The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-13
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5InG OF CROOKS.
SAY POLICE
~ Of Convicted Women shoplifters
md Men Posing as bubbles Are
\ Alleged Advance Guard Of
Organized Band.
Quartet Also Involved in Marital
Complioations That Have Their Set
tings On Two Continents.

Inc strange case OF Rosie befmaI
and Leah Hochberg. shoplifters. con
vcted in Judge Phelan's court. Tues
day. presents to the police and fed
eral authorities manifold ramifica
ions and endless complications.
These two women. who now take
heir conviction with stolid lndiffer
tnce, are the stellar performers In q
Rrama, the settings of which We're
staged upon two continents. A tragic
1enouement, which is being viewed
Nth intense interest by detectives
Ind federal officials all over the land.
3 now being enacted In Detroit.
The authorities say that the con-
Fiction OF Rosie Berman and Leah
Hochberg is the first step in the
breaking up OF clever band OF
Crooks, male and female, whose opera
lions are countrywide. II the two men,
Kho pose as the husbands OF these
komen, are deported-and the federal
authorities sincerely hope they can ar
range the deportation-this with be
the second step.
sF Into this crime drama, there en-
ters all the elements Of human
passion--love. hate. revenge-even
tomedy.
From Philadelphia has come Mrs.
Kate Willis, legal wife of the man
Who now calls himself Bonnie Ber-
man, husband of Rosie Berman. She
gives the lie direct to her husband and
"A the county Jail she spit In Rosie
Berman's face In token OF her anger
md her contempt.
Il Rosie denies not Kate Willis prior
klaim to the affections Of ike" Will
Us. alias Bonnie Berman.
4 To add to the completely OF the
Mutation, while Bonnie Berman boasts
81 surplus wife. Leah Hochburg.
Rosie Berman's companion In crime. 10
btruggiing to disprove the claim that
the Is encountered with one too many
Aubbies.
Leah says she married Sam Lewis
"a Russia. Lewis, with Willis, alias
herman, Is now in the county jail.
But over In London, Eng, Is Moscha
H0chburg Impassioned letters have
tome to Leah from across the At
hntic.
Moscha, in total ignorance of the
Iact that she has another husband
md blind to the life she has been
|eading, pleads in eloquent language
hat she return. to him.
4 As an evidence of the vast import
knce with which the federal authori-
Hes regard the entire matter, the q.
!. immigration bureau Is now taking
1feps TO bring TO America, Moscha
Hochburg, that he may confound
Leah by his very presence.
Rosie and Leah. with ike" Willis
and Sam Lewis, all four OF whom now
occupy compartments In the county
jail, arrived In Detroit, Nov. IL last.
The police say they were the advance
Xuard OF an organized band Of shop
1lfters and pickpockets-
They came on here to feel out the
holiday situation in Detroit II the
1eld looked good, they we're to report
accordingly and Detroit would have
been the scene Of a grand influx.
Detectives Sullivan and Steinhebel.
who have secured considerable infor-
NATION on the case, say that when
2fiss Nellie Copnors, house detective
Tor Crowley, Miner & Co. nabbed the
two women In the act Of purloining
silk waists, she saved the police a
whole lot OF trouble. Miss Conner
1jorformed this service Nov. 10. two
days after the quartet landed here.
In the mbarital adventures Of the
quartet, the old world and the new
are involved and many men and wom-
en play signal roles.
The Immigration authorities say
that Sam Lewis. first husband OF
Leah. left her. In England she met
Moscha Hochburg-Moscha the UNI
Sophisticated, who believes in her
still, and believing. worships blindly
from afar. 'Tis said that after brief