Page Eight
Pickpocket authority
offers some advice
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Saturday, August 12, 1972
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SALT LAKE CITY (/P) -Do
you get excited at the horse rac-
es? Put your purse down on a
department store counter for any
reason? Assist little old ladies
when they drop something? If
so, you may be an easy mark for
a pickpocket.
That's the, message of sleigh
of-hand artist Tony Giorgio, who
claims to have been something of
an authority on pickpockets
since, at the age of 13, he observ-
ed their operations at the circise
where he was a magician. He
long has employed pickpocket
and card acts on the stage.
Although Giorgio, 48, says he's
never picked pockets for real, he
professes to know tricks the best
professionals use - starting with
always working in teams. Teamn-
work allows them to spot persons
carrying sizable sums of money
and distract them in some seem-
ingly innocent way that leaves
them vulnerable.
Then the victim's wallet, or
"poke" as ,it is known in the
pickpocket's vernacular, is stol-
en by one thief who might then
quickly pass it to another to re-
duce the risk of being caui ht
with it.
"Contrary to popular belief,
the taking of a poke is not de-
pendent upon digital dexterity,
although it is required. Distrac-
tion is the most important, and
also required is lots of audacoty,"
Giorgio said.
Giorgio offered several ftp-s to
prevent your poke from being pil-
fered. Use credit cards, as iliey
are almost useless to pickpock-
ets. Men should carry valuabies
in inside coat pockets, and
women can carry their wallets
in their hand instead of thoir
purse.
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Fla. (A) - M. Sgt. Walter Perk-
ins was convicted yesterday of
attempting to smuggle crucial de-
fense secrets to Soviet agents
and given a three-year prison
sentence.
Military Judge Joe Peck also
gave Perkins a dishonorable dis-
charge and reduced his rank to
airman, although allowing him
to collect $138 a month in pay
while he is serving the sent-
ence.
Perkins smiled happily as Peck
handed down the sent'ence.
"It's a light sentence, isn't it,"
Perkins commented to his moth-
er, Mrs. Grace Perkins, as he
was led from the courtroom
here.
"My God! My God!" she re-
plied. "It's heaven."
Peck, of Travis Air Force Base,
Calif., sentenced Perkins t w o
hours after finding him guilty
on three charges stemming from
attempts to smuggle five secret
documents to Soviet agents in
Mexico City. He _was charged
with possession of defense sec-
rets, attempting to pass them
to foreign agents and filling out
false reports saying that he had
disposed of the documents and
falsifying two sets of 1 e a v e
papers.
The judge discounted a defense
contention that Perkins was tem-
porarily insane due to acute al-
coholism and said the noncom-
missioned officer's action result-
carges
ed from "an evil, willful mind."
The Air Force had asked for
a maximum sentence of 26 years
but Peck said he interpreted the
law to mean that Perkins could
only receive a maximum of 24
years.
Civilian defense attorney Hen-
ry Rothblatt of New York City
said he was "delighted by the
sentence - it amounts to little
more than a slap on the wrist."
Perkins, ranking noncommis-
sioned officer in the intelligence
unit at the Air Defense Weapons
Center here, was arrested last
Oct. 18 at nearby Panama City
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to Mexico to hand over the docu-
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