Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-27

A lady the wife Of Navy Yard employe,
lost s35 in the Kings Palace while shop
ping and thereby hangs a tale.
Her husband who owns some three hun
dred thousand acres of land in Kentucky
and Virginia, and who It may be stated is land
poor when he might have been million
aire, but for the options he has given pro-
their expectations, recently received some
money as part payment on one of these
options His wife desiring to do some
shopping drew 500 from Mr. Hazleton, and
dividing the sum into two unequal amounts
she put SIS IN one compartment of her
pocketbook and SIS In another The for
mer amount she intended spending at the
Kings Palace. Her pocketbook had inner
clasps on each compartment where she
placed her money The pocketbook she
placed in her pocket aud pinned the pocket
Thus secure she walked from Mr.. Halle
toms to the store and commenced examin-
ing the goods. She unpinned her pocket
and placed the pocketbook on the counter.
When through with the lady clerk who
waited on her and not having yet completed
further articles she wanted were in another
department Of the store, she therefore
opened her pockctbook to settle with the
lady clerk and discovered to her amaze.
ment that the s35 was missing.
Some Que had touched her, but who
il could be she had not, of course, any Ger.
cain conviction. She had the money in her
pocketbook aud the pocketbook pinned in
fana sasf.a .Is
There was no m.stake 30 faa The twenty
five dollars were in the com mpartment of the
pocketbook where SHE had placed that
amount, but the s35 were gone She ac.
quainted the clerk with her loss and the
clerk gave the alarm The proprietors Of
the place invited her upstairs TO the pri.
yate room and insinuated that she was mis-.
taken and must have lost the money com.
ing to the store. They summoned a detec.
tive from police headquarters and this
official, after hearing her story assured her
that she must have left tit at MI Hazleton's
On her protesting against this theory of the
sleuth's 5, he pooh-poohed her objections and
said; why, Mr. Hazleton is now on his
way TO your house with the money, and you
will find it there when YOU return home"
But the ladyreplied: "Mr Hazleton knew
I was coming here, and II I left the money
at his place he would bring it to me here
and not go to my house, besides l know
that placed the s35 in the compartment Of
my pocket.book and Immediately placed it
in my pocket after fastening the clasp.
There can be no mistake, sir, about il, the
money was taken out of my pocket-book
while it was lying on the counter, and the
thief is i'm this store, whether AN employee
or not / cannot say
Further investigation by the lady her
husband and Mr. Hazlcton, resulted in the
latter calling at the King Palace TO see the
propretors and ascertain If they would
make good the loss. This they peremptorily
declined to do. Then Mr. Hlzleton sug-
gested that the lady should be given out of
the articles She purchased a single dress for
herself but all the proprietors would con.
sent 20 do was To- throw OFF their profits on
the garment This proposition was de-
clined as throwing OIL the profits" was
equivalent to doing nothing by way of re-
imhursemcnt
And thus the matter stands; the lady is
out S35 but she feels the treatment she re-
ceived by both the proprietors and the de-
tecrive much more keenly than the loss of
the money, TO be doubted and treated with
suspicion, even by the official called IN to
investigate her loss. has wounded her
spirit more deeply than the loss of the
money has her present slender re-
sources.
What further steps, If any, will be taken
In the matter, have not yet been de-
termiued.