Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1913 — This Woman Used Stocking as a Market Basket [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

This Woman Used Stocking as a Market Basket

PITTSBURGH. Pa—Whether the high coat of living or the fact that she did not want to be aeen carrying bundles along the street caused Mrs. Anna Miller of the North side to place two pounds of bacon and three supposed fresh eggs In her silken hose is trying to be ascertained by detect* Ives. She was held a prisoner under a technical charge of being a auspicious person. She refused to tell the reason for making a market basket out of a well-filled pair of hose. When the woman attempted to get on a Perrysville avenue car she was unable to do so owing the height of the steps and evident seas of breaking the eggs by too much of a strain. After the car had gone the woman walked around the corner of the market house and lifted her dress.

Policeman Schendal, who had quiet, ly followed her, noted the big lump on her limb, and suspecting all was not right questioned her. When she haughtily refused to explain Schendal placed her under arrest. At the station house the foodstuffs were found by the matron who searched the prisoner. Officer Schendal later said that his reason for arresting the woman was because the lumps on her leg "didn't look natural."