The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-16
A SLICK FEMALE THIEF
CAPTURED YESTERDA BY PA.
 TROLMEN LA WLOR AND ALIEN.
Charged With Theft of S53 from George BeIcher, SalOonkeoper-Found by
 the Officers by Means of DescriptioM- Her Husband Received stolen Money,

the Officers by Means of Description | Nellie Fahy and her husband, Daniel
 Fahy who lived in a furnished room on I Dixwell avenue, were arrested yester-
 day morning by Patromen Lawlor and
 John Allen on the charge of theft of $53
 saloonkeeper Saturday night Mr. Bel
 cher had taken his nights receipts from
 the money drawer and put it in his hip
 pocket to take home The money was
 in two rolls of bills, one containing $53
 and the other $27. Soon after he had
 taken the money from the cash register,
 about l1:30, woman entered the office
 of the saloon and called for a glass of
 Deer. MT. Belcher served her and while
 he stood in the office two men went out
 the door of the saloon. MT. Belcher
 leaned over to see who it was having
 his back to the woman. After he had
 closed the saloon for the night he went home and, according to his custom, told his wife where he had placed the nights recejpts-in the hip pocket of his trous- CTS. Mrs. Belcher keeps the cash &C., count for him and when yesterday morning she went to get the money she found that there was only one roll of bills, amounting to s27, instead of the two rolls, containing $S0, as MT. Belcher had told her.
 She at once informed MT. Belcher that part of the money was missing. He at once thought of the woman who was in the saloon the night before and con- cluded that she had extracted the larger roll of bills from his hip pocket when he had leaned over to see who was going out of the saloon. He informed Patrol man Lawlor of the loss of the money and his suspicious about 5:30 yesterday morning. He gave description of the woman and said that he did not know her name, but knew that her husband formerly kept a saloon on Dixwell ave- nue.
 Lawor and Allen at once went to work on the case From the descrip- tion of the woman they suspected that she was Mrs. Fahy. The two policemen and MT. Belcher went to the Fahys' apartments about o'clock in the morn ing. The policemen and Mr. Belcher entered their room and Mrs. Fahy told Belcher that if he would leave the room a minute and sent the policemen away she would give him back the money, admitting that she had taken it. The three left the room, but Lawlor opened the door little bit and saw Mrs. Fahy take a roll of bills from her stocking and hand it to her husband. Lawlor and Allen then went into the room, and Fahy told his wife that she had better go with them. He told the policemen to search her if they thought she had the money, not thinking that they had seen her hand it to him. He was much sur prised when he was told that not only his wife but he also must go to police 
 As they were going into the police sta- ton Lawlor saw Fahy put a roll of bills inside his vest. He was searched and two rolls of bills were found upon him, one containing $9 and the other $39. The where they roomed told Law for that late Saturday night MT. Fahy handed her bill to pay for a weeks room rent. Mrs Fahy thought that the pill was a two-dollar bill, but the land- ady later noticed that it was five-dol- ar bill This accounted for the entire -$53-that was taken from MT. Belcher.
 The couple will appear in the city court this morning.