Show Purse Swiping At a dance in the Hotel El EI Escalante Escalante Esca- Esca lante ante hall recently Leon Hall had hadlis his lis purse and silk handkerchief stolen from his pocket Mr Hall remembers taking his purse out to secure his enhance entrance entrance en en- trance hance fee and andi placing the same back in n his pocket When he went to get his handkerchief which he kept in the same pocket he found it was not there and his purse was also missing Both had iad been purloined while h he was dancing dancing dancing ing no doubt And again last Sunday Alex Matheson Mathe- Mathe son had h purse taken from his pocket sometime somewhere during his perambulations between the tourIst tourist tourist tour tour- park cemetery and home He lie remembers remembers remembers re re- members distinctly having the purse 0 O. K K in his trousers pocket that morning morning morning morn morn- ing and is at a loss to know just how howit it ever got away their being no hole in the bottom of the pocket and impossible impossible impossible im im- possible forit to slip out at the top Seems to be cases of purse swiping Everyone having a purse with money in it it will do well to keep a watchful eye and hand on it I |