| Show PM IM CAUGHT GLAD PM IM SA SAYS YS ACCUSED ACTRESS 1 Mysterious Prisoner in 25 Theft Discloses Identity Br my The Telegrams Telegram's m Special X Nas w IM service ce 1 NI- NI NEW V YORK Dec Revealing 2 2 what the detectives declared to be beono beono beono ono of the most amazing accounts of or crime here in a generation police investigation investigation in investigation in- in of ot the story told by the prisoner describing herself as Miss 1 Elizabeth scan Scanlon on from whose apartment apartment apartment apart apart- ment th the police took alleged stolen property valued at more than showed the woman of the mystery 2500 tt tp be Miss Marion Clark who says she sho is a motion picture actress I The house somewhere in the city whose location the police refused to to divulge at the time of or the womans woman's ar arrest arrest arrest ar- ar rest is a fashionable furnished apartment apartment apartment apart apart- ment building in Sixty-ninth Sixty street I Inear near Central Park West There Miss 1 Clark had made her home since last August amid a veritable treasure Japanese art i io heap of evening gowns o objects expensive coats suits and other articles of womans woman's apparel and hundreds of pairs of expensive shoes and imported gloves all of or which the police accuse her of stealing Woman Detective on Case Fate and the intuition of a woman detective played the most important part in the arrest of Miss Scanlon as her name on the blotter in the detective bureau at police headquarters head head- quarters By BY a the woman under arrest chose as her home an apartment in the same house i where Mrs Alice Daggers lived For fifteen years Mrs 1 Daggers has been employed as a department store de detective detective detective de- de and now is in the employ of the store whose representatives appear appear appear ap ap- ap- ap pear as complainants against Miss 1 Scanlon Although the police declined to re reveal reveal re- re veal the fact it was from Mrs Daggers Daggers Daggers Dag Dag- Dag- Dag re-I re gers they received the first intimation intimation intimation tion that a woman living in the Sitay- Sitay ninth street house might be the mysterious mysterious mysterious mys mys- shoplifter who for several months had eluded detectives in all of the city's largest department stores For six weeks city detectives trailed the woman and yesterday they said it was the prisoners prisoner's evident refinement refinement refinement refine refine- ment and honest appearance that made them increasingly timid about accusing her Although the police pollee tried for hours to penetrate the mystery of the prisoners prisoner's prisoners prisoner's prisoners prisoner's pris pris- oner's real identity she steadfastly re refused refused refused re- re fused to give them any information concerning herself or her antecedents beyond admitting that she had lived at the Sixty-ninth Sixty street house as Miss Marion Clark Despite the fact that she had been known to the de detectives detectives detectives de- de by that name for several weeks while she was being watched she gave her name as Elizabeth Scanlon Scanlon Scan- Scan lon Ion when she was arraigned at the detective bureau and again yesterday in Jefferson Market court where she sheI I was held heid for further examination The They police court complaint accused her I specifically of stealing merchandise I valued at from one of the largest stores in the city on September 28 Confederates Sought With Miss 1 Scanlon or Clark in a acell acell acell cell the police sought unsuccessfully to find confederates who they believe must have aided In th the theft of much of the property For weeks they have had the aid of Mrs 1 Daggers other department store detectives and Mrs I Smith proprietor of the house in I which the woman was arrest arrested d It is the most remarkable case I II I ever heard of declared Capt James I Deevy in command of or the First Branch Detective Bureau who with several detectives succeeded in making oral ya partial Inventory inventor of the van load of property taken from Miss puss Scanlon's apartment I lOr asked her what led her to steal these things and how in the name of II heaven she ever managed to to- carry them out of the stores said Deevy Between sobs she said she did not know Thank God the thin thing is over she said Im glad Im I'm caught I asked her what she intended todo todo to todo do with all that stuff for I could not conceive how any person would dare to keep so many thousand dollars' dollars worth of property in such a small apartment All she would say w was s I was foolish I dont don't know Well I asked her said Captain Deevy How did you get out of the store with these hats Oh I r just walked out out she answered I IA A Woman of Mystery The woman was a mystery to every everyone everyone everyone one in the house in which she lived It was the secrecy she maintained about herself and her refusal to be become ome ac acquainted acquainted ac- ac with any anyone one living there that led Mrs Daggers first fir to t-to to become suspicious of her and reveal her suspicions suspicions sus sus- us- us to the police She Sh told us Smith that she had come here her from Chic Chicago go But when she was arrested she told the th-e police she had come ome here from Boston where she had been employed by a film company She told us she had traveled in Japan that her father had died In Chicago recently and she was I awaiting settlement of or his estate It was the settlement of this e estate tate that she used to explain the presence In her room of the heaps of garments and other stuff she now is accused of stealing She said she had little or no other ther money and that she was compelled to sell a large part of these hese articles given to her by her wealthy parent who died in order to pay her living expenses until she r received her inheritance This explanation seemed plausible I but lt she wa was so mysterious about everything she did that our attention was attracted to her movements At least one very prominent actress used to call her on the telephone Her friends the few she had appeared to tobe tobe tobe be wealthy O One e woman who came came cameto cameto to see her in an automobile of very expensive make lived at the Waldorf- Waldorf Astoria Kept Her Room Closed She objected to any anyone one every en entering entering entering en- en her hel room except my housekeeper housekeeper housekeeper house house- keeper who went in to clean the apartment She had some mysterious me means means ns of or knowing every time any ny one did go in there and she raised many manya a fuss on this account No one ever ver ever touched a thing in her apartment yet she could tell every time the door was opened and upbraided us for it She frequently came home at night quite late and we thought it very peculiar that the taxicab chauffeur who drove her to the house carried bundles into her room She seemed never to take anything out of the house and there was not a a. scrap p of writing of ot any kind in the place when the detectives cleared It out last night that would reveAl anything about her heror heror heror or the stuff in her room She told us she had lived at several of the largest hotels in hi the city and we believed sHe slie had When she first came her mail was forwarded to her from one of these hotels Taking up the story where Mrs Smith left off Captain Deevy declared that despite his thirty years' years police experience he was unable to comprehend comprehend comprehend compre compre- hend how one person could have stolen even half the stuff taken from the prisoners prisoner's apartment If she actually stolle all of that stuff herself and she insists she did said gaid Captain Deev Deevy she is the most remarkable woman shoplifter ever everI 1 I captured anywhere She is obviously a woman of liberal education I talked to her for several hours and she never uttered anything that might be at all considered a slangy expression She js is a frail delicate singularly pretty little woman whom the detectives who trailed her repeatedly reported to me they were afraid to accuse until they were absolutely certain of I their charge A Judge of Values She knew values apparently better than many of the store detectives She Shedid Shedid Shedid I did not have a single low priced article in her lier room Everything we took from her room was of or the highest grade I For instance the gloves found all were Imported and made by the best French I manufacturers Gloves at 3 a pair I were a rarity in that collection There were more shoes worth 10 a pair than i there were worth north half that amount I 1 All of the underwear In the collection collection collection tion was of the finest silk Laces were of the best and an onyx and gold jewel case bore the name of the Tiffany studios Handbags s and purses which filled four handgrips were of the finest materials and hand I ered e Little objects of pottery which I bore bon the stamp of Russian and JapI Japanese Jap Jap- I anese anew objects of art in ivory and and- the like showed the most discriminating j I taste Look at those silk Hk waists tailor made suits suits- fur coats fur neck pieces It was an experienced eye and one that readily recognized values that selected them I cannot conceive how howa a shoplifter ever got those hats there hats there must be hundreds of them out them out of the stores Labels and other identifying marks had been ren ved from ev everything we found in the place A beautiful plush coat cov covered red telephone directory did not have a scratch of writing on it The police described the prisoner as one of the best dressed women they ever had seen Captain Deevy said she was as pretty as a doll and certainly certainly certainly not more than twenty-five twenty ye years years' rs' rs old In that description of the woman Mrs Smith did not concur I dont don't know how managed she to do it said Mrs Smith But ut I have seen her in her rooms Jn in n the with her hair down and she couldn't have been less than thirty fit thirty or or or thirty-eight thirty years old But when she was all doll dolled d up and went out in the afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon I I couldn't help help- but admit that she had t turned time backward for forno forno forno no one then could judge jl li her r for more than eighteen eig or twenty years old |
