The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-11
had TO FIGHT A SHOPLIFTEU.
WOMEN VINO DIDN'T KNOW CRY
ING SHAME on STORE SLEUTH.
she Used = Hat hin and It Left MARKS
Past Middle Age. Befurred' Wen
GOWned-Had sass and Also Another
WOmaR's BaE-says she's Mrs FISK"

GOWned-Had sass and Also Another
WOmaR's BaE-says shes Mrs. FISK"
The suspicious Of Detective John F.
LArkin. employed In a Sixth avenue de-
partmsDt sore. were aroused yesterday
afternoon by handsomely gowned woman
past middle age, who wandered about
the first floor Of the store from counter to
counter without making any purchases.
Larkin trailed the woman, and when she
went up TO the second floor he followed.
Finally. Larkin says. the woman. think
ing she was not being watched, stuffed
a silk waist from a display counter under
her three-quarter length brown coat.
Immediately afterward she hurried into
an ante room and wrapped the waist up
In a paper she carried
The woman made her way to the first
floor with Larkin close behind. Standing
at the underwear counter, waiting for some
goods she had purchased, was Mrs. c. @.
Joist Of 500 West 15Oth street. Mrs. Joist
had put her handbag on the counter. While
her attention was engaged the strange
woman hastily snatched up the bag and
hurried for the door.
Larkin reached it first. When he grabbed
the woman 10y the ann and told her she
was under arrest a lively scene followed.
The woman screamed, drew an extra hat
min and sailed into the store detective.
II was all larkn could do TO protect him
self. and despite his efforts he received
several scrat ches ON the face and forehead.
The shoppers not knowing that he was
a detective or what the woman with the
hat pin had done pnCircled him and blocked
his way when We attempted to drag the
screaming shopfter &C. the rear Of the
store.
oh. why don't policeman come and
stop that rIfian abusing this woman?'
shrieked one sympathetic shopper
When I.arkin got half way down the store
he found himself fanked on both sides
by IN excited mob Of women. some OF whom
had dropped packages and haudkerchtets
in the hubbub. The detective tried TO
announce his identity, but the din was so
great that few could hear him, aud those
who did hear didn't believe what he said.
He did get to the elevator at last and,
pushing his fighting prisoner into the car
ordered the attendant to make Tor the base
ment The excited mob Of shoppers tried
to follow. and it took the combined strength
Of the detective and the elevator man 70
force the door shut When the car at last
reached the basement floor the detective
hustled his prisoner through TO the stable
in the rear. From there he teephoned
to the Tenderloin police station and asked
that the patrol wagon I've sent TO the stable
The woman was taken TO the station, but
there all efforts TO get her name and address
we're unsuccessful. She was extensively
dressed in a black silk skirt a white silk
waist. and her three quarter length coat
was Of the best material. An expensive
mink colarette was fastened about her
shoulders On her fingers were three rings
two Of them set with large diamonds and
the other with a ruby. Besides Mrs. Joist's
handbag. she carried a small chatelaine
bag. evidently her own. II contained
1855. but no cards or papers that would
lead 10 her Identification.
Mrs Joist's handbag contained 81 50
In money in addition to cards and trinkets.
The bag and its contents. together with the
silk waist were held as evidence.
After spending two hours in a cell, the
prisoner finally sent note TO the sergeant
saving that she was Mrs. Emma Fisk As
years old Of 20 Madison avenue. No %
Madison avenue, II there were such num-
Der, would be In the centre Of Madison
Square park Detective Larkin thinks
he has arrested the woman before.
Il am not positive, he said last night,
but this woman resent les one picked up
for shoplifting two years ago In the police
court next day her family made a strong
plea that her mind was unbalanced. They
promised to send her 70 a sanitarium, and
on the strength Of their statement the
Magistrate discharged her.
Larkin didn't remember the name Of
his prisoner Of two years ago. The woman
took her arrest philosophically and despite
the matron's solicitations refused to send
any word to friends or relatives.
Though she sent out no message a man
who said he was Samuel Mintz Of lO7 West
Tenth street drove 70 the station in a cab
about 10 o'clock last night and offered
bail for the woman. He called her Mrs
Fisk and seemed 70 know all about the
charge against her. The woman was
released under 81 900 bail the man giving
his house at lo7 West Tenth street as
security.
He refused TO talk with reporters and
would tell the police nothing about the
woman or himself The directory says
that Samuel Mintz Of lo7 West Tenth street