The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-23
PICKS Her As THIEF
SAYS WOMAN IN CUSTODY
TOOK PURSE YEAR AGO.
Says Louisa Kellogg Is Same Sociable
old Lady Who Warned Her
of Pickpockets.

Though robbed of a pocketbook con-
tanning a small sum of money in a
store in Fourteenth street, New York
city, nearly a year ago. Miss Eta Fos-
ter, of 81 Grove venue, Hammils sta
ton L. L., did not forget the incident
which preceded a discovery of the loss
of her pocketbook. Nor did she forget
the appearance of the kindly old wom-
an who spoke to her in the store and
warned her against being careless and
losing her pocketbook to a satchel
opener.
This incident brought Miss Foster
from Long Island to this city, where
she promptly identified Mrs. Louisa
kellogg, the aged woman arrested in
this city last Saturday afternoon by
Detective ~Sergeants Long and Ryan on
a charge of being a thief, as the person
who stood beside her in the store in
New York n warned her about her
pocketbook.
Miss Foster. a bright young woman,
is employed as a stenographer in the
Office of Bayne g. Davidson, coffee i'm
p%orters, of 81 Front street, New York.
Though she said that she has repeat
edly followed the arrest of every pick
pocket that she read about in the pa
pers she did not feel that she was on
the track of the woman who had robbed
her until she heard of the arrest of
Mrs. Kellogg by the Newark police.
Early last November Miss Foster,
while shopping in Woolworth's five and
ten cent-store in Fourteenth street. was
~accosted by a ind-looking, gray-haired
old woman who opened a conversation
about women losing their poeketbooks
in crowded stores. 81 lost my pocket
book here myself two weeks ago. the
old woman began. "and l war; you to
be especially careful"
Miss Foster said today that the
woman appeared all broken up over
losing her pocketbook. She said that
the woman had her right hand on hel
own satchel, while her left hand was
against the satchel which she carried.
Miss Foster said that after sympa-
thizing with the woman she went away
while she started to purchase a few
small articles. When she went to pay
the saleswoman for the goods she
reacheds into her satchel and found
that the small purse which she had In
the satchel was gone. So was the So
licitous old lady.
Miss Foster said that she read OF
many cases of women losing pocket
books, but could find no incident SINH
lar to the one in which she figured,
| She was sure at the time that the
kindly hammered old woman was moth
ing more or less than a clever satchel
opener who had stolen her purse. In
tuition made her communicate with
the Newark police when she read of
Mrs. Kelloggss arrest in this city, and
after comforting with Chief of Police
Corbitt decided to come to Newark to
see if the woman under arrest here
was the one who had, h thought,
robbed her. This morning she called
at the First Precinct Station, where
Mrs. Kellogg was waiting in a side
room for her trial. Miss Foster asked
Detective Sergeant Long if she could
see the woman under arrest. and Ions
accorded her the privilege. That's the
same woman who robbed me-" sale
Miss Foster. "She has not changed one
bit since she spoke to me in the Four
teenth street store
Mrs. Kellogg was represented by
Lawyer John Cahill. She was to have
been tried today, but she could not get
the necessary witnesses, so the trial
was postponed until tomorrow after
noon. S
Miss Foster, however, was allowed to
go on the stand and tell her story.