People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1895 — HER “LIFTER,” [ARTICLE]

HER “LIFTER,”

The Clover Cotitrtv U-itnl |*y a F*. tllKltf; . iliefwU . “Profess'onxl shoplift jri.” continued the Witcher as-h » -glanced quickly up an I tloiyn th >. aisle., ■’are iiard to catch. T;i -y have all sorts of contrivances to assist them in making vay w.t.h plunder.. 11a woman wdo lives right here wa«s eaugh.t in >nr store last week with a t arrange* nent.which be.-fts them all. ’ It was > > simnle, too’. .1 ist a box, about the - ze of a shoe -box, wrappe 1 in paper tnd ti -d aio tn ; i with string. It looked for all tiie w,or.d lice an orJi* nary pae‘cage’from so q ; store, , * “The worn mlt id beeri'eiming often to our store, and 1 notice I thafsome'iing was generally missing’ from ch counter ut-’wh eh she stopped.(though I.nev -r saw her take a thing b came convinced that she was a ifter.” I w inch > I iiAr., S’ie would

> up to a counter, la.- her box down, nd when she wo il l pick it u > something would be gone. S.ivs 1 to myself. ‘Fake box.’ Ho I w’:'lked over to th? lia-idke chief count-r, where she was in ting. r->ac le t forward and pieke 1 no the box. saving: *’ ‘Exc ise me in id un but I believe that this isiavboc.’ “Now. if I ha I -i:i 1 » a mis'ake, I knew that she w >uld simple explain that it was herpicc ife. but instead she made a wil I clutch for t and out rolled a package of goo I lin >n handkerchiefs. Her nlm was to c w.-.-r the article she wanted with the box. which had a false bort >u. an I then draw t siowly towar I the edge of the counter. Then she wo il I price her hand under it to hide the stolen article away.”