Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
GIRL STEALS TO
PLEASE FRIEND
REMARKABLE CONFESSION OF
A CASHIER
comstocks Postal Card Raids-ItalIan
ckmaIlers-Toys for Christ
mas Trade-Working Girls
Helped to Save Money
Special to The Herald.

ing, confidential cashier for the New
York branch of the Larkin company
of Buffalo, at 46 White street, who was
arrested charged with stealing from
the firm, was arraigned in special ses-
siOns and pleaded guilty to a charge
of petit larceny. The plea was ac-
companied by written confession, in
which the girl admitted thefts during
the past two years aggregating more
than $4,000. The confession named a
man friend as the recipient of nearly
all of the stolen money.
According to the statement which is
sworn to, Miss Golding, who lives at
24O-A Hart street, Brooklyn, met a man
on a street car going over the bridge
in April, 1902. This chance acquaint-
ance rlpened into a friendship and
then into love on the girls part. She
says that several times week since
then she has given the man money
in various sums, all stolen from her
employers. On one occasion she let
him have 5000, for which she says he
gave her receipt. This was on May
A. 1904 The thefts, according to the
confession, continued until last August,
when she became conscience stricken
and stopped stealing.
The Postal Card Raids
Anthony Comstock of the Society for
the Suppression of Vice has not given
up his search for obscene postal cards
and pictures, as was shown yesterday,
when two raids netted some 270,OOO
pieces which he considered objection
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said that the raids already have had
the effect of greatly decreasing the
number of obscene cards which the
postoffice clerks found in the mails.
The raid on the Paris Art store,
East Fourteenth street, which is just
off Firth avenue and in the heart of
the shipping district, caused some eX-
element yesterday morning. Com
stock and his men went there with a
search warrant issued by Magistrate
Mayo and turned up 1888 alleged OBJ
scene pictures and cards. They arrest
ed Adolphus Zelinke, the proprietor,
and Arnold Luchs a salesman. They
were held in the Second district court
in $500 bail for trial.
The several detectives of the society
are said to be gathering evidence
against other art stores and more raids
may be expected.
IldlIdu DldChHidIlCTS
Unless more effective measures are
taken it is admitted by the police that
they are powerless to defeat the army
of 5000 Camorristi who infest New
York. So bold have these brigands be-
come because of their success in black
mailing Italian merchants and escaping
even suspicion of completely in the
crime that their demands are increas-
ing at an alarming rate.
"Only the national government can
save this situation for u.s." declared
Sergeant Petrosino. LAS the law stands
at present we are helpless to a great
extent against these desperadoes They
know the penal code from end to END.
have information that there are not
less than 10000 members of the Camor-
ia in this country, working under
twelve leaders stationed in the princi-
pal cities.
Toys for Christmas
The season for Christmas toys is ap-
preaching and the dealers in the big
shops declare that the novelties listed
for the coming holiday season surpass
anything ever before attempted in the
toy line. Some of them will come high
very high. But they are wonders of
mechanical ingenuity. There will be
toys priced at $50. The old-fa shioned
tin kitchen and woolly dog will be
thrown quite in the background by the
display of novelties on the shelves.
There is to be on the market a "mys-
terious ball." which was exhibited a
year ago. A ball is propelled by
mechanism upon spiral column. At
the top the ball opens and a clown ap-
pears and waves tiny flag. There are
birds that sing, parrots that talk and
dainty brides and grooms that go
through the entire wedding ceremony
The Third Belmont
August Belmont III, the third scion
of the famous banking family, is soon
to enter his fathers banking house as
clerk. He is %, but looks older Like
his father, he is a trifle below me-
dium height. Like father, he is an
athlete, an ardent sportsman, a lover
OIL horses, good sailor, a fair boxer, a
hard hitter and a simple liver. He dis
likes notoriety and is less known to the
public than any of the young men of
New York destined to inherit many
millions. The only time his name has
come into print has been in connection
with sailing his boats in regattas on
the sound or in playing polo, a sport
which he is as passionately devoted to
as his father always has been, and in
which he plays almost as good a game
as his father does.
Helps Girls Save Money
Once a week in each of three of the
largest department stores in New York
quiet little woman makes her way
through the press of shoppers into the
lunch room set apart for the employees.
BY the time she has settled herself
comfortably at table in one corner it
is II o'clock and the first relay of girls
are entering the room to enjoy their
luncheon hour. At sight of the little
woman in the corner all thoughts of
eatables are dropped for the moment,
and a large proportion of the girls
flock over to her table, where a scene
is enacted that would seem curious to
any one who was not aware of the
woman's mission. There Is a hasty
breaking open of the pay envelopes the
girls take out of their shirtwaists or
pockets, and one by one they file be-
fore the woman at the table, giving
her small sums of money, in return
for which she pastes stamp, repre-
senting the sum given her, in the small
book each girl carries. She remains