Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1892 — Peculiar Thieving. [ARTICLE]

Peculiar Thieving.

“You go right away from that window, young man, 01* I’ll call a policeman!” The speaker was the forewoman of a swell Fifth avenue millinery shop, and she came out of the door like a newly exploded rocket. A shabby young man with a small pad held in the hollow of one hand and a stubby pencil in the other, was the object of her remark. He dropped his drawing utensils into his coat pockets and, turning on his heel, walked rapidly down the avenue. The forewoman re-entered the store with a triumphant smile. “That's the third time I’ve caught him,” she said, in response to a shower of questions from the coterie of customers, ‘‘and if he tries it again I’ll have him put in jail. He’s in the employ of a cheap hat and bonnet factory over on the east side, and about once in every two weeks he makes a round of the principal millinery store windows and takes rough sketches of the newest and most striking designs. “Of course, as soon as a fashion or a style reaches the Bowery it ceases to be worth anything to us, so we make every effort to protect our novelties as long as possible.’’—[New York Commercial Advertiser.