New-York tribune., 1916-11-28
Police Identify marion
Clark" as Mrs. Arnheim,
Arrested Year Ago
CHASED 5 MONTHS
BY DETECTIVE SQUAD
Lightning Changes and
Agility Said to Have
Baked Her PurSuerS

The innocent little movie actress
Marion Clark, who was pitied when she
was accused of amassing property
worth $4,000 by the gentle art OF
shoplifting, yesterday lost some OF the
appeal she had had for the more sym
pathetic of the city's detectives. When
they found that she was Marion Arm
helm, arrested for shoplifting year
ago, they decided, as one OF them put
it, that they held "the cleverest little
booster New York has known in twen-
ty-fve years.
Meanwhile Marion Clsrk-Scanlon-
Arnheim slept peacefully in Jefferson
Market oprison, while a young man, as
yet unidentified, made frenzied but un-
successful efforts to get bail for her.
He is one Of the elements of mystry IN
the case, though the girls landlady says
that he is "just a young man who came
from Newark to read poetry with Miss
Clark"
Outwitted Detectives
Some of the detectives enjoyed the
first sound sleep they had had IN the
five months during which Marion
Clark seems to have been acquiring the
four-ton drayful Of loot that was taken
on Sunday from her tinery stuffed
rooms at 63 West Sixty-ninth Street.
While she was collecting her thousands
Of dollars worth of furs, gowns, mats,
etc, they followed her through revolv-
ing doors, and she lodged out again,
with a fat woman behind her as shield,
while the detectives searched IN vain
for her through the stores.
They chased her to the very thresn-
hold of the women's retiring rooms In
the various stores and swore that she
never came out again. She never did
in the clothes in which they saw her
enter. II was always metamorphosed
Marion Clark that sauntered forth, in
another suit, another hat and other
boots, her old ones safe in her mutt or
her handbag.
Last night she was where they could
be sure of her. Her finger prints had
shown, they said, that she was the
Marion Arnheim, wife of Edward Arm
helm, of the Hotel Prince George. She
was arrested in December, 1915, IN the
lobby of the Hotel McAlpin after
shoplifting expedition, and later ilned
s25.
The Clark girl never left store
where she had reason to suspect sne
had been seen taking an article with
out doing something to avert suspicion
In one instance she ordered half
dozen pairs of gloves at s12 pair sent
to a fictitious name and address, while
she quietly concealed nine pairs IN her
handbag. Then she went through two
DEPARTMENTS where no one else was
stirring to test whether she was being
followed. Finding that she was, she re-
turned to the glove counter and apollo,
gized for having accidentally dropped
some gloves into her bas.
Saws Her Mind Is Blank
"Mv minds a blank and / don't re-
member taking anything" her attor-
ney. Mark Alter, reported her as saying
Yesterday He declared that she mad
wept and said that she would rather
90 to Jail than have her family learn
Of her arrest" She told him that she
came from Boston, had been educated
in Washington and had never taken
anything until five months ago, ana
didn't know why il happened
"The very fact that she took things
she didn't need and couldn't wear or
sell proves that it was kleptomania, be-
vond a doubt" Mr.. Alter declared.
Miss Clark's dresser drawers were
filed with tags that she had torn from
the looted garments Buyers of SIX
stores yesterday filled an inner room
at Police Headquarters, where they
identified such things as mole cape
appraised at $500, three pairs OF pumps
worth SIS, hundreds OF yards OF Irish
lace and scores of gowns, suits and
hats.
They've taken my own things, too
/ Miss Clark complained to her attorney
Her landlady said the police had barely
/ left the walls of the room.