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Show PAYROLL Builders of Utah. John F. Bennett of the Bennett Paint & Glass company of Salt Lake. SHOPLIFTERS IE TOiJT PORTLAND Employees of Big Department Depart-ment and Jewelry Stores Belong to Gang. TORTLAKD, Ore., April S An alleged al-leged shoplifters' syndicate, composed oL nearly a score of persons, mostly women, was uncovered today, tho police assert, following five arrests made yesterday. yes-terday. Today a half dozen more arrests ar-rests woro made. At noon a storeroom in tho courthouse court-house was heaped with recovered loot. Virtually every hip department and jewelry "store in Portland has sufforod lossos and tho loot, valued at thousands thou-sands of dollars, is of almost overy variety, even including art objects. Confessions have heon obtained, tho district attorney's office declares, from nearly all of those arrested, and a complaint allogiug theft was sworn out today against Mrs. Ruth Noil, assorted as-sorted to bo one of the leaders. The thefts gcnorall' wero accomplished, accom-plished, it is said, by clerks belonging belong-ing to the ring, who would load oul-sido oul-sido workers, posing as customers, with stolen goods. Tho women under arrest arc Mrs. Ella Crcar, employee of a jewelry store, nnd her daughter Sylvia; Miss j Louise Kulrikon. Mrs. Delia Rhudo and Mrs. Jurgo I1n.ll, all employed in tho suit department of a large 'department store, and Mrs. Ruth JSieil and Miss Prances Zollander, former clerks, but now unemployed. F. FYiedlaiidcr, a jeweler, in -whoso store Mrs, Crcar had been employed, told Deputy Robinson today that ho had been obliged lo "charge off" $20,000 worth of jewels and silvcr.waro which had disappeared from his place. |