Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-15
WOMEN MAKE A STIFF FIGHT
Caught Lifting Goods and Then Start
a Rough House in Spite Of Heat.
FIGHT ALL THE WAY TO JAN.
Then Tell the Officers q Few Things
In = Language Too strong for
the arden Turnkeys
a Listen To.

Pugtlistic celebrities now are these two
women.
The hot weather did not reduce their
fighting propensities and Il took the auto
patrol. the regular police wagon. four off
GERS, a detective and several innocent by
ISLANDERS TO quell the rioting OF Mrs. Carrie
Tracy and Jessie Hart, who were caught
in the act Of shop-lifting at the drug store
Of Sherman & Mcconnell. Sixteenth and
Dodge, Saturday afternoon.
This was accomplished only after the
belligerent feminine had laid out one clerk,
Miss Nellie Kelly. who works at the drug
store; kicked Detective Walker in the alb
domen with a foot that wore larger than
a No. 6; tore the suspenders from a non.
participant in the affair and collected a
crowd OF several hundred people to wit.
ness the uncivilities.
Even after they had been deposited in
the cage behind the sergeant's desk at the
police station the impolite pair threatened
to knock out a few of the officers. They
called the turnkey at the jail all the bad
names devised since Eve and Adam met in
the garden where the fruit was an evil
temptation. Their pugnacious proclivities
were somewhat dampened when they
reached the jail and they did not attempt
to use their fists. Their language, though.
VIII We ItAhtIlutENu pg the hNAliOn OLIlCeFS
until the last day they are on the force.
The interesting little disturbance started
shortly before 3 p. m, when Mrs. Tracy
and her pal, Jessie Hart, started out to do
some of Omaha's friendly merchants out OF
a few dollars worth OF goods. The girls
evidently were out for a big afternoon. for
with them was a man who made a clean
getaway when the feminine portion Of the
trio attracted undue attention.
Starts In Drug store.
As the first place for action the women
selected the Sherman & Mcconnell drug
store and made a gallant entrance there
just as the town clock struck a quarter to
three. Mrs. Tracy carried In her left hand
a brown hand satchel. She was to carry
the goods. Miss Hart attracted Mr.. Sher-
mans attention with pretense OF a pur-
chase.
Just then the sly Tracy girl began filling
her satchel with many things that cost the
drug firm money and which were on the
counters for the purpose Of being sold.
She had not collected more than five or six
bottles Of perfume and several trinkets
until the keen eyes of Miss Kelly espied
her. The alarm was given and the women
started to get away,
Miss Kelly planted herself in front of the
Tracy woman, who raised up her strong
right arm and deftly planted a neat blow
on the clerks pretty mouth. BY that time
Mr.. Sherman and Mrs. C. Davidson, an
other clerk. we're conscious OF the interest
ing doings and rolled up their sleeves to
get into the fray.
The women shoplifters fled from the
store, with Mr.. Sherman and Mrs. David
son in hot pursuit. Sherman was without
a hat, and as he sped along Sixteenth
street following the thieves toward the
Boston store, whence they were making
a hotfoot he looked for all the world like
a Marathon racer in the best of condition.
Despite all Mr.. Sherman and his clerk
could do, the women made the Boston store
in safety, but with a hundred people then
Joined in their pursuit.
Luckily for Mr.. Sherman. but rather I'M
fortunate for the women, Detective Walker
appeared on the scene and ran into the
store after the women. Both Of them he
caught, but they made his life one miser.
able time for a few minutes until outsiders
gave him assistance. The Tracy woman
kicked him in the abdomen and the Hart
girl pulled his hair and tried to get at his
eyes.
Two Patrol wagons
In the meantime, while the chase was
going on, the police station had been told
that a small riot was in progress at Six
teenth and Douglas streets, and both the
auto and wagon patrols were hustled to
the scene. These arrived just in time %
relieve Detective Walker OF his burden and
give him a chance to breath.
The two women were first taken back to
the drug store to be identified, There they
grew boisterous again and Mrs. Tracy
grabbed the suspenders of a ~bystander and
ranked them from his pants.
At the station they did not like the way
they were handled and they caused more
commotion than has been occasioned there
for several months.
The male pal of the women made good
his escape and the police have no idea as
to who he Is. The women, they say, are
tough characters. and both have been in
Jail before. The Tracy woman has lived in
Omaha all her life and frequently gets into
bad straits. The pair live at Twentieth
and Center streets,
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