The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-21
MANY ALIASES AND FEW MORE ASSETS George Raymond Tells How
 Pockets Are Picked DETECTIVES PICKED HIM He Has Been "Pinched" In Half a Dozen Different Towns and Has
 Ills Picture In Many
 Rogues' Galleries.
DETECTIVES PICKED HIM

George Raymond, with half a dozen aliases attached to his name and his pie ture in half a dozen rogues' galleries, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Detectives Patton, Bodel1er and Hamilton on suspicion of having picked pocket or two in Birmingham, and is now being held until the authorities in Fl Paso can telegraph whether they want him for touching a roll of $9OO
 Raymond would easily be taken for Boston clothing drummer so well groom ed is he. He has at a glance good face, but one which shows that he is thorough ly acquainted with the world. It hardens the longer one studies 1t.
 No prisoner ever took his arrest in Q more philosophical manner. In a quiet. low voice he answered all the questions put to him by the officers, and he told them some new things about the way to get a roll, touch a pocket and 'carry a gang" He knows every pickpocket of any ability in the country, and has been at 1t himself since he was 15 years old He is now more than 90.
 Big Touch.
 Raymond says he has made a touch for $500 in one wallet but that those are not frequent.
 Tn New York" he said, Eve can size a man up a block away and decide whether or not to lift his ticker. If the chain looks heavy and solid. we take a shot at the watch, but we never take one that is not the real goods. If the case of watch is plable it's real goods and we lift 1t. If not, whats the use in making the touch.
 Why don't settle down and behavef I can't make enough. What would I do with $15 a week. l love to spend that much a day. I can't make it honest. Its easy enough to slip into a mans pocket anl take 1t out.
 How do we put our hand in a man 8 pocket to get his purse? We don't. Just slip two fingers inside, catch hold of the lining srd pull 1t out. The roll Is bound to come, too. It's just as easy to pincn a watch or a stud. We never take a watch without the chain. How? Why, unbutton the vest. slip the guard through the but tonhole sne lift the watch out grad uady. Nothing easitr.
 "It's jus. as simple to get the stud. Un- screw it Just as easy as the man screwed it fin the shirt. Sometimes they hang ana won't come out. out not often. My bi < best touch? We'll, about $1S00'
 The detectives found Raymcnds pie ture in the different papers showing ike nesses of men arrested. He was arrested
 
 ruary 1, 1904; as Edward Loftus, Hot Springs. November 1S, 1903; as James Moore. Oklahoma City, February IT, 1918; New Orleans, as James Moore, 1899; and as Edward Loftus Los Angeles, in Mo- vemler, 1902.
 Walkers Money.
 W. A. Walker, who lives in Lee county, reported to the police yesterday that the previous night he was taken from tre F'orerce hotel, carried to Sixteenth street and Second avenue, hit on the head and robbed of what was left of $l75 after he lad bought a suit of clothi1g a few collars, shirts, hat and bet a few times cn a game of pool in the Florence. The detectives doubt a portion of the story, as they discovered that Walker ran into man and received the blow in the face from his fist, after Walker had cursed him. Raymond and a locni man were taken to the office of Chief Wier in connection with the disappear anoe of Walkers money, but they are not believed to be guilty. The detectives then recognized Raymond and held him, but turned the local man loose.