The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-29
ELUSIVE DOMESTIC CAUGHT
STEALING FROM SEVERAL FAM
lilies IN SIT. PAUL
Would Go to. Work One Day and
Disappear the Next-When De-
tectives Failed, Deputy Sheriff
Flanagan Rounded Her Up.

After the police department had failed
in a months search to apprehend the
young woman who is wanted for robbing
houses where she obtained employment
as domestic, Deputy Sheriff Flanagan
Yesterday arrested the party in the per-
son OF Annie Gallagher, alias Annie
Murdoch, supposed to have done the
work. He found her in hiding at Pigs
Eye. The accomplishment of Deputy
Sheriff Flanagan, where the entire police
and detective department failed, shows
the girl to DO the same person who was
In custody several weeks ago, but none
of the detectives recognized her as the
domestic Of whose operations dozens of
reports bad been received and she was
allowed to go to continue her operations.
The girls arrest was due to her latest
alleged offeDse, the theft of a silk dress
skirt and silk waist at the Clarendon
hotel. Proprietor John Clark swore out
warrant for her arrest and notified tina
police. He also requested Sheriff Wag-
ener to put Deputy Sheriff Flannigan on
the case. Deputy Sheriff Flanagan got
trace Of the girl without much difficulty
and went to Minneapolis after her. She
had left the place a short time before his
arrival. He returned to St. Paul and
started for Pigs Eye, where, at the
home Of frtend of hers he found her,
She was brought to ST. Paul and locked
UP at the county jail.
In the arrest of the girl a story Of un-
usual aptitude for theft in one so young
Is disclosed. When first heard of the
young woman was operating on st. Anth-
ony hin. She secured employment at sew
e1al houses. In each case she suddenly
left and at the same time valuable prop
erty was missed.
Finally definite track of the girl was
gotten at the home Of Jacob Haas, $50
Park avenue where she had remained a
short time and then disappeared, taking
with her, it is alleged, Dress and a NUM-
Der of articles Of jeWelry. She left her
trunk at the Haas home, but was later
heard of at the residence Of John w
Taylor, at White Bear lake. She was dis
charged there, but fell into the hands of
the police through attempting to use Mrs.
Taylor's name. The girl went to St.
Paul dry goods store, where she ordered
SAC worth Of goods, claiming to be making
the purchase for Mrs. Taylor. She wanted
to take the goods herself, but the f1r1n
would not consent to this and sent the
order to Mrs. Taylor. Mrs. Taylor in
formed the firm that she had commits
stoned no one to make such a purchase
for her and the matter was reported to
the police. Later the girl was arrested
and taken into the municipal court.
When she was arraigned in court sew
eral women interceded for her and she
was not prosecuted. Thu girl represented
that She wanted to reform and Clerk Of
the Courts Conroy, being in need of
domestic for his family, sent the girl to
his wife. Mrs. Conroy employed her, but
1t was not long before she disappeared
and Mrs Conroy discovered that her
wedding ring, q feather boa and $13 In
money was also missing.
The girls next known adventure
was at the Clarendon hotel, where her
alleged theft led to her arrest yesterday
by Deputy Sheriff Flanagan.
The prisoner is rather q prepossessing
appearing young woman, about nineteen
yeers Of age. She says her home Is at
Gladstone, Mich.