Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1912 — Pickpackets Suspend Business. [ARTICLE]

Pickpackets Suspend Business.

Has anybody had a pocket picked in Stockholm recently? One is curious to know how the visitors to the Olympic games at the Swedish capital have fared, because M. Xavier Paoli, tho French "conductor of kings/’ vouches for the fact that there were no pockets picked in Athens while the Olympic games were, in progress there. When it became evident that the games would draw large numbers of foreigners to Athens the pickpockets held a meeting and pledged themselves, one and all, to suspend business as long as the games lasted in order to protect the reputation of their country. And M. Paoli says they kept their word.—London Chronicle.