The sun., 1916-11-28
SHOPLIFTER
HIDES HER IDENTITY
elizabeth Scanlon's" Finger
Prints Tally With Those Of
Brokers' Wife.
LATTER FINED IN 1915
Police Say Prisoner Is Same
Person Who Told Of In
fluential Friends.

Only half Of h puzzle as TO the iden-
tity Of the young woman whom the po-
lice have epthroned as "the queen OF the
shoplifters" was solved yesterday. When
they found $4,000 worth Of finery In
her sixty-ninth street rooms on Saturday
and arrested her on a charge OF grand
larceny she said she was Elixabeth
Scanlon. or. II they preferred her moving
picture stage name. Marian clark. AS
Marian Clark she did have a small part
in the Famous Players Miss George
Washington shown at the Strand The
atre last week.
Yesterday she was taken from her cell
in the Jefferson Market Court prison.
where she Is awaiting arraisnment to-
morrow, and her finger prints were made
at Police Headquarters When the prints
were compared with those OF other
women arrested for robbing department
stores they Tailed exactly-so the police
say-with those OF Mrs. Edward Arm
helm, the wife Of a stock broker. who
was arrested on January 20. 1915, after
a chase through the NcAlpin Hotel and
I.iggett's drug store Mt Broadway and
Thirty fourth street. and fined s25 In
Special Sessions nine days later for
stealing several articles from a depart
ment store In Thirty.fourth street.
Mrs. Arnheim lived with her husband
at the Prince George Hotd. In Special
Sessions the Justices were told that her
family and previous reputation were ire
proachable, and In view OF ~extenuating
circumstances, including her mental con-
dition. she was let of with the small fine.
The police say that this woman and
n>~psA0nushIu Kent SeCPet.
Elizabeth Scanlon also talks OF her
family and of influential friends. but she
has not told even her lawyer. Mark
Alter. who her relatives are or where
they live. She asked him to do all he
could to keep the relatives in ignorance
Of her arrest. Mr.. Alter was asked yes
terday II she was Mrs. Arnheim. He re-
piled
II have Investigated that matter and
I cannot confirm or deny It at present"
Mr.. Alter spoke Of her as IAN unfor-
tunate young woman" who. II she had
stolen anything. had done so with no
mercenary motive, and said the fact that
she preserved in a bureau drawer the
tags OF the stores from which the mer-
chandise came instead OF destroying
them might tend to indicate mental in
competence. He said II might be pos
sible to have her sent to the p~sychopathic
ward Of Bellevue Hospital for observa-
ton, but he had not decided to do.
81 expect that she will be bailed to-
morrow he added. 81 ave reason to
believe that friends will furnish the
bond. What she says about having
friends OF position and influence Is true
Mr.. Alter said he did not know where
Mr.. .Arnheim was. m intimated that he
had not heard from the broker. \ New
ark newspaper man who sometimes
visited Elizabeth Scanlon in West sixty
ninth street and read Shakespeare with
her was trying to get bail for her yes.
terday.
Meanwhile the %truckload OF fnery
seized by the police was exhibited In
Capt. Deevy's Office In the headquarters
detective bureau so that agents OF stores
might examine and claim their own. h,
evening nine stores had established theii
right to take various articles away. bu'
two-thIrds OF the goods were unclaimed