Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-07-16
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''Just TO show you how Liable
make mistakes some women are. adI
= prominent police ofiiciAl this morning. {
II will cite TO you few instances a x
the trouble they sometimes give N =
> result OF their own carelessness. and
the irrational manner In which they
will make charges against innocent
people. which they can not substantinte.
except with their own statems nts. 4
know; am sure A few days ago 1
lady entered drug store on Yonge
street and purchased some small arti-
Gle from young clerk. She went out.
and walked down few blocks further.
On entering another store she missed
her purse. i will go hack to the drug
store, remember laying the purse on
the counter, and now am sure forgot
to pick it up again. Yes, now rem@m-
Der it distinctly and as she goes back
to the drug sto-e her first suspicion
rapidly assumes the h6pe Of . rooted
conviction. The young man tells her
that she did not leave the POCKET book
She must have dropped il Or had her
pocket picked. No. j lcfs il right
there. and she pointed TO certain
spot. The c'erx had not the purse. and
the matter was at once reported TO tbs
detectives by the irafe loser. The
pocket-book contained $40. and think
il WAS Detective Black who was de-
tai ed TO look into the matter The
Indy was sure the clerk had purloined
her money. and would believe nothing
else. Detective Black made full and
thorough investigation. and he was az
fully satisfied t;iat it was not the clerk
who had got the money. There WAS
some mistake Tine woman wanted the
young man arrested. but the officer re-
fused TO make the arrest Instead he
advised the loser TO advertise her loss
in the papers That boy has my money.
Sa1 what do want to be throwing
good money after stolen money fors
WAS the reply. The detective looked
at the lost and found columns of the
paper and found sum Of money found.
corresponding with the same time and
place as the case upon which he was
working He called at the address
given. and sure enough. it was the. sure
and-certain' womans purse that had
been picked up a few minutes after she
dropped it to the sidewalk The adver-
tisement was in the next mornings
| paper after The loss. and the officer saw
! it right away. Now. that woman is
ashamed to GO into that drugstore. and
would be. too. If had acted in the
unreasonable manner that she did.
"Another case of a newspaper head
4 ing More pocket picking at the Union
station, was nipped in the bud By De-
tective Cuddy and the Grand Trunk
constable at the Union Station the other
evening. She was stepping on the rear
car of the train going west when the
officers noticed her pocket book falling
to the ground. Cuddy at once picked
it up and followed the lady into the car.
1 No sooner was she seated than she dts
covered her loss. Ola. my. my peck It
has be n picked My purse and ali
the money had ticaet and every thing
is gone. and the frantic woman was
going to enter into particulars for the
benefit of her fellow passengers. Prob
ably had she had time she would soon
have distinctly remembered passing tho
very man and feeling the purse jerked
away. But the officers stopped the
second act IN the middle, and present
ing the purse to the loser, informed her
where they had found it. The woman
looked su-piciously at the officer in
plain clothes. but looked as if she
would believe any thing after she
found her money all right. There are
msny cases like this. and can an officer
be blamed, if he makes a wrong jGcg'
ment in some really circumstanttal
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