Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29

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Jersey Jennie" saw no reason to Quit
the store because of "Sealskin SaIly's'
presence. They were working different
departments. She very soon learned her
mistake.
She had managed to boost several fine
pieces of imported underwear and repair
ed to the ladies' room to remove the tags
There she was watched by the store de-
tective, who recognized her as shopifter
and concluded that it must have been she
who had lifted a fine fur piece which had
just been missed from the fur department.
When the alarm had been given all the
avenues of escape had been guarded and
the chief detective had hurr. ed to the
ladies' room. He followed Jennie" out
OF the store and stopped her.
OF course, Jersey Jennie protested
her innocence, rishtfully claiming that she
hadn't been near the fur counters that
day. A search was insisted upon and
brought to Light the stolen underwear.
investigation showed that il had been
stolen, and Jennie was placed under
arrest.
The papers some time ago had an ar
ticle about a woman who was suing "A
beauty specialist" for soaring he nose.
She got a verdict of So. 800 1t never
appeared in court, of course, that the
woman's real damage was not SO much
her loss Of beauty the loss of lucra-
tive vocation. The woman was no
torious shoplifter The scar which the
beauty specia list left on her face ruined
her usefulness. She was afraid to work
the stores afterWard for fear of being
identified by salesladies. She had been
making anywhere from a hundred to two
hundred dollars week.
At the lost property department of one
of the railway companies there is prob
ably "A valuable sable muff 1t was left
i'm the train by Lizzie Atwell. a well
known shop.fter. 1t was her working
muff'' 1t cost her $780, being made Of
the finest sable. 1t contained many Sc
cret pockets and was capacious enough
to hold more than an honest woman
would have occasion to carry. When IL
was left on the train it contained dia
mond bracelet which the woman had
boosted" from a 9Th avenue store. Miss
Atwell hasn't yet made any claim for
either muff or contents.
But the "shifters'' make the stores 4
lot Of trouble, too There was one shifter
that walked out of a big mems clothing
store not long ago wearing a brand-new
suit and an oyercoat, and they haven't
caught him yet.
The fellow got away with the OUTFIT.
$500 they cost the store, for the coat was
fur lined-this way: He went i'm and
asked to see the best they had They
kept showing him one suit after another.
but none was good enough for him. He
said he was bachelor and was getting
married and nothing was too good for
him. Finally there was a suit he thought
might do. He looked it over critically
and said that if they had an overcoat to-
match the suit he would take It. They
brought him the overcoat, and the last
one he tried on he said might do IL &c
matched his suit. He wasn't sure and
asked for better light. The salesman
took him to another mirror and he com
planned that was lamplight. He wanted
daylight. They went near the door.
Somebody spoke to the salesman and he
turned 10 answer him. When he turned
back the man was gone. His old clothes
We're left behind.
Woman shifters often exchange hats
that way. One woman / happened to SEQ
one day left hat worth a dollar and
ninety cents on the chair and slipped OF
through the crowd in a forty-dollar hat, Il
bird of paradise.
/ have already asked the question
whether shoplifting pays, and ] have
NO" l have told of some OF
he successful shoplfters who have been
even these. every one OF
hese, has found her end. will find her
insh, either in jail or in the poorhouse.
The queens" of the shoplifters are hard
n to catch. but their time always comes:
he little shoplifters are being swept up
n the stores day after day like the waste
PAPER on the floor. And yet they seem
never To learn. The women who steal
rom the stores are like the animals in
he cattle trsin-none of them seems
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