Show WOMEN ARE SHREWD CRIMINALS old police officer gives testimony as to their ability as pickpockets go into sate safe blowing women are making progress along more than one line remarked an old member e r of a city police force A recent example shows that they are quite as efficient as men in the matter of safe safo blowing woman in the role of safe blower is new to the police the fact is that the operation of female offenders has heretofore been confined to offenses of the daytime or of the early part of the night but here comes a story from tennessee of the arrest of several women who be long to a gang of expert cracksmen and who rho actually took part in a in a small town near nash ville where they robbed a bank and got 1700 women have often developed into epbert forgers as tor for instance in the recent case of an american woman abroad who succeeded in conducting a forgery scheme for a considerable length of time and until she had fraudulently collected a vast sum of money they make high class pick pockets and in fact are infinitely more successful in this line of work than men one curious fact in this connection despite the frequent announcements publicly made of offenses of this kind committed by women men are never on the lookout for the female pick pocket unless they find themselves in a questionable resort and in bad corn com pany for this very reason women find it much easier to pick a mans man pocket they can get closer to men too without ba becoming coming offensive and can lift toe too diamond pin out of his hi scarf nip his watch ac an I 1 1 chain or any other valuable thing ho he may way have before he w ill ever dream of danger in that kind of pilfering too peculiar pecullar to kleptomania she Is more successful because in this instance of the way she dresses an I 1 woman a peculiar pecullar demeanor around the counter counters in dry goods stores if a n an for in stance should go into a dry good goods store and begin ta pick up little thing things and tumble fumble over them apparently for the purpose of in inspection he would at once arouse the suspicion of every clerk within visual range on oil the other hand a woman may do exactly the same thing without exciting the h least suspicion it Is simply looked upon as a matter of comparative ease fo the kleptomaniac but the woman sate safe blower Is a new type as far as my experience exper lenc goes and I 1 suppose it simply means that the police pollee of the country will soon seem be confronted with many new lems in dealing with the female of i tender fender b |