Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-12-29 | Page 8 | Not Much Shoplifting

NOT MUCH shoplifting salt lake doc 26 the managers of the big dry goods stores report that as far as they have been able to ascertain they have been troubled very little by shoplifters shop lifters pretty strict watch has been kept and one store has had four detectives constantly watching during the holiday rush but so far no specific case can be mentioned however the managers have no doubt that considerable stealing has been done in tho largo cities regular corps of detectives are employed the larger stores having a chief detective who superintends super intends all the searching some women carry a skirt doubled up under their dress ako a hag into which stolen articles of small bulk are dropped by a string connection the fastening can be released so that the skirt may be dropped down like an ordinary article of attire this releases tho contents which drop onto the floor other women catey long bags under their dresses and some carry a box done up like a package alth one end open which they cutely drop over some small object that is desired and thus carry it off men shoplifters shop lifters generally conceal their thefts under long coats