEDNEss.
Then the modus .operandi and the &C.
companying dialogue are something like
this.
Stall No. 1: "say. Mugsy. that's a peach
Of a browne dress in the windey."
Stall No. 2: Jaw. say now. you must be
plum nutty. What we're givin' US? That's
a black dress sure. I'm goin' to buy one
for mi goil."
Stall No. /: Come of now. That's
brown. I've got a cousin what's win
dey dresser" ~
Stall No. 2: Jaw. say, IT'S a black one.
I'll leave it to the loidy. Isn't that a
black one. loidy?"
The Mark dnterested): mo. little boy;
that is a brown dress"
stall No, I: Well. if the loidy says so
1tS all right. It's cut on the bias"
Inc Mark:moh what do you know about
Stall No. 1: Nothing. loidy-
The Mark; %G9Godnes gracious! why.
- POShSe-booh 40 sOLe II must nave
been those boys! oh, no; it couldn't have
been! They're such interesting little dears.
l wonde why they ran away"
What happened was in accordance with
chief instructor.
The stalls diverted the attention. of
the mark while the picker" slipped
up behind her, opened the. chatelaine bag
with it.
The stalls kept themselves Informed
of the lay of the a n by means of the
looked.
The mark might have seen, too. IL she
had been interested less in the, naive and
simple ways OF her new acquaintance
street gave notice Of danger BY means of
an elaborate signal code. They usually
stand with their backs to the street, gag
ing into the store windows, which serve
as mirrors.
WORK OF THE LOOKOUT.
If a lookout raises his right hand to his
head it means there is danger: go NORTH"
and a hand at left side Of the hat sig
miles go SOUTH
If the hats are removed suddenly the
stalls may understand that they are to
run as fast as they can up or down the
street. as the right or left hand is used in
removing the hats of the lookouts.
Two lookouts work together, as two
pairs Of eyes are more than twice as oooa
as one pair. OWN
As soon as the ..swag'' is obtained ~ 10
turned over Immediately to the head ,oots
out, or instructor. For every pockethonk
the boys get 10 cents apiece, frrespectiye
of its value.
This is a small amount, but the appren-
tees are only too glad Of the onnortnnitv
of being trained in Hensy's SUFFOLK street
school.
IN No ,s p=0skstpG saa is :, kept s. It, content,
most convenient sewer opening -
Pocketbooks are dangerous things IN
have in ones possession, in the Opinion
Of these masters Of thievery. ~
Watches are obtained in this w.v ,.-
women now carry not only money
but timepieces in their ''doughbaTs" IT,
watches vat es are ne,x usually mhayy beaten up for old
exceptionally good are they pawnedN Ae
The risk OF the stalls" and the :.n,cl-
err. is lessened by their swiftly passne
tner pooty 10 d9okluts," n one look
his partner. we "
Roundsman Horrigan and Policeman
Fleming made important arrests which
guard. although the arrests did NOT re-.
suit in successful prosecution.
Aorrigan was walking, in Sixth avenue,
dear s Sf tse nus S,eeet 10, looking for viola
zened little boy wiggled in front Of him |
and looked up into his face. There Was
his suspicion. "
He declares that he saw the boy Joined
by two others; who before his eyes robbed
approved manner. Horrigan also detecfed
A signaling, of the lookouts. He grabbed |
of the boys. Harry Baron and Reuben |
KovaL.
koyal was the boy who first sttra,,ed |
the roundsman's attention. Fleming cap-
tured youth named Charles Nishoiaa ]