Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-22

A real Fagin, who like Dickens
character, made specially OF framing
boys to steal, has just been discovered
in New York. and with his discovery
has come a food of information con-
corning his habits and methods which
show them to have been as repuisiNely
interesting as those Of his prototype
Of fiction Stein. The real Fagin,
taught pocket picking in his school
which numbered nearly a hundred
pupils. from which boys We're
regularly graduated when they showed
the required amount of proticichcy as
dips" or pickpockets.
The training was not theoretical either,
for in school whcn 1t was ra!dGd was
found Il complete equipment for the edu-
cation of pupils" There we're coats
hanging on dummies in which bells Were
concealed, and wo" to the lad who bum
gl,d his work ami tangled one 81 ti!cSt
Signals. Various othcr dummies fur
nish"d varied training and as ,h" boys
grew more proficient they pracuccd on
stem or among themselves. Fourteen
year Old Ilyman GrosSlnan, WI" alter DC,
ing arrested gave information which lcd
10 the discovery OF STEMS school, pos!
III it's star pupil. II was de only one q"
boss would let work wild him on d"
street he said boIstinSlY: Ihrcf or
four times Il day constituted his work on
the streets with Stein, his rate OF pay br-
ing 10 cent, for each watch and /, cents
for each purse captured. Alter lhlS ~
h.. naiI ely admitted he generally put III
Il few hours on his own hook
with the paying off " election Lets the
list ,iIici:u transaction Of the campaign
is cloSCd. Tie big black safe III th,'
Hoffman House yawned wide this week
for the annual dough day ana me
$3.50 90 locked up in it for weeks pcndliiS
election was distributed to those VII"
backed Mir Hughes The amount in Tn"
safe which Is annually made il repository
fer such money r"ir . ,. , E,,i' , ' Y.,
wh,u tlc money total. however, was one
third less. This fall bets were Tor cor
siderable amounts while ldSl %';ir llrf"
were mauv OF 81, ami SIC. Iht ltm=h.:i-
ij,lrst l,ts w,.rc made At odds All thu
MA. from to | to to |, ana me nets
~ IIuehrs' plurality rim Z. III w ~" WIZ ,hS
highest. There, was Il general air of
rh,.r rf,lInc::s ;.rparrrt al during til" dis
trilul;Gu u the twu-thi,t@ OF Il million
dollars. chiefly PERHAPS because tii'
r,,,!.d VAS made W. of Winn' -. ON"
riIn ,yl,..l asked what H. expected t" do
wi1h thr rcll he he'd won announced that
H.. intended IT, found " society Tor the
eI;D,,r-ssirn ct election betting.
.t.,y York stands helpless; h"for" III" oc-
tuur: Iirr last d"fcnG'r Is some aud tn
W.. W. u stands VII, 10 10 lis it Will ~
l.,,l, tiI,t j.. the ul:A."n which prr.ail'i
in many quarters hrrc vim 4 YIN
learned that Thomas ~ Lawson '!''i II
a simple fractional TRANSACTION ,"r"in1
thc PROPERTY # til" Standard on Com
pany The general ;'l,rr@h'l'si"n n III,
bccl, somewhat relieved, h"W.Trr, b% In, I'M
announcement that it was not III" aitn'f
nf ..Er.nZied Finance" but instead the
gigantic seven nastrd schooner hAl.t
after him which had been ;iclu rrh by ;he
trust; Pint MANY Sc ~ IN" traAsardi.h
dire hints of what may toilcW: rms
r.l,n.iior like 80 many "th'r Shi"F hnll
| in Nov England ON tie c""f."ra tiV" ''l2n
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