Show i CNICAGO ClEVER I IOMAN N 8URGl R ENTERED CAREER FOR MEANS TO BUY BETTER CLOTHING FOR HER CHILDREN I I I LADY WITH THE SUIT CASE Always Carried Small Valise on Her Plundering ExcursionsSays She Stole Only to Make Young Ones Happier Chicago Six Indictments for burglary burg-lary have been found by the grand Jury against Mrs gila Klein of 114 Perry street who on the resolve of u moment entered Into a career that transformed her Into the cleverest woman burglar In Chicago Mrs Klein who has heretofore lived the simple and innocent life of the average aver-age mother of a growing family says that the desire to see her four children dressed as those of her wealthy neighbors neigh-bors on the North side augmented by the Idle suggestion of a thoughtless friend that burglary was not wrong launched her Into a career of crimeS seldom equaled in dating b crime-S that of man moan1s she grasped the bars of her cell In the comity Jail Mrs Klein told of her downfall of how she quit a life of honesty for one of crime when her children told her of the taunts and ridicule heaped upon them on account of their clothing by their more fortunate for-tunate schoolmates Mrs Klein has gained the name In police circles of the woman with the suit case owing to her invariable habit of carrying a satchel with her when her robberies were committed t I did Itovery robbery she i I sobbed just to keep my children I from suffering Not from hunger but from the ridicule of their companions My husband did not furnish me enough mono to dress my two boys and two girls as well as their schoolmates school-mates They would come home crying cry-Ing and would beg for better shoes nicer dresses and hats and sometimes n few pennies with which to treat their companions Their misery nearly broke my heart I starved myself I went without with-out everything except the absolute necessities of life Then although I was a respectable woman and had a 4 c m 2i IuJ r i I Y1 I r1 e She Burglarized That Her Children Might Be Well Clothed horror of theft and criminals I fell I was tired of slaving my life away I started to rob and I have kept It up What put burglary into your mind 7 she was asjted I met a fashionably dressed woman wom-an and she said to me The world owes you and your children a living You are as much entitled to tho good things of life ns the rich Ill show you how to take a little of their wealth from them Before I hardly knew what I was doing I had robbed I became a burglar bur-glar at the psychological moment I believe to arouse somo latent ten dency toward wrongdoing Then I stole right and left but always for my children What I secured was used in making my babies lives Imp pier I tried to stop and did for a long time Then tho Impulse struck me again I seemed to have no control over my actions I robbed and this la what It has brought mo to At heart I am an honest woman nnd Ill kill that Imuulso when im M leased or die trying to Mrs Kleins plan of entering houses was unique and afforded her protec tion from immediate detection Carry Ing a small valise In her hand she would ring tho doorbell and when she received no response would enter with tho aid of skeleton keys If some ono answered her ring she would ask for a certain person ex plain she hud Just arrived In Chicago and would request directions fur reaching surh and such a street ber the number num corresponding with that of tho house at which she had stopped A year ago evidence was given tin I grand Jury In an attempt to conneci her with 17 other burglaries EIou of the cases were returned no bill and she I was hold under 3500 bon on tho others Previous to this tin she had served three months hi r county jail or bum fury |