El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-06-22
Dicks, Mclls, Guns,
Peterrnen and Others
A
tPonM THE. NEW YORK SUM-

III i
Pockets, according to Sing Sing e5SeS,
range from "side kicks" to double fnsid-
ers" and II Is hard TO get q poke 70
Heather from a double insider," which is
an inner waistcoat pocket. A watch is a
lesdpss" ebIotk.@ a 'turnlp' IN q kettle"
and its ehaia 10 white slang" Or "red
slang,H silver or gold, n we did not read
Itle star Of Hope we sfouId not recognize
these distinctions; and 6536S holds a gloomy
opinion Of the future Of thieveRy.
"bulls.p dicks" 70. b. dicifs" and EEL
bows have put most Of the 'rsweI mob"
The cops" mugs" OF Fly mugs"
ia the 'hig house" Guns no longer 'hit
the derrick; no more do "yeggs'' come to
New York to spend the Twhitev money,
"kale, " >'scratch, "~VHdnngh.p oY IN the words
Of the Humble Dutchman. the bullets"
they have extracted from TP. O.s'f and
"jugs" in other settlements. Yet the pos
SCISSOR Of a wallet should be wary:
N behooves Mr., A~veFageman to exam
inc well into his pockets if~he should hear
such expressions as let him through, hold
him back, or right bfeeeh; and then. the
sibilant 'cluck from some nearby stranger"
THE Big Fellow" was, specifically, Tim
Sullivan, but the term denotes "a man high
er mp In any enterprise" The piekpockets
are d proud tribe, practitioners Of efficiency:
the wire" the booster the tool and
the swell instrument" all have their care.
fully designated tasks. A Tone STAR works
without aids; a "moll buzzer' aspires to
nothing more dihicult than robbing women.
He does not hope to life a bug the
experts name for q diamond.
Toledo, Ohio, was once a right town"
a good place to hide out in. 1t had mum
erous "scatters," where chop or grease"
oS.1f-nI $500 A. ...-- al 49, -
a Aamboo stem" d Chinese chef cooking the
pills" The gun heeled with a bolt Of
scratch" headed for Toledo for rest; as
Ion gas he spared that town its police
did not bother him.
"Nollie Matches was a famous "gun;"
the fastest Of his day. He won his mon
acher' by covering his vocation under the
innocent pursuit Of a match pedIer. He
found Toledo too small, and came East,
where he worked country fairs, ~circuses and
the Shorts. or street cars. The "TwinkIer7
fell to the low estate Of stool pigeon for the
as the 0Pinkss are called. Foley the
was a lone star; he shot Cal Grimm,
a Cincinnati detective, and is IN 'the
shade' for twenty years. But he was once
q great man.
.SIH time past it was not strange nor
for some big politician or police
to lease out strses, car lines or
stations to gun mc5a' and for long
Foley the Goat held the Market street
concession in San Francisco, where the
ferries go, over the bay to Oakland. Came
the day when an Eastern mob bid a high.
price and Foley was 'pinched' and set
tied In san Quentin, much to his amaze
ment; and when he was searched . plant
was. found in his cuff lining, consisting Of
B folded $4,000 bill and another of smaller
lonCn1sxA f4NH . - sxaaHa4to. - R,aokLx&o1A
and carefully seereted fall money"
Araong the swell moIIsg we're Minnie
May the Duchess, who ranked with 4sFaint-
ng Bertha whose Coifapses caused crowds
70 collect, and whose partners Yifed the
Of the sympathetic. The "yegEs"
ak a language of their own. The box.
nan" is a safe blower, h sometimes
wears @monaehefsp such as peter man"
.'yeggman," "biaster," heavy nam ana
soup man. The "yeggs'' are progfessives
From the old time Jimmy and the sec.
iohal jimmy and the apron and the grad
wedge to open the 'goophefs, as safes
yere DESIGNATED the soup man arose with
lis phial OF tremendous possibilities and
ali the old argot that had served
o well TO gil the ~penitentiaries Of the old
lays, Soup nitro or 'dinny. all words
are seIf-exp1anatory, had conquered,
the usage Of these terms became gem
raj within the underworld"
String is fuse, the detonator is Xxx"
he daring individual who lights the fuse
) the "parlor man; the watchers are
lighthouses" A "keister'' is a small suit
ase, or the finer box in a gopher" A
rain is a "rattler," it's conductor a con"
nd the brakasmen "shacks.' a knife is
''sheiyeg and an automatic pistol a mag
Stamps, postal and internal revenues
re ''stickers," a package is a "bindIe," and
timorous looter of clothes lines and hen
costs is a "dynamiter." Stealing the weeks
ash i s"gooseberrying" a ~highwayman Of
australian training says bail up!" when an
Their could cry Hands up!h Yeggs rejoice
i a good meal OF hobo muIligan." which
ONE call "slum guiIion." In other circles
bad check rs a Scratch the forger a
scratcher," and the passer a layer" All
{ them end IN prison, where a HfeF is
doing ii all" while a short tefh1er does a
Bit and q long tefDaef a stretch; and
wop'' is a few days or weeks Go be served
efore the gate opens and our rival the fas.
IL walks out to freedom.