The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-29
SHOPLIFlERS CAPTURED.
LARGE AMOUNT OF STOLEN
 GOODS

Found at Home of Mother and Young
 Daushter-Owing to Judge Dow's
 Ruling, as to Establishing 0wner-
 ship, Goods Arc Not Removed to Pos
 lice Staticn--Coupie We're Captured
 While Stealing In afaI,ey's store--Sir.
 Fleming Has Experience With Pistol
 -shopIifters Had About $2O Worth
 of Goods When Arrested.
 That the ruling of Judge Dow yester- day in the shoplifting cases of Rosa Abato and Appollonia orsini is going
 to make a difference in the way the police will handle these eases in the future was demonstrated last night when Detectives Dennehy and Frey arrested Mrs. Annie Powell and also her daughter, Anna, and charged them with shoplifting. The aecIsion which has made the difference was that tes- timony given by fioorwalkers that goods are missing from stores and are
 later found will not be accepted as suf- ficient evidence to convict snoplifters, although the goods are in their pos session. 7
 Late yesterday afternoon the two de- tectives captured the woman and her daughter in Malley's store just after
 the mother had stolen lady's red sack
 coat valued at $2 and passed it to her daughter. who started to run off with Fit
 The two prisoners were taken tc detective headquarters and examined
 by Sergeant Denneliy. T. !. Fleming of the Edward MaIley company was
 also present at the station house to ideFtify other goods found in the pos session of the prisoners. The mother gave her address first as being on Woes
 ter street and Detective Frey and Mr,
 Fleming went to the address and dis covered that the woman had given a false one. They then telephoned to headquarters, and the woman gave
 another address which also proved to
 be wrong. This sort of thing was kept up nearly three hours, during
 which the officer and MT. Fleming wis
 tied nearly every section of the city Finally the girl said that their home was at Stevens court, and this was found to be correct.
 When the officer and MT. Fleming ar. rived there they found the father in the house. He claimed not to know anything about his wife's actions or that of the child. A search was com meneed and a great quantity of dry goods was found there of all kinds and description, MT. Fleming identified the goods as coming from the Malley store but as the tags had been removed this evidence was lacking. While exanlin- ling a trunk in which was a lot of the goods, Mr. Fleming came across a load, ed revolver which he started to place on bed in the room. As he did so the
 man made an attempt to get it, and as he did so MT. Fleming took 1t and put 1t In his pocket, saying that he guessed that he would take care of ii for awhile at least. It was taken to police headquarters.
 Despite the fact that MT. Fleming stated that he was positive that the goods, for the most part, belonged al his store, 1t was decided after con ference to leave them at the house or account of Judge Dow's decision yes terday morning and this was done. MT Fleming said that the goods would
 amount to a good deal over $500 ir value. Detective Frey said that he did
 not feel that it was his place to remove the goods last night, owing to the de. cision until he had consulted his super. for, Captain Cowles, this morning
 Whether the captain will order the goods brought to police headquarters or not, is not known. They remained where they were found last night, how ever.
 The goods which were found on tho prisoners by the police, however, art
 held as evidence, and they are accused of stealing just that amount at the present time. The goods, the police say, consisted of twenty yards of white silk goods. valued at $10, a baby car valued at $3.50 twenty yards of lace valued at $5 and the ladys house coat The woman, after being locked up complained of being very i'll and Dr Kenna was summoned. He said that the woman was undoubtedly i'll, but that she might be shamming a little He said that it was nothing serious
 however. The girl said that she was fifteen years old and that she had ur
 to two weeks ago worked at Benton's raper box shop. She also said that uI to a month ago the family resided 1T Hartford, although they had formerly
 resided in this city.
 A number of lawyers when consulted about Judge Dow's opinion yesterday said that 1t was undoubtedly correct although 1t will be considerable hardship to the sterekeepers.
 The girl was locked up at the Organ. fixed Charities over night