New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-30
A RICH WOMAN ARRESTED.
GRAND LARCENY CHARGE.
Taken at Home IN Central Park
West-Had Mental Trouble.

Fashionably attired. Miss Emma Page daugh-
ter of William c. Page. senior member of the
hrm OF Page. Dennis & Co. scale manufacturers
of No. 341 Broadway. was locked in a cell in
the West Thirtieth-st. station last night charged
with grand larceny in obtaining goods to the
value Of $3.50 in the name of others from a
Sixth-ave. department store Miss Page ia
. thirty-eight years old.
Miss Page said she Mrs Helen Davis of
Prospect-st, Orange, n. J." There is no Pros
pect-st in Orange. it was learned. She was ar
rested late in the afternoon in the home of her
parents, a handsomely furnished apartment in
No. 16 Central Park West. Miss Page insisted
that no word of what had happened be revealed
to her mother. who is slightly ill., or her father.
Detective Larkin in the station had what he
said was a full confession signed by Miss Page
in the office of the Sixth-ave firm and in the
presence of members of the firm
At the station Miss Page wore a black broad
cloth suit, with hat to match. and a black
cream dotted veil She had with her $500 In
banknotes. and Jewels worth perhaps twice that
USED NAMES OF OTHERS.
Detective LarlIn said that in August Miss
Page selected $SS worth of laces toilet articles
and other goods in the Sixth-ave store, saying
she was Miss Marguerite Hall. a singer The
salesgirl satisfied herself that Miss Hall had an
to Miss Page, Detective Larkn says Miss Page
said she would take the goods with her. as she
wanted them for immediate use month later
Miss Hall repudated the bill sent her The
case was then turned over to Larkn.
In December. Detective Larkin saws Miss
Page represented herself TO another sa lesgirl as
Mrs. Grace Richardson. of No. II West Seventy
fourth-st.. and selected cloak, toilet articles
and other goods to the value of SIT These
el-A
Wednesday said she had not ordered them
Meanwhile the members of the firm and De-
tective Larkin had admitted that they were
hafied. When he learned that Mrs Richardson
had repudiated responsibility for the bill sent
to her, Larkin obtained from the two salesgirls
who had sold the goods a. minute description
of the purchaser. He took into his confidence
the store detectives of several other firms
detective OF another store thought the person
described might be Miss Page. who is said to
have an account in her own name in the store
the latter detective represents
HOW THE ARREST Is MADE
Larkin. with the two salesgirls, went TO the
neighborhood Of the Page home By a subter-
fuge one Of the girls gained access to the Page
apartments and Miss Page. She returned
to Larkin and told him Miss Page was the
young woman who Aad purchased the goods
valued at S6S in the name OF Miss Hall. Larkin
sent the second salesgirl. She represented her
self as an embroidery agent. She also saw Miss
Page and said that Miss Page was the one who
had purchased SIT worth of goods in the
name of Mrs Richardson Then Larkin decided
to make the arrest. He represented himself as
a physician and entered the Page apartments
When LarlIin told who he he says that
Miss Page became indignant and said:
How dare you enter here under false pre-
tences? don't know what your business with
is. and I don't wish to have anything to do
with You. Yor-will please go at once"
Larl1in says he then told Miss Page that the
two young women who preceded him in visiting
the Page apartments were salesgrls employed
by the store and that they had fully identified
her. Larkin says that then Miss Page told him
she had obtained the goods and that Miss Hall
and Mrs Richardson friends of hers
When Larhin told her that neither Miss Hall
nor Mrs. Richardson could appear in the case,
he says. she broke down and cried and confessed
in detail. She said. Larkin declares. that she
obtained the goods in the names Of others. not
intending to defraud the store. but because she
had little money with her when in the store and
had charged the goods to the others without
thinking OF tfle consequences. Miss Page. Lar
kin says, offered to pay for the goods on the
spot Larkin explained that he had no author
ity to do anything but arrest her
Miss Pa ge showed no concern when Larkin
led her TO where he had left the two salesgirs.
Then he took her to the office of the firm in the
department store Members OF the firm said
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