Show ahe THE STORE DETECTIVE one Ocen slon N V here aa lie got decia edl ill the N stort arst of it the tables were turned upon a worn wom an detective in one of the large depart went merit stores recently when a woman wl om ehe she had been following from counter to counter turned on her and not only pulled her hair but tore her gown to a policeman v s ho was sum boned by the detective the shopper said that ehe she was not riot a thief and that the detective e s espionage was an insult no arrest was made the female detectives are known to the regular patrons of the stores where they are employed and it is not fm probable v when hen the shopper said that it was an insult to be followed by this woman that she was thinking what opinion the other pers might form of b her er Onest one store orein in this town which obtained a lot of free advertising sev bev eral oral years ago became of the energy of its f female emale detective has paid heavily for it since it was a store which by ita its ar or ran gement offered great temptation to shop shoplifters lifters and undoubtedly it suffered from them the woman detective was engaged and as elie she was the pioneer of her claa she attracted so much atten tion that she became unduly ambitious in her line of work it if a chopi er hap lisp to pich pick up an article and walk to another counter with it a habit of many women the detective was right beside her and she felt that in the tile eyes of the sleuth she rile m was as a probable thief even if no arrest was attempted the annoyance of this woman a s ac eions ions became so great and the numbers of arrests made by her was so large t that the old patrons of the store fell away they felt that the risk of being en for a shoplifter outweighed the ad vantage of the bargains offered chi cao cago chronicle |