New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
POLICE SOLVE SERVANT
AND OTHER PROBLEMS
Three Little Girls from Sullivan
County Confess They Found
Pi|fering Profitable.
WAS EASIER THAN WORKING
Harriet, Margaret and Annie
Moser Made Brief Sojourns
in Harlem Kitchens, Nor
Left Empty Handed.

Leu EMPTY hduucu.
one domestic problem was solved last
night when three sisters-servants by
svocation and thieves by vocation-con-
fessed that from their more recent
olaces of employment they stole Jew
Nrv and clothing worth more than
Zoo In their apartment, No. 315
West 10th street, other stuff worth
about $500 was found. The young
persons are Harriet Moser. sixteen; her
sister Margaret, eighteen, and another
sister. Annie. twenty-six. All come
under the head Of comely.
Though there are only four complain
ants TO be divided up among the three
sisters. the police hope to prove that
the girls are responsible for numerous
other robberies in Harlem and The
Bronx. Mrs Thomas H. Mackile, Of
No. $3.50 Broadway, is the complainant
against Harriet. who. she says, wound
I'D on September 90 three-day period
Of employment by faring forth with
$500 worth of her Jewelry and cloth
ing.
Margaret, who is a bit more tempe-a-
mental than Harriet, was satisfied with
two days work for Mrs. William Pole
liter, Of No. Col West 15Oth street.
So last Sunday she ventured into the
afternoon air with $3.50 worth of Mrs.
Politzer's things.
Annie is the eldest, so there are two
complainants in her case-Florence and
Mabel Briner, sisters, of No. 452 West
145th street. Annie worked for them
about four days. On October 8 she
took precisely S1S2 worth Of things
that good little girl wouldn't have
touched.
Those Of Mr.. Waldo's subordinates
who are connected with the West 1920
street police station have been much
annoyed for weeks by stories that resi-
dents of their bailiwick were having
difficulty not only in keeping servants
but in keeping track Of them after
they and other things had made tracks
across their thresholds. 1t didn't occur
10 the policemen that the good looking
girls who wore white sweaters and
smiled as they passed the station house
at the handsome minions Of the law
had anything to do with the thefts. AT
that time the girls lived a block from
the police station
Mrs. Mackile opened the question on
Saturday. Following Harriet's de-
parture. Mrs. Mackile noticed that her
possessions were not so numerous as
they had been. but she wasn't con-
vnced that she was the victim of a
theft until Saturday, when she notified
the police. Detectives Donohue, ONeill
and Calvin went TO see her, but. in her
talk, she insisted that Harriet could
not possibly be guilty. The sleuths
took a different view. and they became
so ective that the depredations of the
other girls were brought to light.
Yesterday afternoon the detectives
irailed Harriet and Margaret to Am
sterdam avenue and 146th street. A
little girl, holding a babys locket and
chain. ran up TO Harriet and said she
had dropped 1t. Just then Donohue
called the girls by name. They were
clustered a bit, but. on thinking for a
few minutes, decided they knew Don
Ohue. He made it plain that he knew
them, and ne walked them back 70 their
apartment, his colleagues joining him
en- route.
Annie arrived soon after her sisters
reached the house. She was imme-
diately placed under arrest, and the
three sisters were taken 10 the west
l52d street station. where they were
locked up on a charge of grand larceny.
Incarceration did not precede con-
fession by many minutes. Annie. the
eldest. admitted that the charge
against her was well founded. and her
sisters joined in the chorus. Then
Annie supplemented her confession
With:
We all come from Roscoe. Sullivan
County, n. Y. / came down here ten
years ago and got work az a domestic.
worked honestly for five years. but
The money came too hard, SO turned
to easier methods. ! didn't work over
two or three days in place before !
made a getaway with stuff.
Three years ago / sent for Mar
garet. She got the same kind OF work.
After while got her to steal. Then.
last Easter, we told Harriet to come