Show Girls Girls' Nab Mexican MexicanA A As Pickpocket and Cause His Arrest Detective Work of Alert Clerks Alleged to Have Saved Purse Piercing glances from the eagle eyes of of lisses' lisses Misses Lenore Rector and Mabel Collins alert clerks of the Lane Fifteen Fifteen Fifteen I teen Cent store last Jast night resul resulted ed in inthe inthe inthe the arrest of Joe Maeo a Mexican HeI Heis He lie lieIs Is now in the city jail jaU and will later be I given an opportunity to explain to the court just why his bis hand happened to tobe tobe tobo be bo in the pocketbook of a patron of ot the he store last night The Mexican also is wanted by the Walker Brothers Dry Go Goods ds company which c complains that he has displayed the same peculiarity while doing business business business busi busi- ness in that store The police department department department depart depart- ment had been l looking oking for him for several several several sev sev- eral days daye according to Captain John Hempel but detectives had failed where two girls proved masters Maeo according to the statement of the two girls both clerks at the jewelry jewelry jew jew- elry dry counter of the fifteen-cent fifteen store had been hanging around for tor balfan half balf I an hour or more He didn't seem to want to buy but liked to look at ar articles articles ar- ar tides for sale When a woman patron was purchasing ing some Jewelry the clerks said his hand gradually slipped from its proper sphere and went under the tho womans woman's arm The girls WE were amazed as his action showed no desire to caress the woman but rather to fo embrace the pocketbook The girls were speechless speechless speechless speech speech- less until the purse had been opened Just as his hand was in it it Miss Collins said I 1 nudged Lenore and Lenore called the manager When the Mexican had taken his hand out of the purse he said What you mean Pickpocket Pickpocket Pickpocket Pick Pick- pocket Me not that kind Ellwood Lane manager turned the Mexican over to the police department and he was booked b by Sergeant Dan Grundvig to be held pending further investigation in Unless more evidence can be gained the charge will b be bs at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted pick According to Sergeant Grundvig the Mexican was sulky and hard boiled He Ue gave his age as 20 the sergeant sergeant sergeant ser ser- geant said aid and protested his Innocence Innocence innocence inno Inno- cence of picking pockets As for his age r T think it was as near 30 as 20 According to Manager Lane women clerks are Unusually acute at catching sly ly or suspicious movements I They The would m make ke admirable de de- he said I |