Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1917 — INTERESTING ITEME FRON THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INTERESTING ITEME FRON THE CITIES

Shoplifting Business Is Declining in New York NEW YORK. — : The shoplifting -business; like many-other-liMfttstrJcs which formerly flpurtshedluTi'Wluiuts, bur which to find fnv<w In tlm » > y»‘s of the aiithiirilies.. is-18--H-4wTtbwftj*-4edeedrwwd 11 iffiglfi'S Td look as it tn the not

distant future the shoplifter will be about as rywe a Specimen in and about" this city as the gVRit auk and tlie manufacturers of wooden nntmegs. “ There are two most excellent reasons for this pleasing change. One of these is that the system of policing the larger stores of the city has bedn reduced almost to a science, the other is that lawswhich went into effeet a few months ago made it sible for the courts to inflict very severe sentences.