Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-01-08
THE FEMALE THIEF
Kate Spring Admits Stealing an
So Lace Collar.
PLUMBER FOUND IN HER TRUNK

Disappearance OF Other Valuable Goods
From Her Place Of Work Attributed to
Her-Her Preliminary Hearing Contin-
ued-The Maynard Girl in Jail.
Continuation in the preliminary
examination of Kate Spring on a
charge of larceny was taken in the
police court yesterday afternoon I'M
til tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock.
Katie is the 16-year-old miss accused
of misappropriating goods belonging
to her employer. Mrs. Charles Brad
ley, 29l0 Seventh avenue. She is
rather neat and intelligent appearing
girl of diminutive build. dark hair
and piercing eyes. According to her
statement she came to Rock Island
about eighteen months ago from
Montrose, H., where she has n father
and step-mother.
Father was good to me, but /
never could get along with my step
mother" explained Kate. 1--WE were
always quarreling. So packed my
trunk and left. So did my other sis
tiers. They couldn't get along with
her either" II is also said that the
girls father is well fixed financially.
Coming to Rock Island Kate secured
employment as domestic. She has
held many situations since her stay
here, being apparently of an unset
tied nature. While working at the
residence of S. Is. Stoddard. 73S
Twenty-third street, she was known
as Kate Springer.
Changes Her Name.
But at her last place of employ
ment she represented herself as
Kate Spring. simply dropping the
er. So here is a bad point against
Kate, who also admits that her
moral character is not beyond re-
proach.
Sometime after the arrival of the
new domestic acquisition the Brad
ley household began missing valu-
able articles, such as table linen,
etc. Goods continued to disappear
until an inventory showed the abb
scence of dozen napkins, two Irish
point lace pillow shams, a lace col
lar and some costly ribbons, the
whole valued at something like
$50. Kate was suspected and Bailiff
S. S. Hull was engaged to watch the
young lady and endeavor to recover
the stolen property. If he could ac-
+complish this without prosecuting
the girl it would have been ali the
more satisfactory, as the family did
not care to bring disgrace on her if
it could be avoided. Monday Bailiff
Hull visited the Bradley residence.
While there messenger from an in
telligence Office came with a note for
Kate, who was DESTROYS of obtaining
another place OF employment, and
the note bore the wanted informa-
ton. Kate dropped her work and
was preparing to leave when arrested
by Bailiff Hull, who then proceeded
to look up the missing property.
Searches Hates Trunk.
In searching Hates trunk the lace
collar and ribbon were found stored
away in the bottom of it. The girl
admitted stealing the collar and said
she had simply taken the ribbon to
EN- beilish her dance costumes, in
tending to return it. The girl per-
sisted in her ignorance of the where
abouts of the other missing property,
which it is supposed she has either
sold or given away. Kate was then
placed in the county Jail and left
with her thoughts over night with
the hope that she would confess
stealing the other goods. But in
the morning she was as determined
As ever. So Mr.. Hull swore a war
rant out against her charging her
with larceny. She is still behind the
bars in default of 5000 bail imposed
by Magistrate Schroeder pending
her examination tomorrow. Kate
will probably relent and tell what
she is suspected of knowing before
her trial. If the girl confesses
everything she is supposed to know,
some startling developments are ex-
pected. Looney & Kelly have been
enpaVed to defend Kate.