Man Pickpocketed in 125th Street Subway Station
- Title of event
- Man Pickpocketed in 125th Street Subway Station
- Type of event
- Robbery_individual
- Address of event
- Man Pickpocketed in 125th Street Subway Station Happened Entirely at W 125th St & 7th Ave
- Report on event
- Man Pickpocketed in 125th Street Subway Station Sole event referenced by Four Pickpocket Suspects Sentenced by Magistrate
- Start date / time
- May 4, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Night (Any Time)
- Description
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"Pronouncing four pickpocket suspects guilty Saturday afternoon, Magistrate Capshaw, in Harlem Court, started a blistering campaign against Harlem's most flourishing petty racket, that of "Clipping Drunks"... Godfrey Scott, 52, and homeless, was held in $500 bail for Special Sessions after he had been charged with pulling a knife and threatening to murder Peter Flanagan... [while] he was asleep in the 125th Street station of the Seventh Avenue line of the I.R.T. early Saturday morning."