Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1912 — Her Babies’ Entreaties Causes Woman to Steal [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Her Babies’ Entreaties Causes Woman to Steal

Kansas city, mo—" Bring us apmergd coral beads, some red ribbon, some red sweaters, and a new dress, mamma,” begged two little girls of Parsons,. Kan., when their mother kissed the other .. morning to come to* Kansas City on a shopping tour. To make sure that the mother would not forget they handed her a slip of paper, on which they had written their wants.”' All the time she was shopping she carried that paper in her hand, looking at it every little while, until its entreaty had burned itself into her thoughts. Tlje words of her little daughters cut deeper and deeper, for she had come to the city with only enough money to supply long needed wants—money that her husband had given her to buy a dress. As she walked through some of. the large department stores temptation came. ? This is the story the mother told Capt. Charles Edwards of the Walnut street station. The watchful eye of a store detective bad caught her and a Companion who had ccine with her

from Parsons, secreting goods under their cloaks. Their arrest and confessions followed. The mother had taken all that her children had asked for and more. In two suit cases that they confessed they had brought empty was found more than SIOO worth of silks, scarfs, ribbons, Jewelry and beads. These they had stolen by wrapping them as as the articles lay on the counter. “1 don’t know now why I did it,” the mother said, tearfully. “It seemed such an easy thing to do, and the things didn’t look like they woiild be missed.” Then she showed her daughters’ note to the c&ctal* . „