The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-15
AFTER ARREST, MYSTERIES,
DAZED WOMAN ACCUSED or SHOP
LIFTING IN 6TH AVE. STORE,

said she Was Mrs. Ellls, wife Of Insurance
Man-Husband, Doctor and 2 Women
~. Friends HaSteped 20 TendeFiOin
and Gave Baf-say she's an Invalid
A woman wandering - II da7ed about
one Of the Sixth avenue department stores
yesterday afternoon caused the young
women behind the counters 10 forget sales
and watch her strange actions. At last
she startled everybody the store people
say. by stepping up 10 table and filing
her muh with trinkets. A bottle Of per-
fume and some lace, the saleswomen allege.
also went into the muH, and half a dozen
employees rushed through the store calling
for the detectives.
John LArldn and q woman Bleuth were
soon at hand and they arrived In time, they
alleEe, to see the woman help herself to
small leather pocketbook. LaTldn told
the woman she was under arrest and this
seemed 10 arouse her from the dazed state
she appeared to be In. After staring at
the store sleuth for eoveral minutes, she
became hysteroal and her screams could
be heard all over IN store.
my Godi what have donel' she vailed.
my husband viii 60 crazy II DO learns this.
The prisoner was conducted TO q waiting
room, and after a time she became more
composed. She said she was Mrs. Laura
Ellis Of ~ West Hghty-fourth street, and
that her husband, Charles Baker Ellis, was
in the insurance business at 200 Broadway.
Mrs Ellis told Detective Lardn and others
at the store that the was III and that she had
no idea Of what she had done The trinkets
and other things taken were returned, and
Mrs. Ellis offered. the detectives allege,
TO pay for them II the management Of the
store wished her TO do 80. She bad nearly
$50 In her pocketbook.
Mrs. Ellis was taken TO the Tenderloin
station and held on the charge Of petty
larceny. She said she was ss years old,
but looked older. She wore brown tailor !
made dress. a set Of mink flrs and con-
jewelry.
Despite her protests against notifying |
her husband Of her plight, Sergt Robinson |
telephoned TO the prisoners home, and the
husband was soon at the station.
HI was accompanied BY Or. Theodore b.
Barringer Of 81 West Eighty-fourth street,
time According TO Mr. Ellis and DR..
Barringer, the woman underwent an
operation two years ago, and was for a
ong time in different hospitals Mr.. Ellis
also says that his wife used morphine to
-eieve pain. He and Or. Barringer got
, bondsman for the prisoner and she was
to her home in a carriage by
wo women friends who followed Mr.. Ellis
md DR.. Baninger. 10 the station house
When she was led from the cell 10 which
he was locked up and confronted by her
riends in the station house, Mrs. Ellis
broke down and wept Historically.
Detective Larkin, when he took Mrs.
Ellis to the station, said that neither he
Tor any others in the store had ever seen the
' oman before,
I don't think this woman knew what
he was doing, said Larkin, but there was
lothing for me 10 do but arrest her"
MEs. Ellis will be arraigned in the Jetfer-
on market police court this morning.
DR.. Barringer said last night TO a sun
Mrs. Ellis has been patient Of mine for
hree or four years. She has a chronic
disease affecting the arteries in her hand
nd has had five operations. She suffers
errible pain at times and Is obliged to
AXE very powerful drugs. Without any
question she was entirely irresponsible and
ny one could have seen that. In fact her
ondition Is one TO excite pity. She il a
Ovely mother and has comfortable home
nd all the money she needs. She is an
xtrepely sick woman, although able to
DR.. Barringer said that he intended TO
ppear in court in behalf Of Mrs. Ellis.
THREE MEN ARRESTED.
While Store Detective Larkin was hold !
ng on 10 Mrs. Ellis shop girl shrieked
or help from another part Of the store.
'wo men, she said, bad taken advantage |
I the detectives absence to lift a gold fob,
.arkin turned Mrs. Ellis over TO some Of
be girls, and made double capture. The
wo prisoners gave their names as Joseph
,osenblum and Joseph Green. ROsen-
lum had % calibre hammerless revolver
D his stocking.
That wasn't all As he was walking
ptown after the triple arrest Detective
ergeant Frank Peabody Of the Tenderloin
tatfon heard cries for help from another
ptown department store. He found Rose
ieenagh, the store detective, pointing at a
ian who was scTTying out Of the store.
eabody followed and caught him. His
anne went down ON the books az Thomas ,
aylor, and Re Is charged with stealing !
1909 worth Of trinkets