The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-09
TWO NOTORIOUS PICKPOCKETS ARE
 HELD BY POLICE Caught After Woman's Bag Was Robbed, Their Rec
 ords Are Learned. BERTILLON SYSTEM PROVES EFFICACIOUS Police on Lookout Today For Circus Followers Who
 Prey on Crowds.

Admitting on the witness stand in the city court that he was a profes- siona1 pickpocket but declaring that when he was arrested last Saturday evening he was innocent, Jacob Frost of New York, who with Jacob Korn is accused of opening the handbag of Mrs. Eva Hubbard of Benham avenue in crowd on Main street and extract ing her purse containing a sum of money, were arraigned this morning. Their cases were continued until Tuesday under bonds of $1, 900 each
 Credit is due Acting Detective John Seery and Policeman Edward Cole for their catch and also Detective Ser geant George Haux, who sent out the Bert1llon figures that resulted in the police getting records of the pair. Both are well known to the New York po- lice and are regarded as adept Tdips !"
 Mrs Hubbard, with her husband was watching the antics of a. monkey that was performing before large crowd at Main and Golden streets A hurdy- guroy man was grinding out the mel ody from his music box while the monkey accepted the coins thrown at him.
 Interestedly watching the. monkey Mrs Hubbard paid slight attention to the JostHng that she was receiving rom Frost who stood beside her. Her nusnand had been standing with her put Frost had managed to jost1e his way into the crowd between them.
 Feeling a tug at her purse. she glanced to see that it was open. No t1clng that the pocketbook had been taken and that Frost was walking away, she followed him and at the edge of tie crowd asked if he had taken the pocketbook. He denied the charge, but her husband had sum-
 
 Korn was seen to be edging around the crowd and hurryfng up Main street, so Policeman Coles took him into custody They were taken to headquarters, but stout1y denied the charge.
 While their cases were continued in the city court, their BertilIon meas urements were taken and sent to all of the principal cities of the East by Sergeant Haux. The New York au- thorities replied that they were pro- fessiona1 pocket pickers and sent their records.
 Frost, whose aliases are Hyman Te- pofsky and Louis Go1dstein, was ar rested in 1907 and sentenced to IT months in the House of Refuge; in May, 1910, sentenced tC 13 months in the same institution; May, 1912, pro- bated for one year, but arrested in August, 1912, and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary and given a $500 fine. Immediately after serving g this sentence he was arrested at Coney Island and given a six months sem tence. He received like sentence in April, 1915. All of his arrests were made on the charge of disorder1y con duct
 Korn is also known Julius Levine and Samuel RoSen. The latter is the name that he gave here when arrest ed. In April, 1914, he was sentenced to 30 days in the workhouse for dis orderly conduct; October. 1914, two months; January, 1915, four months; November, 1915, burglary. discharged, and March, 1916, arrested in Newark, but no disposition was made of the case
 The pocketbook was not found on either Frost or Korn and it is believed that they passed it to a confederate, probably a woman. Frost claims that he had his hands in his pockets dur ing the entire time that he was in the crowd and could not have taken the pocketbook.