The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-30
Jessie LOGAN AGAIN
This Time, With Her Mother,
She is Arrested for
Shoplifting.

Among the prisoners arraigned yester-
day in the Jefferson Market Police Court,
New York. were two women charged with
shoplifting in a Sixth avenue dry goods
store. They were mother and daughter,
and the histories of both are to be found
in the records at Police Headquarters.
The elder, a well preserved woman fifty
years old, was the notorious Mrs. Mary
Logan, alias Hogan, alias Green, formerly
of G~reenville. who, according to the
police, is one of the most skilful and in
dustrious shoplifters in the country. Her
picture graces the rogues' gallery under
the label mo. 1892"
The younger prisoner was Jessie Logan,
better known as Mrs. Jessie Green, wife
of George W. Green, a former car con-
ductor on the Broadway line. Mrs. Green
made herself conspicuous several months
ago by abandoning her husband and
decamping with Theodore w. Morris, the
son of a prominent physician in Jersey
City. She not only abandoned the unfor-
tunate Green, but carried off the house
hold furniture purchased on TIE install
ment plan and still unpaid for.
RAN UP BIG BILLS.
The couple came to grief after victim
izing the Sturtevant House and other
hotels Out of board and wine bills rang
ing from $50 to $500 each. Both were
arrested, and Morris was held for trial on
complaint of Manager Bangs. OF the
Sturtevant House.
1t was then discovered that the aban-
doned husband had also been arrested,
charged by the owners of the vanished
furniture with larceny, His examination
on this charge was pending in the Jeffer-
son Market Police Court when his wife
was arrested for the St rtevant House
swindle. Manager Bangs refused to
appear against the VIC ran, but she was
made a party defendant in the case
against her husband and was held for
examination.
Mrs. Green, vino is a decidedly good
looking and stylish woman. had no
trouble in securing bail She then Joined
her mother at an address which the
police have as yet failed to discover.
Detectives McAuley and O'Brien, of the
Central Office, were on duty at the Sixth
avenue dry goods store last Saturday
afternoon when they caught sight of Mrs.
Logan. Recognizing the nimble fingered
woman. they watched and saw her deftly
appropriate bundle of kid gloves.
BOT ARRESTED.
With her booty concealed under her
long cloak she Sauntered around the store
and leisurely passed into the street, where
she slipped the stolen proper y to her
waiting daughter. Both women were
neither mother nor daughter had any
thing to say beyond coolly pleading mot
guilty" to the charge.
They were remanded for examination
today.
A middle aged and poorly dressed
woman who describes herself as Mrs.
Marta Leary, of Seventeenth street,
Jersey City" was also arraigned in the
Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday
on a charge of .shoplifting. She was
arrested on Saturday afternoon in a
she was seen to take a cheap pair of ear
rings, a pair of kid gloves and a piece of
dress goods valued at 50.
Mrs. Leary wept bitterly in court. ex-
planning between her sobs thu she was
the wife of a brakeman on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad and the mother of six
children.
No such person as Mrs. Leary lives on
Seventeenth street.