New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-07
( MONDAY, )
SEPTEMBER z, 1885,;
I SHREWD WOMAN PICKPOCKET.
HOW SHE TRIED TO DIVERT DETECTlVES
ATTENTION FROM HER WHILE SHE
ROBBED SHOPPERS.

woman calling herself Annie Kumpf twenty
years old. who said she lived In Brooklyn out
declined to say what street or avenue, attired
In natty bicycle costume. was remanded IN
Yorkville Court yesterday by Magistrate Flammer
a charge of picking pockets.
She went to Bloominedale's store at No. LOCO
Third-ave., on her wheel Saturday afternoon
last. Tripping up to Private Detective George
Oestreicher she murmured;
Aren't you the detective here?"
on being assured that such the case. Miss
Kumpf. in low. confidential tones said:
do you that young woman in a blue waist
over by the jewelry COUNTER
Oestrecher admitted that he the woman.
We'll she has just stolen two gold stick-pins.
I stood close beside her and her do It. think
you should keep eye on her" and she smiled
sweetly upon the detective.
II am quite grateful to you" replied Oestreicher.
II will look out for the woman and keep eye on
her you suggested"
He kept an eye upon the young woman In blue
while Miss Kumpf tripped away chuckling. to
think how nicely she had hoodwinked the detec-
tive so that she could have full swing herself
Oestreicher had recognized Miss Kumpf the
ment she entered the store as "A noted pckpocket
whose picture in the Roeues' Gallery is No 2.272
So. while one eye was on the blue waist" the
other eye by no means idle. The detective
saw Miss Kumpf approach the linen counter
mngle with the crowd congregatcd there. and in
less than minute she had taken purse from the
pocket OF Mrs Zeimer customer who lives at
Sixty fourth-st and LeXington-avc
AS the girl moved away Oesrecher walked up to
Mrs Zeimcr and asked If she had lost anything
She put her hands TO her side and said her pocket
book was gone
Wait here" said the detective land will try
to recover it,"
He walked over to where Miss Kumpf was taking
mental notes of another party of He
asked her to accompany him. She readily ac-
quiesced, and he led her to where Mrs Zeimer
was waiting. Miss Kumpf still carried the pocket
Zeimer as her property Oestreicher then told Miss
kumpf she was under
, What are you going TO do with me now" asked
the prisoner
I'm going to lock you up. and then I'm coming
back to watch the blue waist -
AT this Miss kumpf laughed heartily and said:
Well, you are shrewd one. | must say"
the young woman locked up in the East
she was arraigned in Yorkville Court yeste,-'ay
Oestreicher said that Mrs Zeimer would no, be
able to appear in court till to-day.
Al this Special Detectives Farley and Campbell
and said that Captain - Brien of the Detective
Bureau had been looking for the Kumpf woman
for long time. There are four compainants who
ne thinks. can identify the prisoner
The woman has quite record. She was first
arrested about five years ago in Sixth-ave by
Detectives OBrien and McCauley for picking
pockets she was sentenced for twelve months
at that time. She subsequently served two years
months in the Kings County Penitentiary Farley
sald one OF the compldnants had identified the
girls photograph: He intends placing her with
other women at Headquarters to-day in the hone
that she Will be fully identified by all the com
painants Magistrate Flammer remanded her In
the custody ~ the two detectives.