The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-11
Dicks, MOlls, Guns and Others.

Dicks, MOlls, Guns and Others.
Pockets, according to Sing Sing
G538S. range from side kicks" to
double insiders" and 1t Is hard to
get n poke" or leather" from n "dou-
bic insider," which IL nm inner waist
coat pocket. A watch is a super" a
block" a "turnip' or a kettle" and
its chain Is white slang" or red
slang" silver or gold. II we did not
read the Star Of Hope we should not
recognize these distinctions and 6536S
holds a gloomy opinion Of the future
Of thievery.
The cops" mugs" ny mugs"
bulls" dicks" &c. q. dicks and
elbows" have put most Of the "swell
mob" in the big house" Guns" no
longer hit the derrick; no more do
'yeggs" come To New York TO spend
the white" money. "kale." scratch"
dough-" or in the words Of the
Humble Dutchman. the bullets" they
have extracted from Up. Os." and
Jugs" In other settlements. Yet the
possessor Of n wallet should he wary {:
TT behooves Mr.. Averaseman 10 ex-
anime we'll into his pockets II he should
hear such expressions al let him
through mold him back or right
breech.' and then tho sibilant 'cluck'
from some nearby stranger"
"The Big Fellow" was. specifically,
TIM SULLIVAN, hut the term denotes
"a nan higher up in any enterprise"
The pickpockets are n proud tribe,
practitioners of efficiency the wire"
the booster" the tool" and the
"swell instrument" all have their
carefully designated tasks. A clone
star" works without aids: n "moll
buzzer" aspires to nothing more diff
cult than robbing ONE lie does
not hope TO lift" n bug" the experts
name for a diamond pin.
Toledo, Ohio. was once a right
town." n good place to hide out in.
1t had numerous "s%catters," where
hop" or grease" was smoked @
the peanut oil lamp with a bamboo
STEM" n Chinese chef cooking the
pills" The gun" "heeled with n bolt
Of scratch" headed for Toledo for
rest as long as he spared that town
its police did not bother him.
"NOllie Matches" was n famous
gun; the fastest" Of his day. He
won his "monacher" by covering his
vocation under the innocent pursuit
Of n match pedler. He found Toledo
too small, and came East. where he
worked country fairs, circuses and
the Shorts" or street cars. The
"Twinkler" fell to the low estate OF
stool pigeon for the "eye," ms the
"Pinks' are called. FOLEY the Goat"
was a "lone STAR; he shot CAL
GRIMM, a Cincinnati detective, and is
in "thc shade" for twenty years. But
he was once a great man:
TN tims past It was not strange or
unusual for some big politician or police
captain to lease out street car lines or
ferry stations to gun mobs.' and for
long FOLEY tho Goat held the Market
street concession IN San Francisco. where
Came the day when an Eastern mob
bid a higher price and FOLEY was
'pinohed' and settled In San Quentin.
much to his Amusement and when he
was searched a plant was found In his
cuff lining, consisting OF a folded $4,000
bill and another OF smaller denomina-
ton an evidence Of forethought and
carefully secreted fall money"
Among the "swell molls" were
MINNIE MAY the Duchess, who ranked
with "Fainting BERTHA" whose col
lapses caused crowds to collect, and
whose partners rlfed the pockets of
the sympathetic. The "ycggs" talk a
language of their " The boy
man" Is II safe blower. and sometimes
wears "mOnachers" such az peter
man," ''ycgGman," "blnstcr," "heavy
man" and "soup man." The "yeggs"
are progressive:
''From the old time Jimmy and the
sectional Jimmy n the apron and the
VSaauats wedge to open the 'soophsrs.'
- safss were Designated. ~ ;;leuP msn'