Jimmy The Swiper

An interesting online article from the New York Times from Wednesday 28 January, 1894, regarding James 'Jimmie the Swiper' Zeffert. You drop the double tee and that's where it all starts to go wrong. We've no other records of Jimmie yet - so, any further details would be most gratefully received.

"James Zeffert, who, although but fourteen years old, has already gained the sobriquet of "Jimmie the Swiper" by his success in pilfering small articles, was a prisoner yesterday at the Yorkville Police Court. Friday morning a teacher at the East Sixty-eighth Street primary school sent one of her pupils out to get change for a five-dollar bill."

New York Times article