Clipping:The proper treatment of pickpockets

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Date Sunday, July 7, 1867
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[Unions of Morrisania vs. Irvingtons 7/2/1867] Not the slightest occurrence–with one exception–marred the harmony of the occasion, and the exception was the effort of a pickpocket to pursue his nefarious vocation–a sound thrashing first, and imprisonment afterward, being the result. If the fraternity would only make it a point of making ball matches too hot for these scoundrels, by giving each and all of them a sound thrashing whenever they attempt to practice their profession, they would stop the evil very soon; as pickpockets, indifferent to arrest as they be, don’t like rough handling by excited crowds.

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

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