PICKPOCKETS IN BRITAIN
Pickpockets have discovered a new line in London. Hundreds of people in the past few weeks have reported that their fountain pens have been taken from their pockets. Pens originally worth £1 10s can be blackmarketed now for £5 to £lO, because of a shortage. Thieves are picking people who clip pens in coat inside breast-pockets.
Scotland Yard believes the increase in pocket picking and pilfering is due to the formation of small gangs, working carefully chosen areas, such as Oxford Street. Special detectives and. plain-clothes police have already broken one gang.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 59, 28 July 1947, Page 4
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95PICKPOCKETS IN BRITAIN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 59, 28 July 1947, Page 4
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