Show HOW SHOPLIFTERS WORK WORt Most Mosi Mos Daring of All Criminals and Hardest to Deal With Brooklyn agle Lifters remarked the store detec detective detective detective tive Oare are the cleverest and most dar daring darIng darin ing in criminals alive Also the most dif dir difficult difficult to deal with Lifters it should uld be explained are better known to the general public by the general nae nadie of shoplifters The reason I consider them the cleverest and most mm t daring contin continued continued ned the detective ois is that they Will work and work successfully under the very eyes of those who are constantly constant on the alert for their Lifters usually operate in couples One will come comp into the store with the deliberate intention of oC causing the bull to be sus suspicious suspicious suspicious of ot his hla or her movements What is a bull I r am a bull in shoplifter language But to continue Having at nt attracted attracted the attention of oC the bull by some suspicious movement the lifter will tr try to lead him a purposeless dance all aU around the store coining coming as near to stealing as possible without actually taking anything and so luring the de detective detective on this false trail In order to leave the field open to the confederate who follows the decoy into the store Of course an experienced detective is on guard and if he knows the first lifters operations are a mere mere plant he will decline ne to be hoodwinked But these lifters are so clever that there is little choice but to follow the leader and detail some one else to watch for br forthe forthe the coming of o the confederate Other Otherwise Otherwise wise the leader aware that the bull bullis bullis bullIs is looking for tor the other one will in instantly Instant instantly stant assume the chief role and leave his confederate to play decoy dec y to the de detective d teethe Their TheIl shifty schemes are num numberless numberless numberless berless and they are up to something new ne all an the time The detective led the way to his pH private vate yate office Unlocking the door of a a bureau he disclosed a museum of crim criminal mat inal curiosities of ot the newest type Here Js Is a receptacle that we found beneath ben ath the cloak of ot one woman said the bull bun It is almost capacious enough to a household lot It is isa Isa isa a bag that can be filled one end and then thou reversed and tilled rifled the other end being kept covered by b a lifters coat co t all the time When we w caught the woman who carried this she had it filled with costly stockings and lace They T ey gen generally generally emily carry a bag of some kind beneath their coat Here Hero is 13 a small black one that we took from one lifter It Js ls as you see ee a common affair that can be pulled tight at the neck by a string She carried this Just inside the opening of her coat and under the cover of her muff had been very busy bus dropping small articles of Jewelry Into it when we spotted her Speaking of muffs they are the best friend the lifter has It is the easiest trick In the world to rest the muff on the counter and engage a salesgirl in conversation while the hand handis is pushed through the muff and kept at work drawing articles from the counter count r into the safe saCe hiding place of ot the The girls behind the counter can scarcely be expected to have eyes enough to see the lightning like movements of the hand as it darts daris out of the muff and back again with its and it would be necessary to employ an army anny corps of detectives to watch the actions of all suspected persons in the store The game is worked re repeatedly repeatedly and Is very difficult to The lifter litter uses an artificial hand her real hand being hidden beneath her cape or cloak To the unsuspecting eyes of the salesgirl or observant floorwalker the woman at the counter has both hands in plain view and both are per perfectly stilL The artificial hand is of oC course gloved exactly like the real hand that it Is supposed to be the fellow to and as it rests on the counter or 01 is clasped in the other it looks hooks so natural that detection is almost Impossible But while this neatly gloved hand band rests in plain sight the hand beneath the t e cloak Is reaching for everything that is worth stealing and passing It quickly and ant easily into the bag beneath the cloak When the lifter has made her haul she raises in a dignified manner man r and marches off oft the hidden hand closely concealed and the false one looking as natural as life A common trick of the lifter Is to walk to a mirror to try on a skirt watch her opportunity and estape wearing the skirt The other day we arrested a woman who was wearing no noless noless noless less than six skirts that she had picked up In her days day campaign Clever lift lifters ers era will stand at a counter side by b side One will reach around with her hand hidden by the others coat pick up ar articles r tides of oC value from the counter and drop them Into the open bag at the theother theother I other womans belt The beauty of this trick is that the one with the wander wandering wandering I ing hand is almost invariably pounced upon while the woman with the bag escapes in the confusion Result Ar Arrest Arrest Arrest rest indignant protest search nothing found t und detective or floorwalker covered with confusion and chagrin The suit case trick Is another clever cleer device The suit case used is bottomless and is usually carried by crooks who prowl around railroad stations Many careless travelers leave their suit eases cases cases on the platform or on the floor of a awaiting awaiting I waiting room while they the purchase a i ticket or seek information at the bureau window Along comes the th crook with I the bottomless suit case drops the case case over the top of the one that lies un unwatched unwatched Unwatched watched on the floor lights a cigar or does some little stunt to convince any anyone anyone anyone one looking hooking at him film that he merely drop dropped dropped dropped ped his own suit case for such a pur purpose purpose purpose pose and when he leaves the victims case will go with him caught up inside by b his bottomless bag Lifters adopted this plan with success Their bottom bottomless bottomless bottomless less grips rest on the counter and pinch pin i off all kinds of things that vanish as I though reduced to ether while no one sees the them th m Orte Ofle O e h Sto be bevery bevery very cl sure before accusing a woman w m n of I Even Een when we are certain I an article was Intentionally taken it is difficult to prove and enforced restitution restitution tion is the ti only remedy |