The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-29
TRIO Of clever THIEVES
EVIDENCE AGAINST THE SHOP
LETTERS IS ACCUMU-
LATINO
THEIR WORK WAS sYTEMATIc
Goods to the Value of $4,000 Have
Been Recovered-Two of the
Women Are Well known
Crooks.

Inc st. Paul police station is at pres
ent the abode of three of the cleverest
female shoplifters west of Chicago.
They are the trio arrested Tuesday
evening at the Union depot by Detectives
Murnane, Lavalle and O'Brien, and as
the days grow apace the evidence nee
essary to place them beyond public view
for some years to come, grows in i'm
portance.
-Four telescope grips located in the bag
gage room of the Union depot the night
they were arrested, and each filed with
feminine raiment of the most costly
make, was sufficient to show that the
! capture was good one, but as bundle
after bundle is brought to view, it's i'm
portance increases.
Yesterday, Chief O'Connor was inform
ed that the women had forwarded lot
Of goods to. Chicago, and a systematic
search brought to light the fact that two
large bundles had been sent via the
American Express, the consignee being
one Of the three women, who had called
in the afternoon. Two visits were made
by the women and the bundles they car
red We're obligingly done up into one
large bundle by the clerk and forwarded
TO the address given, William Smell, No.
5, South Clark street
A telegram to Chicago promptly stop
ped their delivery, return message to
Chief O'Connor informing him Of the
contents of the same; consisting in the
main of dress goods and feminine articles
and two fine sealskin sacques. The two
sacqueS were subsequently traced as be-
Ing from the store of Mannheimer Bros,
whence they had been stolen Tuesday
afternoon.
The plumber taken from the grips,
which consisted of four garments. q
w toy OI1i1
of costly dress goods and trinkets ir-
Vulnerable, was spread out at the station
yesterday, and the representatives of the
several big department stores in St Pau
given an opportunity of indentifying the
articles
Representatives from Manufacturer
Bros, Field. Schlick & Co., Schune-
man & Evans; Park Department store
Foster & Co., the two latter from La
Crosse, were present, and with little
trouble unearthed from the costly array,
goods thac lad been displayed on their
cf.U4.te:S
The La Crosse firms were touched
heavily, the greater part of the dress
goods coming from the Park store, an6
n { automobile coat which was a pretty
garment, being Recognized as the proper
~ OF Foster & Co. These goods were
taken Monday, and the represen tatiIe,
with little trouble gave description of
the three dashing women who were
credited with the haul.
Last night further evidence was
brought to light by the finding of a grip
ana bundle in room at the Ryan
hotel, where the trio had stopped Mon1ay
night, arriving about 1915. The bell boy
who showed them their room, they gave
their names as Mesdames Wilson, Wa~d
and Jones, all Of Madison, Wis, and
asked him to register for them. Their
departure the next morning and failure
to return aroused suspicion, and the po-
lice were notified.
The grip, which proved to be the prop.
erty of Aialy Ann Sullivan, contained tit
tie OF an discriminating nature, the con
tents corss sting of a number of bottles
OF medicine and some toilet articles. tt e
bundle. however, contained stuff similar
TO that found in the telescopes; stockings,
nlghtgoWns, underwear and remnants OF
ribbon, being found in abundance.
Chief OConnor is confident that the
women arrived on the ''Dutchman, -
though the North Western arrives at the
same hour.
Underwear of the most costly make
seems to nave struck their fancy 1t
was easy to hide and besides could be
taken from. a bundle with little fear of
detection Cloaks and numerous peck
cts in their skirts and clothing offered
a favorite hiding place for the plumber
The identity of one of the women is
in doubt, though the names of the other
two were easily secured by reference TO
the Rogues' gallery and the criminal
records. Mary Ann Sullivan was recog-
nized as an old offender, under the alias
of Mary Ann, the Gun" Chicago, New
York and all the big cities having wit
messed her clever work. Clara Martin
proved to be Mollie Morris, a worker
whom Milwaukee, and cities n
compelled her to seek other fields. Eta
Miller the third, has so far baffed the
police in learning her identity, though
she is tho light to be the wife of Harry
Perry, well known to the Chicago po-
lice
The plumber up to date amounts in
value in the neighborhood of $1,000, and
the police would not be in the least
surprised to see it swelled by the finding
of additional goods. The party to whom
the goods were shipped to at Chicago is
a notorious fence"
At the store of the Golden Rule con-
siderable goods have been missing of
late but a careful search of the stock
at the station fails to reveal anything
belonging to that firm.
The three women take their arrest in
a matter-of-fact way and refuse to say
anything that will incriminate them
MARY, the Cum however, seems quite
vindictive and scores the storekeepers
whom she calls hogs. She says she
never wronged poor person.
The women will probably be given a
hearing Friday in the police court. In
the meantime kilograms will be sent to
surrounding cities and further search
made for stolen goods 50 as to streng tn
en- the chain of evidence that the police
now possess.