Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-02-13
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We are exceedingly panied at being
called upon to record another instance
Of female depravity in high life. Crime
is not confined to the poor, but frequen.-
" crops out in the upper strata OF So
ciety in places where it is not expected.
In the present Ease there is no excuse
for the woman, as she is in comparative
ly Easy circumstances-the wife OF q
clerk in one Of our wholesale houses
and il is presumed that all her reason.
able and moderate wants are provided
for by her husband, who receives q gooa
salary. Whether her fall from the path
of common honesty Is attributable to
uncomfortable propensity, or moral in
sanity, which affects some women n
impeis them, irresistibly, to steal arti-
Giles for which they have no use; or
whether her moral delinquency is owing
to o deficiency in her early training,
which allowed her to yield to tempta-
ton, we cannot say. In either case the
result is d~eplorable, and we can but pity
the unfortunate victim Of q passion SO,
degrading.
On yesterday two well dressed ladies
entered the dry-good store Of Harden &
fuller, on Fifth street, and were waited
upon by one Of the polite clerks OF that
6rst-class house. It seems that, warned
BY past experience, the proprietors have
found it to their advantage to instruct
their clerks to keep o strict but respect
full watch over the movements Of strange
customers who approach their counters,
and in this case the vigilance Of the
| clerk was not exercised in vain.
While one of the ladies was busily en-
gagged in looking at various articles
spread out before her, the clerk obsery-
ed the other lady handling a bolt Of silk
in a suspicious manner. He said moth
ing, but kept both his eyes open. Look
ing around, and thinking she was not
observed, the lady adroitly slipped the
bolt Of silk through q slit in her skirt
and it disappeared from her sight. She
was accused Of theft, and, of course, as
serted her innocence. A search, how
ever, decided the matter, and the silk
was fshed out. The other lady salts
fed the merchants that she had no hand
in the theft, and was not molested, but
her companion was arrested, and taken
to the police office.
Policemen are so accustomed to deal
ing with criminals that they have not
as much delicscy Of feeling as most 9th.
er men, and tears and entreaties have
no effect upon them when they believe
the weeper to be guilty Of felony. They
proceeded to search the lady. She was
terribly agitated, and the proposal to
search caused her to faint. In a few
moments she recovered, and the search
proceeded. Again the conscience strick-
en- fair one collapsed, and fell into a
fainting fit. Again she revived, and
the unhallowed hands Of the officers
made free with the folds of her skirts.
1t is a sad thing to tell, but the truth
must come out. Under the smooth
folds of the lady's dress were found two
good sized sacks, made expressly for re-
| ceiving such articles as tho owner might
choose to slip into them from the open
ing in front. In these sacks were found
several small articles, which were as
certained to have been stolen from an
other dry goods store.
The lady gave her name as Mrs. Car
oline Emerson, but we learn that her
real name is Mrs. Augusta limerick.
Her husband is drummer or travelling
agent for a frst-class wholesale house
in the city. The other lady is the wife
Of a clerk or book-keeper in the same
store.
The firm in whose house the woman's
husband is employed were notified Of
her arrest, and she vas bailed out In
the sum Of So, 900, to appear this morn
ing before the Police Judge. She has
been in the city but a short time, and
her parents reside in Miehigan.-S.
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