The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-29

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Theso - mo question b0s that the aver
ago detective had rather deal with hve
male than one female lawbreaker. writes
. p0lics officer i'm tho New York Sum.
Catch . woman breaking the law and she
will resort 20 . score Of tricks and subter-
fugea to men, and IL is not
invent an excuae calling for mercy and
opening = way Of escape. And 10 IL very
seldom an officer gets amy credit an .
woman case. She n the weaker party.
even II wicked. and she will have more
or lees public sympathy, mo- matter how
One of my first experiences was In Ga
lena. H., q good many years ago. A mer-
chant found that he was bcinR rohbed i'm
a mysterious manner and I was sent
down from Chicago to investigates. He
had three hoy clerks in his store, and il
was i'm the old lay when every clerk had
access IN the money Az he
reasoned. the money was taken during
thc day, and Ivy some one at the clerks.
For instance SD hill would he taken IN
at q certain hour. An hour or two later
IL would be missing from the drawer, and
each and every one would deny having
pad h out, While he wanted tai have
conAdence i'm every clerk, he was forced
to conclude that one of them, ut least,
was n thief. He wanted To go slow until
SURE, and he alone knew what my errand
was.
In tho preliminary skirmish I found that
tho merchant had been marr:el only N
year and that he lived In rooms over his
store. A stairway ran up from the inter
Tor, and on the first day of my arrival l
noticed that his wife came down three or
four times, helping herself to thread, rib
hon ar whatever she fancied or needed.
She Was n woman not over y years old,
about what was going ON Below. Indeed.
the husband had cautioned her tn keep
her eyes open for a. Glow. 1 was intro
of Mr.. THOMPSON. Luckily he had not
told his wife who 1 was before I suggested
and on " visit, and was to he an Inmate
OF the family for - week ar 80. This gave
mo opportunity to sit around and watch,
aud l felt certain that ] would solve the
Orhrcc more honest looking boys than
of GOOD families, ali OF correct habits;
and after watching them for three days l
was dead sure that 1 must look elsew here
occasionally came into the store. Half u
dozen reople who might he tempted to
70 at,aoi, any suspicion 10 their actions.
fifth day ono of the clerks took in a $40
into IN money drawer ON the left-hand
side Of the store. l took u scat where i
the gold had mot BEEN Sess' paid out. asccrs
tanned this To u certainty by sending the
merchant To the drawer.
minutes and upon my return the gold was
gone. The merchant had not watched
only young Saxby had been on that side
since my departure. i took the young
man into the storeroom and told him who
i WAS and what i was there for. While
he was surprised he was not alarmed. He
offered to submit tn N search and l made
asked a.. wi' si% vino Mna'I is S n"Y'n a.an near mhen the
drawer and he could remember nobody
but the m~eachant's wife. He readily
two days later the. climax came.
Tho merchant had his dinner mt noon .as
through Che other two clerks went on, To-
theirs, thus leaving only two in the store
mt once from noon To 1 40 o'clock. At II 30
merchant. / fixed with Saxby, who was to
go later, 20 keep ms clear Of the money
for him 70 leave. I sent tho merchant out
on tine street and then took my position to
watch. 1 had been there but fiftee min-
ping along and humming n tune, and she
went IN - box and got u paper OF pins. On
her way hack she st1pPsd at 'is. n money
ried up stairs. i nt once asked the clerks
what bills were In the drawer, and they
they locke the AYES were gone. l went
out and told the merchant what l had
seen; He could not believe y, of course;
aud give us ~ chance To search. In the
coursc of an hour he got her away and to-
gether we began u search. In mn old
album in a trunk we found S720, including
the $O gold piece, and there was no
longer room for him to doubt. My work
was finished and ] went away. How they
settled il l do not know. There WAS IL
separation for ~ few weeks, hut they got
together again and are still man and wife
Tor all l know ( , the contrary.
Almost the next case l had was in Chi
cago. A firm eInpl yang "A young lady a.
ewo in its cloak department was
missing goods from that department. The
sales, too, for some uIlcN planned reason
were winding down. There were four
girls in that department, and for two
weeks I was ON hand weenever they left
the store. Nome of them carried anything
AWAY. ! then realized that there must be
some trickcry i'm the sales made, aud the
only WAY ! could get on u that was to
turn artist and spend u few days in the
department decorating the supporting coli
unins with brush and paint. kept my
eyes and ear. wide open rr i've Il AVS before
Hit the tMllseye. The trick was 50 open
and simple that IL fooled everybody. The
forelady would sell. say. "a cloak for 50.
She would receive the cash. send 50 OF n
with the cloak to- the cashier and pack Age
counter and write that the garment was to
he sent To No. so-anl-so ON approval. The
next day she would send in u card to the
effect that the cloak did not fit and had
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