The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-12-17
CROOKS GET BUSY
AND FLEECE MANY
Miss Mary Lee, Daughter of Ia
nous Confederate General,
Among Victims Yesterday.

Pickpockets. snatch thieves and shop
Yfters yesterday began a series OF
.hefts. which. it is expected, Will
swamp the police with complaints an
Ill after the holidays. prominently
among the victims yesterday was MISS
Mary GUSTS Lee. daughter of Generai
Robert Z. Lee. who is spending the
winter at the JeffeI son Hotel y
oocketbook containing more than S-o'
.wo IS notes. one $40 note and some
,hange. was stolen from the pocket OF
ler Jacket while she was making pus-
.hases in l. W. Woolworth Com
oany's and 1o-Cent store 4l5-4lo
East Broad street.
4 negro snatch thief grabbed a Sill
-er hand bag. valued at SIS, and CON
aiming q small sum of cash. from Mrs.
Hampton Fleming. Of 1922 Grove Ave-
1ue. as she was ascending the steps OF
Ter home last night shortly after .
o'clock.
Mary Thompson. OF Hanover County
-eported to the police that her hama
Rag. containing s. and a note for SO
1as snatched from hex while in the
and I0-Cent store.
Alleged >hoplifters.
Mary Stovall, colored, and her eight
year-oid son. William StovaH, were
arrested b. officers Tomlinson ana
srvant for shoplifting. They are al
eyed to have taken quantity OF no
ions from J. g. McCrorey q Company 5
and 10-Cent store. 4f7-421 las;
BROAD Street The woman IS said To
nave stolen the articles and turned
hem over to the boy. who hid them in
large overcoat.
I have no loubt was very careless
lxe-f
acket pocket" Miss Lee said last
light. y -eally have not the 81 ghtes'
.iea who stole il. but ! imagined II
Vas taken by some Of the negro mer
saw in tfse store. which was packed
and TANNED. But the officers to whom
reported my loss did not seem t
.hink il was taken by the negroes
They thought II was probably stoler
~ q woman.
Would Give s. Reward
I did not discover my loss Mis-
r.cc continued until I made "a pur
-hase in another store. ! doubt Il
: ever recovered, but I would give s
-eward 70 have Il returned
About two hours after Mrs. Fleniu
had been robbed. officers Walshe an
Dunn. detailed for plain-clothes dut'
picked I'D a negro who answered tn
description pt the r1rkN VINO SIdiC-
ID her handbag. NJ the Second Polio
station he gave MS name as Edw Ar
scott. twenty-fouT years Old tie DE-
MED the theft Before making
barge against I'm Re was taken I
he home Of Mrs. Fleming. and Will
she was not positive. Size said ~ az
oeared 70 BE- the man who bad grsi
oed her bag. lie was locked up ~
-harged with being a suspicious chs
a-te- suspected o. having committ'
larceny
Thought Thief Was Husband
Mrs Flem.us explained - thc p
lice that she heard he negro ruurif
behind her and -unp ur the steps p
g.vir- D. 90 be lc- husband. -le @
na, look around until sho feit O.
hsndbas wreulhe6 from her grasi
when sns did sae merely got . glimp
= the reeiur form ~ rne fhief -
aid not sea his fere. Scott was four
~, the officers at f,onbardy and era
streets.
Tho police regard tiesc fnefts
tre sq~erurrers o. 9th - which ~
Do committees durirz fre holiday sao
ainr season s warning has been SOD
,r- - the puhlic hv Chief % Poll
ue~-e~ Tor persons fo 80 ,arefuf
fre.r valuables while n crowds and
larry as ifffIc money ss possible vi
trc-n. orhe~Vfs- fh-r VII MAKE mar
- sheuns.ivcs for flr rrookr vNo d
sluays busy - THIS season