A Trap to Catch a Pickpocket
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Crime, Invention |
Discusses a report in the Lombardia of Milan of an invention to thwart pickpockets: an iron trap placed in a coat pocket. Hopes that the invention is 'a fact' and anticipates that catching pickpockets in this way will 'soon become a common occurrence. | |
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