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Show GIRL SHOPLIFTER HAS NOVEL STORY SAN FRAKCIFFO. May 9 Dlsclo sure of a ring bl 6b iplifterd which had trained her to thai occupation and to which ihn was bound by an oath was made in a statement given the police, they declared, b) Harriet Crothera, 21 jears old and pretty. The girl, who alo Is known as Rae Dupont. was questioned in the pref encu of representatives of ten San Francisco department stores and ad mitted, the officers said, the theft of $16,000 worth of goods from those establishments es-tablishments She was arrested last Saturday night According to tho girl's purported statement she wns bound by her pledge to the ring which tralnod her to act as a shoplifter for 15 years. Miss Crothera wr.s quoted by tho police as saying she had taken 200 silk dresses the first day tdie "worked" in San Francisco. According to their version of her statement, she learned the technique of the uraft at a school in Chicago which she attended for three months. |