Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1911 — Pretty Girl Thief Gets $600 by Ruse [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Pretty Girl Thief Gets $600 by Ruse

Philadelphia, p».— wh&t the police declare to be one of the boldest and most carefully planned robberies perpetrated here in recent years was committed by a beautiful 21-year-old girl, who, Impersonating an inspector In the John Wanamaker store, collected S6OO in cash from five cashiers.. Thar the girl did not succeed In getting away with several thousand dollars was due to the young woman cashier in the suit and cloak department, who refused to turn over the day's prooeeds to the “inspector." The only clew to the girl’s Identity that the store detectives have found Is the signature she used In signing receipts for the money she collected. On each of the live receipts turned over to the cashiers she signed in a bold, firm hand the initials “M. R. C.” That the robbery was carefully

planned is evidenced by the fact the gir’ preceded the regular Inspector, who dally collects the cash, by but a few minutes. So close was her calculation that while she was getting cash from one cashier the regular inspector was collecting from a cash register only a few feet away. She told the cashier that the regular Inspector has been discharged and she would in future make daily collections. Without a word the cashier turned over about SSO In bills of small denominations, which the collector put in a small tin box—a duplicate of the one carried by the regular Inspector. The same performance was repeated at one of the counters On the main floor. Emboldened by her success, the girl madesher way to the suit and cloak department, but the cashier there became suspicious and refused to turn over the day's cash, which amounted to more than $4,000. The girl did not remonstrate, but saying she would take along the schedule of the day's business went to another counter on the same floor and was successful in making collections.