The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-07-11
ROUND UP A GANG.
Police officers Get Gang Of Shop
Lifters and Recover Big Pile
Of Stolen Goods
GIRL TELLS STORY OF CRIME
Mary White, Sales9irl in the Fisher
Store, Tells of Being Hired to
Steal Dry Goods by Mrs
Pauline Rochnowski

The police of the city rounded up
great gang of shop filters Saturday
night and Sunday morning, and as a
result of the raids of the two days
more than FIVE hundred dollars worth
of stolen goods have been recovered
and four women and girls are IN Jail
awaiting trial on charges of grand
larceny. The people arrested are:
Mary White, aged IA years, former
salesgir1 at the Fisher store.
Mrs. Pauline Rochnowski, residing
at the corner of Caledonia and Ounce
streets. Josie Rochnowski, her
daughter, aged II years.
Mrs. Annie Kroma1 of North Main
street.
The haul is the largest ever made
by the police of Kenosha, and the
credit for the recovery of the vast
amount of stolen goods and the pos
sible breaking up of the gang is due
to Chief O'Hare, Assistant Chief
Newhouse and Patrolman Tony Bor-
den. The Rochnowski woman seems
to have been at the head of the gang,
and the merchandise recovered from
her home alone amounted IN value TO
more than four hundred dollars. She
absolutely refused to make any state
ment In regard to the matter. A
large amount of stuff was found at
the home of the kromaI woman, and
Miss White had the least amount of
the stolen property.
The arrest of the Kroma1 woman
was made on Saturday night. just
before closing time Mrs. Kromal was
IA the Fisher store and she managed
to get away with several articles of
merchandise. The officers followed
her to her home and search of the
place resulted ia several baskets of
stuff being found. The White girl
was arrested short time later, and
on Sunday morning the officials went
to the Rochnowski house and got the
bulk of the merchandise.
The White girl, who is but fourteen
years of age, is as sharp as whip
and she made full confession of her
connection with the gang this morn
ing, admitting that she had taken
many articles. She stated that she
had been offered money to steal the
articles by Mrs. Rochnowski, but that
the woman had not paid her the
money promised.
Between her sobs the White girl told
how the thefts had been continued
for many months and an examination
of the plumber showed that every dry
goods store in Kenosha had
suffered. The Fisher company re-
covered the largest amount but
large amounts had been taken
from The Barden Store, The Fair, H.
L. Molitor, Helm Ornstein, The zahn
Store in Racine and Mandels in Chi
cago.
In the great mass of stuff recovered
we're fabrics of the very finest sort
and the people evidently took every
thing that they could carry away.
There were skirts and dresses, bolts
of costly silks and white goods, hand
some doilies, baby dresses and hum
dreds of yards of laces and embroid-
cries. The White girl seemed to have
a great idea OF values and she picked
the best things from the stocks. Mrs.
Kromal also confessed that she had
taken stuff from the Fisher store and
that some stuff had been taken by her
little daughter. Mike Kleiwa fur
nished bond in the sum of 81 600 for
the Kromal woman, depositing bank
book in which there were deposits of
more than $1,000. The police believe
that it is possible that the gang has
been working in Kenosha for many
months and that the stuff recovered
is only portion of the merchandise
that has been secured. The ner-
chants have been missing valuable
articles for many months bue the
work was done so cleverly that the
merchants have found it impossible
to catch the thieves.
ONT NFNDu Amman