Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1907 — Light-Toed Gentry. [ARTICLE]

Light-Toed Gentry.

‘The best pickpockets,” said the detective, “are the Hindoos. You have to call them light toed as well as light fingered, for they can lift a watch or purse as easily with their feet as with their hands. ‘Trained from childhood, these barefooted rascals are wonderfully skillful with their toes. This gives them a great advantage. A Hindoo In a crowd will stand with his arms ostentatiously folded and sneak with his foot the wallet from your trousers pocket”