The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-01-23
saorlIrrrns AND ,nsIn wArs.
The Rsesnt Numevou- Arrests ~ 8-au
store Causes spseu'atio- Therrou.

The Rsesst Nuuevou- Arrests ~ 8snu
store Causes speeu' altos Therrou.
The large number Of persons who have been
arrested for shoplliting recently By \ young
woman detective in Broadway notion store
has set people talking. That shopliiters are
increasing in number rather than decreasing
IL acknowledged by the police, but after the
Christmas holidays are over they Invariably
lie low for time Since last Christmas few
shoplifters have been arrested in the big stores.
In the little notion store Of A. 7. Jammes Mt
SOD Broadway. however where yonnG woman
named Louise Alexandra has been dlstin-
gushing herself there have been enough OF
them to keep up the average. Miss Alsxan-
dre's record IL twenty-five arrests since Jan.
]. and there is not another detective. male or
female in nny Of the big stores who can
equal It.
Miss Alexandrc's last arrest was made on
Saturday The young woman claimed to have
seen Young man steal IS Jewel cnse from
ono OF tho counters She notified tho proprie-
tor. but the Young man. seeing that he was
about to be arrested. ran awuy. lie was chased
several blocks and then no suddenly disap-
peared. Right here comes the mysterious
part OF the case. Tho putsuers claim that the
man they we're chasing ran into cigar store
They followed and arrested him. they sny.
The man who was arrested denies emphati-
cally that he was in Jammes's store on Satur-
day afternoon. lie had stepped into the cigar
store to purchase n package Of ciRaretts. when
two men ran in and placed him under ARE st.
Nothing was found on him to prove that he
had been 10 the store at al! yet he was taken
to the lorkville Court and held for trial on a
charge Of shopliftinR.
The arrest made by Miss Alexandra that pre-
coded this was that OF Mira HorninR Of Corn
ing. n. Y. This woman. who Is wealthy aud
respected by all who know her. was arrested
and charged with stealing n oS-cent pin. Mrs.
Horning was locked up all night. and tho next
morning was discharged In court For some
prosecute her. 1t is said that Mrs. Horning
will bring suit for false arrest.
Just why the shopliftors avoid the big stores,
without detection than at Mr.. Jnmmess place.
xhifh, IN addition 70 being small cont aims no
really valuable articles. and go to this small
notion establishment is more than tn o authori-
ties, can understand Mr.. Jammes insists that
no doesn't invite them around. and saTe that
hesides stealing his goods. they greatly iniure
his business y SrN reporter visited n num-
yesterday and talked with the store detectives.
Ihey all agreed that, while shoplifting was
very little practistd by the regulars. Said ono
detective:
The shopll'ters do their work during the
holidays, and II they can get by New Years
without being detected. they generally lay of
FOR. while. I have caught hundreds Of them
III ..ne 'eIl NehrN nave ueen III tHlb nuslnoSH,
and have got their habits down pretty fine.
We have always managed 10 corral about three
week. even in the slowest times, but lately.
i9r some reason or other. they have avoided
the big stores and the average has been cut
down to about one or two week Now II you
will tell me- why shopifters leave the big
stores. wi tn their magnificent displays Of valu-
able goods and go to little notion store I
would be much Obliged to you. must confess
don't understand It,"
The police have little to say about the prob
lem. Superintendent Byrnes thinks Miss
Alexandra 10 a clever girl. Miss Alexandra
herself says: Il want no more publicity. II
see M employer being robbed cause the ar
rest OF the thlef. and that's all there is