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Show Oddities of Shoplifting. A retired merchant in. one ot the large cities says the oddest lot of criminals In this country are the shoplifters. shop-lifters. They will travel from ono large city to another, from the Atlantic Atlan-tic to the Pacific, not staying In any place long enough to be recognized, and reaping a harvest. A peculiar fact Is the large number of women of means who do this kind of thing. Rich women will ateal trifling articles for which you would think they had no need and could very easily afford to buy. The firm does not know whether wheth-er It should excuse the guilty parties or Jtrrest them. Those women plead kleptomania many times, but since the stores have begun to enlarge their detective service to such an extent, ovon giving saleswomen these positions, posi-tions, It Is becoming more and more difficult for things to be taken It now takes a clever woman Indeed to tako anything from a department store. |