Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — STOLE TO GRATIFY THEIR VANITY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STOLE TO GRATIFY THEIR VANITY

Two Girls Who Have Brought Disgrace Upon Their Family. Georgiana and Florence Brock, aged respectively 20 and 12, are the extremely handsome and Innoceut-appeariug daughters of Henry Brock, the head of a New York commercial agency. They have been arrested for stealing $4,000 worth of

gowns and laees froiju the handsome row of houses in which the Brocks live in New York. The roofs of the fourth floors down the whole row are joined, so it was an easy matter for the two sisters to enter the windows of any house in the row. The case is most' remarkable on account of the prominence of the family, and the fact that It was not necessary for the girls to steal to replenish their wardrobe. The parents are heartbroken over the affair. The friends of the family say it was only a girlish freak, but the police claim that the girls are skilled thieves,and lied brazenly when confronted with the evidence of their guilt.

GEORGIE BROCK. FLORENCE BROCK.