The Thubway Tham Megapack
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Immune Mickey was riding in a streetcar with two of his pals. In the same car was James Stone, a Y. M. C. A. worker, who suddenly felt someone remove his wallet from his pocket. Stone gave the alarm, and several persons immediately rushed toward the rear entrance of the car. Among them was Mickey.
At that moment a patrolman in civilian clothes entered the car and felt a wallet being forcibly deposited in his pocket. Immune Mickey, it seemed to the policeman, was the man who had placed it there.
The pickpocket’s associates beat a hasty retreat and escaped, but Mickey was not so lucky. He was escorted by the guardian of the law to a police station, where he protested his innocence and declared that he had never been arrested before. His identity as a well-known dip was, however, soon established.
—Filler material from Detective Story Magazine.