AMATEUR PICKPOCKET.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5340, 17 October 1928, Page 2

AMATEUR PICKPOCKET.

THINGS NOT WHAT THEY 7 SEEM 1 . A well-known Wellington resident wag in a crowd the other day, when, feeling time pass somewhat slowly he decided tq seek solace in his pipe. After fumbling in search of his tobacco pouch for some 'time hei w.a,s on the. point of giving up in. the belief that it must ha-pe; dropped out and been lost (s.tateis the Dominion). Suddenly pungent ■ fumes assailed, his hCjstrils and he .turned delighted, with the intention of borrowing the wherewithal for his “smoke” from his more fortunate neighbour,, a working man in rather shabby dungarees. YVhat was his astonishment to notice the corner of his own poue.h projecting from one of the pockets of the overalls. Deciding that, such a. course w a .® better then .making a, fuss, he: removed it quietly and stealthily. All the wa,y borne that evening he sat filled with warm indignation — which even the familiar leaf eWild not allay—at the .thought of any man stooping to st theft s,o mean and contemptible:. until, entering his home, be discovered his p’Wn pouch lying half-filled upop the ihall-s|tand I