Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-04-09
NAMPA POLICE
ARREST ALLEGED
SHOPLIFTERS
Two w o m 9 n Claiming
Mountain Home as Resi-
dence. Had Been Here
Only Few Weeks. Came
From Montana.

Larry Maloney, chief of police Of
Nampa. arrested Miss Addie Powell
]. C. Powell and Mrs. Rose Herring
Saturday on a charge of shoplifting
The trio are not from Mountain
Home as was stated in the States
man, but from Gooding and Great
Falls, Montana, and for the past
few weeks had been visiting with
Mrs. May Browne at the Mountain
Home Hotel. They received a fine
Of fifty dollars each with the alter
native of Jail sentence for petit
larceny by A. e. Blunck, acting city
magistrate on the recommendation
of Clarence S. Hill, prosecuting at
torney for Canyon county Monday
morning J. G. Powell, brother Of
Miss Powell was dismissed by the
court.
According to the police the trio
had been in the Ormond shoe store
at Nampa, Saturday evening and
when they left the clerk who had
waited on them discovered that
pair of slippers which they looked
at had disappeared. The clerk
rushed to the street and hailed the
traffic policeman and the two women
and man were taken to the station.
1t is asserted that the value of the
goods taken from the Golden Rule
store, the Smith Cloak store and the
Ormond store will reach a valua-
ton in excess of $500.
The tip to look for the trio came
from Boise, after Harry Runyon of
the White-Runyon Shoe company,
and S. e. Brookover of the Brook
over store had notified the Boise
police to be on the lookout for the
three.
1t was apparent, Mr.. Runyon said,
that the three were novices, for
their work was crude. Mr.. Runyon
tells the following story: One of
the women had already paid $40
down on coat at Brookovers and
she called at the store Saturday af
ternoon and asked to have it sent
G. 0. d. $50 to her address at Noun
tain Home She then went to the
millinery department and paid for
hat. Here she asked the address
Of good shoe store and was sent
to the White-Runyon. AT this
store she asked to have one pair
of shoes taken from the window
that she might try t1Tem on. She
paid cash for another pair and as
the clerk was about to return the
first pair to the window she re-
marked he had better leave them,
she might decide ito take both.
When she had gone the window pair
of shoes was found to be missing.
Just at this time the milliner from
Brookover's appeared in haste, ask
ing for her and said one of her best
hats was missing.
1t was then that the other stores
and the police were notified, but
the three had left town suddenly.
A number of articles of wearing
apparel amounting to about $500
were found on the three which have
not been identified as yet, and the
Boise sheriff's office has announced
that it would appreciate 1T If any
merchants who missed articles FRI
day or Saturday would describe
them and notify the office.
One of the women wore a hand
some fur coat Saturday and it isl
thought she hid the hat and shoes
beneath it.
The Ada county sheriff Monday
telephoned to the Nampa police that
a warrant had been sworn out for
the trio. They were taken to Boise
Monday afternoon by Sheriff Ag-
new and Deputy Sheriff Robinson
and are being held.
There is also a warrant for thelr
arrest at Glenns Ferry, the police
said.