Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — Girl Thief Now in Asylum. [ARTICLE]

Girl Thief Now in Asylum.

Mabel Burt, the self-confessed thief of Smith College, Bridgeton, N. J., has been placed by her father in an asylum at Frankford, Pa t The girl’s physician today described her affection as one in which she was utterly unable to control herself when seized with the desire for something which was not hers. There was to her an exhilaration about theft and the concealment of it which led her on. Mr. Burt says in a few days he will have a statement. Until that time he asks th* public to suspend Judgment.