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Updated: September 17, 2025
He is one of the most remarkable rogues in Christendom; he is so noted a cheat, that there is not a pick-pocket in England who would keep company with him if he had anything to lose. He was the favourite of his father, who intended to leave him all his fortune, which was tolerably large. He robbed him one day on the high road; his father discovered it, and disinherited him.
The few farms in that neighbourhood were then chiefly occupied by Americans, some of whom had found it highly desirable to expatriate themselves; and might have exclaimed with the celebrated pick-pocket, Barrington, in a prologue spoken to a convict-audience in New South Wales, "Friends, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good."
He procured some water, raised the man's head, and allowed him to take a deep and invigorating draught. "Why, it is 'The Worm!" said the junior policeman. "I know him well. He is a pick-pocket, an expert rascal in his line, but hardly up to the standard of great events."
The door was opened by Sloane's man, Jarvis, who had in queer combination, Hastings thought, the salient aspects of an undertaker and an experienced pick-pocket. He was dismal of countenance and alert in movement, an efficient ghost, admirably appropriate to the twilit gloom of the room with its heavily shaded windows. Mr. Sloane was in bed, in the darkest corner.
Cavendish Dusautoy turned the conversation to the provision of pistols, couriers, and guards, for travelling through the Abruzzi. The polysyllabic courage, and false alarms on such a scale, completely eclipsed a real pick-pocket, caught by a gipsy's cur and a banker's clerk.
"Snouter the Sneak," replied the Object, with ready invention; "pick-pocket." The King was about to command him to be released when the Prime Minister suggested that the prisoner's fingers be examined. They were found greatly flattened and calloused at the ends. "Ha!" cried the King; "I told you so! he is addicted to counting syllables. This is a poet.
And indeed, although the pick-pocket took no particular precaution, the man continued to sleep soundly, as did the other two men in the compartment. The thief looked once more at his watch. "Time!" He leaned out of the open window and slipped back the safety catch.
Encountering him suddenly, Hal started, like a pick-pocket who runs into a policeman. "Hello, kid," said the pit-boss. "Hello, Mr. Stone," was the reply. "I want to talk to you," said the boss. "All right, sir." And then, under his breath, "He's got me!" "Come up to my house," said Stone; and Hal followed, feeling as if hand-cuffs were already on his wrists.
Soames responded to his companion's radiant smile with a smile of his own by no means so pleasant to look upon. Soames had the type of face which, in repose, might be the face of an honest man; but his smile would have led to his instant arrest on any racecourse in Europe: it was the smile of a pick-pocket. "Now," continued Gianapolis, "here is a quarter's salary in advance."
A story which went the rounds of legal circles in Boston and finally was published in the "Boston Sunday Times," shows how he was cleverly fooled by a pick-pocket The man charged with the crime came to Colonel Conwell to get him to take the case.
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