The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-10
The FEMALE DETECTIVE
She Is Employed 10 Trap ShOplilteTS in
Large Stores.

a Pair of Blue Eyes and an Innocent
Face DO the Work-Wealthy People
Are Kleptomaniacs; Poor People Are
Thieves-How They Are Caught.
From the Louisville Commercial
Just where kleptomania ends and theft
begins is difficult to determine, but be this
as it may, the large stores of this city lose
thousands of dollors annually by klepto
manacs and thieves. TO protect them
sevles from these classes many Of our
largest establishments have from three to
four detectives in their employ whose sole
duty it is to circulate among the bargain
hunters and nip in the bud any attempt to
surreptitiously appropriate the FIRMS
goods 1t has been demonstrated that
one male and two or three female detec
tives are sufficient to watch over the
largest store in the city. II is seldom
that an arrest is made. because 1t Is the
business of these lynx-eyed individuals
to keep a sharp lookout for those who
have the unhappy penchant for appropri-
ating things that are not thier own, and
thus prevent theft and not to punish it.
EIdnlidI prosperity 4NAihtAA6 lucthOQo
1t is the hour Of the crush in one of the
largest Market street stores. Crowds of
bargain-hunting women surge up and
down along the long sitting aisles The
cry of the salespeoples the chatter of the
cash girls, the noise OF scuffiing, hurrying
feet the hum Of conversation rising TO
insist upon bargains here and there-all
v,ai, IL In n onUfueAd FshdUeH
At one of the busiest counters, where
are piled high rich and costly laces, hold
ing their own against the elbowing, irri-
tated, feverish. ceaselessly moving throng,
are pair of fashionably dressed women.
Both perhaps wearing diamonds, but they
are not conspicuously displayed. They are
quiet of demeanor; nothing by look or
action would separate them, so far as the
superficial view would reveal, from hun
dreds Of others in that eddyng elamorous
mass.
Evidently one OF the women Is the pur-
chaser. the other merely accompanying
her. They consult over possible pur-
chases. These completed they give the d.
rection TO the saleslady. The price is
high. They consult their pocketboolSs and
discover they have not sufficient change
about them.
please to send the goods c. O. D. to-
morrow. II win be abundant time"
her agreeable customers TO come again.
They reply with a charming smile aud are
lost in the crowd. Unnoticed, after them
wanders a pretty, blue-eyed girl. She has
been standing near them, purse In hand
at the counter, rather wistfully cycling
their purchases, wondering, no doubt n
she win have money enough some day
70 do as they. Her hair is golden ana hangs
pendant IN a plait down her back Her
eyes arc largo and big with all the limo
cence Of a school girl taunty sailor hat
caps a trim and attractive figure
The women from the counter move to-
ward the door The little SRI is not far
behind. ~ you had looked closoly~aome-
thing you would never have thought Of
d0inR~y0n might have seen q sharp. keen
eyed young man cycling abe girl closely n
sou lad been 40 attractive observer you
might have seen this innocent, biue-eyad
little girl nod sharply 80 the two women
AZ they pass our, end then turn ous her