Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-10-30
AdrOit Female Thieves.
ARREST OF TWO WOMEN CHARGED WITH ROBBING BAL
TIMORE MERCHANTS.

ARREST OF TWO WOMEN CHARGED ROBBING BAL
TIMORE MERCHANTS.
Yesterday morning Detective Lyons, of the in
dependent firm OF Smith, West and Lyons, OF Bal
tmore, arrived in this city in search of two young
women charged with shoplifting in that city, De
tectiveS Coomes and McElfrcsh started out ant
after a search among the hotels and boarding
houses finally found the couple at the fremont
house, where they arrived Saturday night, regis
tering their names as Mrs. C. ii. Shelter and Mrs
P. F. Daily, New York city. They were eScteted
to police headquarters. when they were charged
with the THEFT OF certain articles from the dry
goods stores OF Baltimore Detective Lyons stated
that they took rooms at f1rst-claSS hotel and
went to various large dry goods stores and ordered
bills OF goods to be sent to their rooms on Sharp
generally for expensive goods, and while they
were busily examining them they were
Clothing. and got away with some rich furs and
silks. When the porter arrived at the Sharp street
house nothing could be found of them. In this
way, it is alleged, they stole a sealSkin dOlman
from Hamilton Casters dry goods store, valued
at $500, and pieces of silk from other houses, some
Of which they put IN In The
was recovered by the owners. They were sus-
pected OF having taken the train for this city, and
turned over to Detective Lyons who took them
back to Baltimore last night to answer the charge
OF larceny. The dry goods merchants OF this city
may congratulate themselves that their visit was
so short here, as their purpose was to work the
stores here, so they acknowledged.
MARRIAGE LICENsEs.-Marriage licenses have
been issued to Arthur F. Redman and Hattie Beck
EFT; John G. T. Moore, OF Baltimore, and Julia
Schnaebel; James Greenwood and Kate Chaffie
Robert Herocker and Anna Rudhart; John Ham,
iltOn, OF St Louis, Mo-, and Lizzie d. Lewis Henry
c. Lancaster, OF Philadelphia, and Annie s. Elliot;
George A. Mars and Susannah Scott; Nicholas
Dorsey and Adeline Scales, both OF Montgomery
county, Md.
A WIFE'S BILL FOR DIvoRCE.-TO-day, C. s.
Bundy, for Sarah Ann CriSemOn, filed a bill for
divorce from Lewis E. CrisemOn. They were mar
ried in April 1873, and She charges that defendant
has treated her with cruelty specifying his beating
her on May 1St last with his fists, and about July
1st, when he used on her board three feet long
and six inches wide, and also committed acts OF
adultery in January, 1875 with Fanny Hansbury,
and again in August 1880, and that since July last
she has not lived with him. She asks that de-
fendant, who Is watchman in the Treasury
department, be decreed to pay her alimony and
counsel fees, and also prays for a divorce.
THE F. K. WARD INJUNCTION CAsE.-To-day
the case OF Walter ct al, agt Frank x. Ward,
the Alderney dairy Injunction case, was taken up
In the Equity Court In which Messrs. Riddle and
Davis appear for plaintiffs and Mr.. r. R Perry, for
the defendant Mr.. Ward makes In his answer q
general denial OF the allegation that his place
nuisance; sets forth the Investment OF $l0OOC0 In
the business, the payment OF $4,000 In a month
and nles report OF the health ofIicer as to the
cleanliness OF the dairy, &c. After reading the
papers. M. Davis for the complainants, opened
the argument