Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-03-02
VALUE OF A STORE MIRROR.
Aids in the Detection of Those Who
Are Given to che Practice
of ThicVint.

81 don't believe that we could get
| tlong without that mirror at the back
IF the shop" said the druggist TO a Gus
pmer who questioned the wisdom Of X
lending so much money upon orc big
| piece of plate glass, the New York Tines
says: Still, it did not save US trcm
.osing another lot of plasters IRE otheT
lay, now that the plaster thieves are
jut of Jail.
"You never heard of the plaster
| .hieves? Well, | wish | hadn't. No, il
s not that people are in special need CT
being plastered up, but plasters arc
Easy things to take. You can get a eccd
Teal of value in one big fiat bcI CT Has
ters. There is no individual mark on
them to prevent their being sold agan
md they are lighter and easier to carry
han bottles. Plaster stealing has be
come a regular business. A couple OF
young fellows who have made us their
victims several times were sent up to
serve q term for the offense. We Lnow
they are out again now, Tor they paid
us a visit only the other day and tcoko h
A few boxes in the same cid way. You
wouldn't think VIC could he caught half Z
dozen times, mbirrcr or 10 mirrCr, but
we have been.
81 was taken in the first time. Two
Young fellows came in and gave re a
small order that took me away for o few
minutes and while ] turned my back
they put several boxes Of plasters under
their coats and walked out with them,
and | didn't know it for some time. |
remembered them, however, and the
next time | CHANGED to come in just ss
some one else had taken a small ordcr,
but that time | was in time to keep them
rom taking anything. 1t wasn't long
before they we're in again, however, and
that time they were caught. II was the
mirror that did it, for the man who wait
ed on them was Il who did not know
them. But he saw o suspicious move
ment, pounced upon them, made them
put down half a dozen boxes and told
them if they ever dared to show their
faces again in the place he would throw
them out. They have been in Jail since,
but now they are out and we have suf-
fered once more. What do you think of
hat for persistence and cheek? They
have a regular fences for these things.
but it is not the regular thieves that
we have to be most careful to guard
against, though it was one who took n
of the first things | missed after I had
been in the business. There was a big
bottle of quinine pills standing on the
top of the screen behind which we put
up the prescriptions. 1t held 500 pills
and they were more expensive then than
they are now. stopped back of the
counter to get the salve that had been
ordered, and the man reached up and
slipped this into his pocket and | was
none the wiser for a long time. | didn't
suspect him at first. ] thought one of
the doctors who came in frequently had
taken it.
Doctors take such things? Well, |
guess so. Take a doctor who has a drug
habit Of some kind and there is not much
he will not take that he can get his
hands on, if it is in his line. And then
there are other people and always chill
dren who can't resist picking up some
thing that is lying so conveniently with
in reach. No, a mirror is a necessity
when you have to have half your stock
of goods lying around on the counter"