Show SHOP LIFTERS CAUGHT TWO WOMEN COVETED FINE GOODS took articles from fauerbach rAu erbach bro and the th lacs lace house merchants ch ts conclude not to prosecute I 1 two women both young both bolh wort more than llian ordinarily and both will well know it in the city nora ro arrested esterday aftem af tenion oil tor for shop neither vt as in destitute condition an and d neither according to the stories each toll told stole because of duel necessity it waa simply a desire for or things and OL a lack of 0 logal tenders lenders that d drove rove them to violate tile the law one of the patti partle irk in the case is 1 married alio other has haa lost lort her b er husband both bolh have it it charged t been be ell lifting goods for 0 oer cr two years but only yesterday were they caught in the act ail and mads made positive yesterday yei erday forenoon oro noon J canso Ran half proprietor 0 ter at 0 the lace house on maan street was waiting on some noine customers st omers in his store when he h noticed two women standing near ani and acting I 1 la n a wry very peculiar manner he 1 looked away tor for a 9 moment and wit tn he turned eyes buck saw one 0 of the I 1 he women in ili the act of 0 hurriedly fi tuffIng something into ca a shopping bag ba which rho ho carried carrie on her arm her actions were soi so suspicious auspicious that mr Rons took particular notice of 0 the women and when they left the st etore 0 re which they did almost h he followed them they walked along alone the street tor for some soma distance stanca dl followed oll owed by mr ir ran and sergeant Eel scant and botn robert roberts i who had ben been notified by bv him finally the two women woman turned and entered thi the stairway next to tho the daynes murdo bons houra some komo farther up the street tile the officers officer followed and nl by the time they had bad reached tra the head of 0 the ho stara tar the two women were seen going down u n calr at 0 back stairs evidently in the hope of escaping that way they frus rated in this tor for a a hll high board tenet fence obstructed e tod their further progress noth I 1 rig wa wat t left buti blab to put on a bold front and this they did the bags were hurriedly cast behind a coal box by ahls time sergeant Set scant burbidge came up lie he placed the women under orrest arrest and they were taken to the police station where they protested innocence tor for it a long lone while one ot of them was especially Pec ally tally indignant sho she declared ant it was a shame and ran an outrage alter after awhile he however irever they grave gave lit in and made a full confes idon paying that they had been stealing ns for or some noron elmp alm 1 I dont ont know why we did it VAN said ono are but bat we are poor and jonm bom h how Q A y or other could nta goi go into a store a and n 1 sea a a pretty piece of p illet or ribbon without feeling an irr L longing to steal it and so ao wo we did believing that a search of 0 the wo mona homes might bring em ething to light a search warra barranti war nab was waa secured iland detective sheets and amt burbidge went to one of 0 tho the houses same little ume time was consume in lookin ing about tho the house hoube but finally the detective raw BAW a larga larea bundle bandl e ot 0 t stuff on top at 0 a wardrobe Rea reaching chInT up he pulled it down A perfect shower of 0 almost every article toi to bo be to found u d in SL a dry goods gooda store followed bol dolta ts of all it and maln p pieces lecca of at lice ilce handkerchiefs handkerchief a purses hand lass lags vests and other articles wora there the whole pack together alth ith was found in the other hoesr was waa taken to the stat station ign A of 0 F r bro bra came fit and identified part of 0 tile the stuff Ps a coining brorn awn their store and mr claimed chii rest tile tha goods taken from amounts ft ini in value to about while that from rom tile tho laco lace w waa worth about 5 it was at first thought that thi the women would be prosecuted for or grand laro larceny vily but mr auerbach wits was un willin sr to allear against gliem as a was also mr ml i danhoff Ran BOhon hoff the women were vory poni penitent tent and wept copiously all the After afternoon nooh A As tho merchants merob ants de aldei not to tn prosecute county attorney rey whittemore Whitte moro allowed the women lo 10 depart oo on their a oa n recognizance |