Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-12

York side of the East river bridge. The
roll contained about $500. 1t was a
wallet carried In the inside breast pocket.
but the dip, an old hand at the game,
got it easily.
The police were notified and apparently
worked on the case, and reported no clue
How easy it would have been for them
to have got the dip If they had really
wanted to will be seen from the following
fact:
At that time and up to about a year
ago there was an organization on the
lower East Side known as 1.-The Boys OF
posed almost entirely of pickpockets. II
was their social club Two hundred and
fifty of them belonged to it. 1t was their
safest retreat. There at least they were
safe from the framed-up charge Of jos
Ting. Among the $50 members there were
a number Of stool pigeons.
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On the night of the seventy-iv
hundred dollar touch there wasn't
a member of that club who didn't
know of 1t. 1t was the only thing they
talked of. The name of the dip who
made the touch was freely mentioned.
The stool pigeons heard 1t. Naturally
they carried the news to police head
quarters. And yet there was no arrest.
How much Of the roll the dip in question
had to give up for his freedom is not
known. In the club the amount was
mentioned at $1,000.
1t was an interesting fact that the bal
ance of the money finally found its way
back to the very bookmaker who lost it..
The dip was playing the races. as all Of
them did. He thought 1t good joke to
place his bets with the man he had
touched.
Its one Of the few chances I've had to
play with a bookies own money" he
said. Though the dip lost every cent Of
it, he always said it made him laugh to
see how nice and polite the bookie
treated him. while the dip was simply
losing the bookmaker's own money back
to him.
scarce good haul can usually be made
from one Of the many fences'-the
men who buy from crooks the stuff they
have stolen.
How this is done may be illustrated by
a case which came to my attention and
which is only one Of many of the same
kind.
Through stool pigeon two precinct de-
tectives learned of q big burglary that
was to be pulled over In the wholesale
drygoods district by three crooks. They
were on hand when the trick was to be
turned, but made no effort to pinch the
crooks. A loft was entered and several
cases of woolens deliberately removed
and loaded into a wagon.
The detective trailed the stolen property
to fence" Then the crooks were ar
rested. No graft was eXtorted from them,
the collar being too important to- spoil.
Before the fence could distribute the
stolen goods among his stock in the man
ner usually followed by them. the de-
tectives placed him under arrest Salts
fled with the glory they got out Of the
arrest of the burglars, they were quite
ready to listen to reason when the
fence offered to pay for his release. 1t
cost him $4,000.
There is no limit to the number of
stories of this kind which might be told.
This kind of graft is being collected 365
days in the year. No criminal is proof
against it. Few commit their crimes with
the direct aid of the criminal police Off
Gals, perhaps, but thousands escape the
punishment they have earned by q judi
cious payment out Of their fall money
bank roll"
The fall money bank rolf is a fund
kept in reserve by every crook of the
higher grade. 1t is used for many pur-
poses 1t is used to try to bride the COM
plainant to whom an agent of the pris-
oner is sent. This procedure is known
in the underworld as ''squaring the rap
per-
It is used also for the engaging of
"mouthpiece'-a lawyer. 1t is used in q
last effort to SQUARE the detective who