Word: pickpocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Swagger. In Manhattan, Pickpocket David Hauser appeared in court wearing what he called a loot suit-loose at the waist, tight at the cuffs, for the transportation of swag...
...Door is compounded of the stories of the people involved in the murder - Grayling, the murdered man, over 50, grey-eyed, thin, inquisitorial, cold, churchwarden, town councilor, Home Guardsman, petty grafter, a tyrant to his young and pretty wife; Renata, 38, brown-haired, self-seeking, moodily vengeful; Ransom, pickpocket, fugitive, a World War I veteran recovering his self-respect in the Battle of Britain; Mannheim, a German refugee chemist, possibly a spy, square, dark, smuggled out of Germany...
...your girl the chubby type? Are her little hands fat and pudgy? Or is she the picturesque, stately type with the long, tapering fingers of a pickpocket? No matter what type she is, you can be sure that so-&-so has the ring...
They needed money, so they knocked off an armored car and snatched a $20,000 payroll. In these times they needed draft cards, so they carefully engineered pickpocket jobs and fifth-rate stickups to get cards that matched their descriptions. But above all they needed 24-hour-a-day caution, and discipline that surpassed anything they had ever known in prison...