The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-27
ANNIE WAS A
WISE GAzAbOO
How She Frisked the Mad of
Another Very Expert
Pickpocket.

HAnnie, where art thou2' has been
the soliloquy of many good, or for
that matter bad, detective. But speak
ing of Annie, l mean Annie Piggott,
recalls trip [ made from Nome to
Seattle in the S. S. Garonne in the fall
of 1901, Annie being passenger by
the same boat said an officer of a
liner recently In port.
1.-The Garonne had about five hun
dred passengers, composed of capital
lists. mining brokers, government en-
ployes, miners, with and without the
coin; prospectors, gamblers, citizens OF
leisure, women of the demi- monde and
their consorts, piekpockets and opium
tiends-1n all very choice crowd.
Immediately after leaving Nome
the hop-eaters engaged an unused re-
frigerator, where they could enjoy the
solace of the pipe without interruption.
"Taken as a whole, they were as
wise bunch of passengers as one
would be likely to meet anywhere.
Each one passed the time of day and
smiled, but never flashed his roll
Things looked bad for Annie, who, as
the town has recently learned, is pro-
fessional dip
"Among the passengers was another
pickpocket known as The Pale-Faced
Kid He got his nickname from the
color of his complexion, which was
caused by the excessive use of Hong
kong No. l.
ssThe Kid had heard of Annie IS repu-
tation, and she being rather comedy
decided, after meditation, during which
time he inhaled about twenty pills, that
life in single harness was not what it
was cracked up to be. In pipe-dream
he found himself making love to Annie
and she flying to his open arms, and
they together sailing through life by
the air route, and only descending TO
earth when they wished to smoke, play
the bank, take a chance with the
ponies or. if necessary, make touch
Morning. came, and after the usual
breakfast of toast and weak tea, the
pasty-vlsaged Kid decided to get busy.
1t was late in the day before Annie APP
peared on deck, but the Kid was
there with the glad hand and winning
smile, and, as he expected. Annie came
back with the warm mitt. A promenade
for half an hour, an invitation to the
the ascension had begun.
cit was about 2:30 M, when on his
forty first pill, that the Kid reached
the highest elevation For several
hours he and Annie had been telling
each other their life secrets. He had
told her of the many big turns he had
made, how he had outwitted Byrnes
and other famous inside office men, and
wound up by saying that the only thing
he needed to get the money in punches
was a lady stall
Annie in her turn told the Kid of
her girlhood days, and how an act of
misplaced confidence had started her
in the business, concluding her MARIA
tive with that sympathy-creating
phrase which has cost many sucker
his wad: And that s the reason I left
home.
The Kids dream had come true.
Life to him in the future would be one
continuous round of pleasure.
The Kid made one great mistake,
however. He went to sleep in the
upper ether in which his soul was So
journing When, late in the day, he
awoke, it was to the sad discovery
that he had been touched for every
sou that he possessed, $S9 Annie Pig
gott, of course, had turned the trick,
and on one of the most expert dips
in the profesh.
"It's just as well for the Honolulu
people that Annie only came here to
see her folks, and not on a business
trip concluded the steamship officer