A NEW BXOUSE FOR POCKET. PICKING.
A new excuse for pooket.pioking has been invented at Berlin. An old gentleman, pos» BPMed of a very ample share of this world'i goods, had purloined in (he. course of a few months no less than seventy»flve beautifully embroidered ladies handkerchiefi, He wai finally discovered when Burnriog the same oooupation Unter den Linden on the Emperor's lait birthday fete. Together with a number of other gentlemen of the tame profeiiion he appeared the other day before the magistrate. And here Dr. Friedman's (the lawyer) art steps in, for, whila admitting that his olient was not suffering from the convenient ailment known at kleptomania, he urged that the,old gentleman wai ■abject to a morbid stale of mi- d, Which compelled him, whenever he saw a beautsful woman, to try and obtain as a souvenir tome object which had belonged to her. The old piokpooket was acquitted, but whether the HighOourt was moved with compassion with the prisoner's homage to beauty, or whet ha* tbe "beautiful women" were touehsd by ft and demanded his release, tbe Chronicle does not say.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1557, 16 September 1886, Page 3
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184A NEW BXOUSE FOR POCKET. PICKING. Temuka Leader, Issue 1557, 16 September 1886, Page 3
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