Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-15
THREE WOMEN
CHARGED WITH
SHOPLIFTING
Merchandise of Considerable
Value Recovered With
Arrest of Two.

Three women arrested yesterday after
noon are charged with larceny and are
alleged to be shoplifters. Two of them
were arrested by city detectives who re-
covered hundreds of dollars worth of
merchandise.
These two gave their names as Francis
Paterson, %, 616 North Meridian street,
and Dorothy Faulkner, 81 who at first
and she lived at 2464 Schurmann avenue,
and later gave her address as 1928 West
Twenty Fifth street
Both have been arrested before the POI
lice say. Operatives of the Quigley Hy-
land Detective Agency arrested the other
alleged shoplifter for whom they have
searched for several months She gave
her name as Alice Carson, 20, Ats North
Randolph street. According to the de-
tectives the woman stole a pair of hose
at a downtown department store several
months ago. but escaped from a woman
detective before being arrested. The de-
tective said she saw Miss Carson Satur-
day take a pair Of gloves at a depart
ment store on Washington street. She
attempted to stop her at the door, but
the woman got away from her and ran
to Meridian street and escaped in the
crowd, it was alleged The detective
located the young woman at a cigar store,
where she is employed, and the arrest fol-
lowed.
PRISONERS RELEASED
WITHOUT BOND
Following the usual custom the alleged
shoplfter who is charged with petit lar
ceny was turned over the custody OF the
women's police department and an officer
OF that department was Slated" as the
srresting officer However Miss Car
sons name is marked 20. r. by order Of
Captain Burnsides), which means that
Capt. Clara Burnsides of the women's
police depart" ent released the prisoner
without rquir:nc bond. Miss Carson had
admitted the thefts, according to private
detectives.
A tip telephoned by the proprietor of
shining parlor resulted in the arrest
Of the Patterson and Faulkner women.
Hundreds Of dollars worth of merchan-
disc obtained from the New York Store,
L. s. Ayres Seligs, ard the William
II. Block Company was recovered. While
searching a room Cf one of the women
last night the detectives found a man
giving his name as Fred Mclaughlin, 81,
40 North Alabama street. He claimed to
be the brother Of one Of the women and
said he had purchased three Of the
dresses for her However. he later adj
mite he was not relative Of the wom-
an and that he knew the dresses were
stolen. He WIS arrested and held on the
charge Of vagraney.l
LEFT PACKAGES
AT SHINING PARLOR.
The detectives learned at the shining
parlOr that two women had asked to
leave number Of packages there These
articles were so poorly wrapped that
they aroused suspicion and the police
were notified. When the women returned
they We're arrested. The merchandise
included silk dresses, several pieces Of
silk underwear. two dozen expensive
handkerchiefs, gloves and other articles.
The value Of this merchandise is about
$780, In the room of one of the women
the detectives recovered six dresses last
night
The Patterson woman admitted she was
arrested four years ago in company with
another woman charged with stealing a
5000 fur coat from Whitman's store. The
other woman was sent to prison, but she
was not convicted at that time, she told
the police. She said that she had been
arrested at Cleveland for shoplifting, but
escaped by paying for the stolen articles.
The Faulkner woman was arrested on the
charge of vagrancy at one time. the police
say. Both women were fashionably
dressed.