Word: pickpocketings
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...year-old Irish peer. Reason for his visit's brevity: Fortnight ago a Paris pickpocket whisked a passport from the right hip pocket of his trousers. Threatened with Ellis Island detention, he roared: "I have no fear of the place. ... I hear they have some new murals...
...World War hero and onetime child prodigy singer who has been trying to commit suicide since adolescence; Gus Popolos, a Rasputin-like fanatic who wanders around in a moth-eaten bear rug, proclaims Colonel Steele the new Messiah, finally marries an outsmarted chorus girl; Moussa, a notorious Arab pickpocket, whom nobody understands except Captain Trolley; the mayor's katzenjammer son, whose snooping in Dr. Thumb's traveling bag is rewarded by a small mummified head which turns out to be that of the mayor's long-lost missionary father...
Fame flamed from his footsteps. In 1925, eight years after he had freed his first pickpocket, Al Capone hired Liebowitz in connection with three sociable murders in Brooklyn's Adonis Club. It was on Liebowitz' advice that Capone went to prison for income tax evasions...
Another time Liebowitz got a jury to believe a murder suspect's alibi by asking him, "What is your occupation?" "Professional pickpocket." "How long have you been a pickpocket?" "Twenty-four years." "If you are acquitted of this murder charge what will your occupation be in the future?" "Pickpocket." The jury, overwhelmed by such brash honesty, believed and acquitted...
...Manhattan, police arrested Joseph Fox, 46, alias Joseph Wolf, Harry Gross, Harry Solomon, for picking a bus passenger's pocket. In court it was revealed that since 1904 he had been arrested 75 times in 14 cities-mostly on pickpocket charges-and convicted 26 times. Explained Pickpocket Fox: "Everybody has his own pattern cut out for him. This seems to be mine...