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Show MISTAKE OF SCHOOL GIRL Love of Pretty Things Leads Chicago Miss to Turn Thief. CHICAGO. March 2l.-Yearning for the attractive clothes and the pleasures enjoyed en-joyed by more fortunate girls, Mary Smith, a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl, has stolen a purse containing $71. bought a new hat, a bouquet of flowers and a box of candy, and then secured a ticket of admission In the gallery of a theater, where she was found by the police. She had til in cash, and $.V had been found previously In the basement of the Huron school, where she had hidden It. The purse belonged to a woman visitor at the school, and was missed shortly after the Smith girl had been excused by her teacher. |