Word: pickpocketeers
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...cellar of a bombed-out building in Vienna several children are wintering like rats. The youngest, Tiny, is lying covered with newspapers in a handcart. The shrewdest, Yid, 13, a pickpocket, bends over her. "She is nearly going," he says to seven-year-old Curls. "Look at her belly. I know, from camp. You can die from a shrink belly or you can die from a balloon belly...
...aged prisoner who stood briefly in the dock of London's Bow Street Court was just a routine offender, an habitual pickpocket. But the boys on the reporters' bench, watching the Evening News's bald-headed Jimmy Jones at his shorthand, knew that the old dip would soon look different. Next day, to the Evening News's 1,600,000 readers...
...detective unfolded a massive sheaf of documents. "He's been in and out of prison most of his life. He's an expert pickpocket, and has 34 convictions...
...Alton W. Knappenberger, 20 years old, 120 lbs., who knocked off 60 Nazis on the Anzio beachhead, arrived practically broke in his home town, Spring Mount, Pa. Explained the Congressional medalist: "I saved up $150. .. . Then while I was in Naples a pickpocket took it all. The people there are pretty hard...
Slow Men. In Los Angeles, 56-year-old Pickpocket Albert Lewis announced that honest toil was best, even at $5 a week, after he was arrested for the 96th time. In Missouri State Prison, 83-year-old H.O. Chenoweth, a lifer, refused to ask for a parole, held out for just "a little outside privilege, so I can go over to the river and fish." In London, relatives of 86-year-old Thomas Morrell reported him missing, believed he had probably run away...