The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-10-30
SUMMER HOTEL EPISODE.
Mysterious Disappearance of GUEST
Valuables Traced to a Girl
kleptomaniac.

A series of thefts began weeks ago il
country hotel occupied chiefly by New
Workers who want to be near the city
About 800 persons were in the hotel
states the Sun.
Jewelry, chiefly, was taken. Silvel
from bureaus, small ornaments ant
various articles of value disappeared
One woman lost jewelry worth mors
than $4,000, but the average loss wal
not so high.
When it became known that THE.
was in the house, the guests were NOR,
careful of their possessions and som,
of the women sent their jewelry to tbs
city. The local police were called in, de
clared that the thefts were COMMITTEES
by somebody in the house and hat
later the satisfaction of hearing Their
opinion backed up by the detective.
brought down from the city to see
they could not identify the thief
Two days after the arrival of the tw,
city men the thefts ended as inexplic
ably as they had begun. The detective
took their departure. The more valu
able jewelry stolen from the rooms wa
returned to it's owners.
There were no explanations beyon,
! the fact that the detectives had foun.
some of the property. Most of tn
guests were glad enough to get hold
what they had lost and were Statistic.
with the meager explanations made b.
the hotel proprietor
Life was going on there in the usua
way when woman and her youn
daughter who had been stopping in tn
hotel month went away. The rumo
started that this girl, still in her teen,
was the thief.
1t travelled about in whispers until
could no longer be kept down to a sub
| dued key. 1t had to come out. 1t die
| and the landlord admitted that Their
was connection more or less definit
between the departure of this youn
girl and the robberies that had take
place two weeks before.
She was believed to be kleptomaniat
| unable to control her tendencies, an,
had, it seems, previously got her famiE
into similar scrapes. The thefts begai
with her arrival and came to an en-
| when one of the detectives, flndin
traces of the young woman in every cas-
they investigated, told the proprietor
who in turn spoke to the father.
The father is a wealthy man and Their
was no reason in the world why the gil
| should have stolen. The discovery
this fact was surprising enough, al
though what happened afterwar
proved still more astonishing to som
Of the guests of the hotel
The proprietor insisted that the younl
girl should leave. although she indig
nantly denied her guilt and declares
that the jewelry had been put In he
| room by an enemy with the idea @
damaging her. The rest of the family
with the exception of her mother. fiat
ly refused to go.
There were no charges against them
! and there were no grounds on whicl
| they could be elected. So they stoo
on their rights and the father and sew
eral other daughters are still guests
the hotel. They associate with the vic
| Tins of the thefts. refer casually to tn
departure of their sister and motbe,
do not hesitate to mention the tbefts
| the subject comes up. and are apparent
ly enjoying themselves as much as the,
ever were
Whether their conduct is intended
dec"ive the other guests or they do NO
desire to be disturbed in their summe
plans is something that the rest of tn
guests have not been able to fatbom
But the indifference of the family unde
the circumstances is cause Of cease
less amazement.