Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-12
Has Been Enjoying Her.
self Around Portland.
Portland People Are Now Quietly
Figuring Up Losses.

Portland, Me. Aug: lift her OWL
statement is true, fair Raffies has
stolen over $1,000 in the State of Maine
and part of the amount was taken from
Portland people. That the woman die
steal $3.50 in cash and a dress suit
case containing about $50 worth ol
| jewels and clothing in Portland is as
sured, for the woman was seen with
the dress suit case. and in letter re-
ceived by George F. Davis, proprietor
| of the confectionery store at the end Of
| Portland pier, the fair Raffies admits
that she stole the $12.50 from his store
and that she stole $1,000 during her visit
to Maine. Mr.. Davis received the let
tier Wednesday morning and has turned
| the matter over to the local police
The letter:
Nj. Davis
Dear Sir: I saw the piece in the pa
per about the woman thief. Well. this
letter wont be mailed to you until peo-
pie are sure that | am in the West, but
if the police We're so smart as to have
my description, they showed their good
day after the piece was in the paper I
was talking with three different police
asking them questions about the cars.
HIS. Ha.
Maine has been good to me this sum-
mer. lr all of her places she has tugn-
ed in to me over $1,000, that will keep
me nicely all winter.
| was not always like this. Once |
was good, but made a misstep. No
one wanted me, as no one was a friend
of fallen woman, so what was l to
do? | had to live-I had to eat and
have a place to sleep, and it was the
only thing for me, of course.
| know some day it will all end, and
I shall be pulled, and sometimes l wish
it was over. as | am so tired of living.
If someone would only trust me, |
would give it all up and pay all | owe,
as keep track of all | get; but no one
cares. | can make friends easy, but
when | mention work, my goodness.
they all ask awful quick for references,
so what am | to do?
You won't miss that $3.50 in a
years time and | need all l can get. l
shall stop stealing now while my mon
ey holds out, and be good.
Well, goOd-b bye and thanks.
THE WOMAN THIEF.
Before Mr.. Davis received the letter
he was firmly convinced that woman
attired in a light automobile coat had
taken the money, but he was greatly
surprised when he read the letter,
which was mailed from Boston and
which was written on the stationery of
the Adams House.
Readers of the Express Advertiser will
remember the story referred to in the
storyletter, for in that story it was stat
ed that woman had stolen $3.50 from
Mr.. Davis store on Tuesday morning,
Aug . Mr.. Davis said this morning that
he went to his store and had just opened
the place for the day
Every night I take the money from
the cash drawer and when l returned
that morning | had waited on a man and
had placed the bag containing the $l2 in
bills on the shelf near the cash register.
The woman, wearing a black sailor hat
draped with a white veil and a light au-
tomobile coat. was seated on one of the
long settees in the waiting room" Mr..
Davis thought that she was waiting for
TIE 1tIlND odL lOT TtdhS lSldllu anu
thought that she was a summer visitor
as she carried new dress suit case
The owner of the store went out to do
some sweeping on the wharf Just outside
of his store. leaving the woman inside.
When he returned the woman had dis
appeared and later it was discovered that
the $l25O had been taken.
A few minutes after Mr.. Davis had
left the store to do his sweeping the
woman came out toward the door at
the upper end of the store and as she
pass ID out with the dress suit case in
her hand. she happened to see the
young lady in the ticket office of the
Ferry Co
1T is dreadfully warm in there"
said the woman and she started up the
wharf as fast as she could. That vas
the last seen of her on Portland pier.
When Mr. Davis discovered that his
money had been stolen he notified the
police. Later it was learned that a
new dress suit case owned by a Gin
cinnati summer visitor at one of the
islands had been stolen from the wait
ing room of the CascO Bay & HarpS-
well Lines. The description of the stol-
Ell bag and the one carried by the wo-
man vino suddenly left the Davis store
tailed exactly 1t is assumed that the
woman visited the waiting room of the
Casco Bay e. Harpswell Lines first,
and after stealing the dress suit case
which contained jewelry ard clothing
valued at about $50. went to the wait
ing room of the Peaks Island Ferry
Co. and secured the money from the
store-Portland Express.