The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-09
Trick OF SNEAK THEE.
she Robs Women Who Have Rooms q
Rent.

IN - W "O"Fh VIM
Rent.
There are countless ways for the pro-
f~essional sneak thief to enter a resi-
dence. but the little game now being
played by a woman in all portions OF
the city Is about as shrewd as any dis
covered in several years. The people
who rent rooms are the ones who suffer
from the woman's ability to gain an
entrance, and Ahe following story was
related by a north side lnndlady last
week:
Il have found 81 a hard matter TO rent
my rooms this summer, and, as l am
dependent upon them for my living, l
not only advertise in the papers, but
answer all ads which seem to strike
the tenor OF my own. Last Sunday j an
swArsd one which wanted two rooms en-
suite. I got II in early, and 1t nus
have beer sne of the first received by
the advertiser. i did not hear from the
answer, however, until wednesday
when late in the afternoon a woman
called.
lyon replied to my 'ad' in Sundays
paper which stated my desire to rent
two connecting rooms she said. L have
called TO see them
IT asked her in. and as I did so i nos
ticed. that she seemed TO be very ner-
yous. AS soon as we entered the room
she dropped on the sofa and laid down
| several parcels beside her. She did not
seem to take much interest In the
rooms, although she sat looking from
one into the other. She said she wanted
them ight away, and that she thought
the prices were reasonable enough. She
kept tanning herself with her handker-
chief, and finally said.
"I am really suffering greatly from
and fatigue. Can l ask You
to be so kind as to get me a glass OF
water?'
II could not fathom the woman and
as 1 left the room i motioned TO my
daughter, who was standing in the nan,
to go into the room with her. My daugh-
ter was fastening the neck OF her dress
and waited out in the hall to nnish
hooking II. and I got back with the
water lust as she was going into the
room. As we went in the woman was
standing in front of the dressing case,
and on hearing US returning she began
10 look attentively at herself In the
glass.
"She turned around and took the glass
of water, and then set II down on the
dressing case, r~emarking as she did so:
You will excuse me- won't you, II
/ get out some medicine to drop into
this? My husband says women are 81
foolish TO carry things in their stockings
but this bottle ] can't carry in my peck
ct. as | am liable to sit down upon II.
While n had talked she a taken tn
bottle out, and had poured a few drop
into the water. This contains a sooth
ing and quieting draught,' she said, ant
my doctor says in time ii will cure TIM
excessive nervousness. She drank hal
the contents of the glass, and then re
turned TO the subject OF the rooms.
told her that / desired references, an
she said she would furnish the bes'
1t is so late, though, now. 1 am afral'
/ shall have TO go, but Will you call u
Harrison tomorrow morning? L ca
then give you several names of peopl
TO apply TO. But. l had nearly forgot
ten TO give you my name. 1t Is BEN
Mrs. Bent. Now. please do no neglec
to call me up by phone
with that the woman walked to tn
door, and thanking me for the grea
kindness | had lone her. n LETT.
''The next morning my daughter wen
to the telephone and called up Harrison
asking for Mrs. Bent. She was tol
. that there was no one there by tina
: name. Then she called up several Once
where the name vas given as Bent, pu
could learn nothing of u mysterlou
: visitor of the day before.
, "When she returned home we wer
into the rooms and found that the won
, an had stolen a long gold orgnet'
chain and several small stick pin
: which had been under the pln-cushlo
: on the dressing case. OF course 81
I never came back, and we got no trace
: her"