The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-23
WOMEN THIEVES
 MUST DO TIME
TWO SISTERS AND THEIR NIECE SENTENCED ON FOUR COUNTS
 FOR SHOPLIFTTNG
Attorney Appeals In Vain

AicptOIIldIld, BuG NeVer O1 TWO aC Once, Not to Mention Three Women CooIy Submit to Being
 Measured and Mugged, Ia Bertil- lion.
 Deputy Judge Wilder undoubtedly intends to teach shoplifters lesson. In the city court this morning he sent Mary Carroll to jail for 75 days and fined her $1 and costs. Her sister, Mrs Fanny Mclean, alias Atkins, he sent to jail for 65 days and fined her $5 and costs. Their niece. Mrs. Emma Tooker, he fined $1 and costs and sent her to jail for 55 days. The Mclean woman was unrepresented by counsel. Attor- ney George F. Mara, who appeared for Mrs. Carroll and Mrs Tooker, asked that his clients be placed in the charge Of the probation officer, because it was the first time they had been arrested. The court refused to suspend the sent ence and probate the prisoners, believ- ing that female prisoners arrested for shoplifting had been escaping too light ly in the past
 Attsfney Mara said he understood that it had been the custom to probate women arrested for a first offence. He had in mind that Mrs. Nelson a shop lifted, was probated after being arrest ed for her second offence: that the wife Of a North End business man who recently was arrested under an assumed name for shoplifting, was al- lowed TO go by forfeiting a small bond, while Miss Morrison, who embezzled in the neighborhood of $700 from loan company was placed under probation officer by a higher court The attorney said that it was also pos sible that the minds of his clients were unbalanced. when they did the thiev- ing. The judge said that he had known of cases of kleptomania, but he never heard of their being two cases at once.
 The Iolice had prepared four counts against the Carroll woman: four against the Tooker woman and three against the Mclean woman. The lat ter did not take an appeal as she did mot know whom she could get to put up a bond for her. Mrs. Tooker and Mrs. Carroll took an appeal the former un- der bonds of $400 and the latter under bonds of $450 Attorney Mara said that his clients had relatives in Water bury who would furnish a real estate bond some time to-day.
 All the women were measured ac- cording to thes Bertillfon system and taken to a photographer's to be "mug- ged" for the Rogue's gallery. All pleaded guilty. With the excep- ton. of the lie Mrs. Carroll told when she said she was Mary Moore of Straw berry Hill. she told a fairly, truthful story.
 Mrs. Tooker, who has worked every day, in a. local corset factory, for sew era1 years. told a straightford story. but she did not agree with Mrs. Car roll in accounting for the 30 pair of gloves found in a trunk beneath Mrs Carrol1s bed. She had stolen two pairs of the gloves, but said she, did not know where so many pairs came from.
 All the women resided at 172 Bur roughs street, but there was an ap- parent coldness between them, and the Mclean woman. who has been arrested once before for drunkenness. did not get much recognition from the other two. All seemed to take their arrest no display of tears. or nervous break downs. as is usually the case with women prisoners. They submitted to the measuring for future identification with the same complacency that the average woman shows when she is trying on a hat at a milliners. The only time they showed their teeth was when Officer Joseph Coughlin asked them to show them. Mrs. Mclean smiled and said hers were false.
 The court imposed the fines as fol- lows: Fanny Mclean, first count, $5 and costs and 15 days in jail; second count. 20 days in jail; third count, 30 days in jail. Emma Tooker. $1 and 10 days: third, 15 days: fouth. 25 days. Mary Carroll, first count, $1 and costs and 10 days in Jail; second count, Is days in jail; third count, 20 days in jail and fourth count, 30 days.
 The several counts represented thefts from Howland'S, Kline Bros. Kleban & Gelman's, and Holbrook 6 McNamara's stores.
 All three women were committed to jail in lieu of their failure to furnish bonds at the close If court to-day. Dorv-vr ~D~ u~o