SHOPLIFTING COMEDY.
New Yohk, May 21.-The elements of comedy and tragedy were curiously mixed in tiie exposure to-day in the Bronx borough of a clever shoplifting scheme. The thieves were three girls, aged respectively fourteen and thirteen years and seven months. The youngest of the trio was borrowed with a baby carriage for the occasion from a neighbour. She was trundled up and down in front of a shop by one of the older girls. The other one, as she collected articles from the counters, came out to the perambulator and tucked them away under the baby's feet. The game had been :in operation about a week.
But yesterday the baby, whose presence contributed so greatly to the scheme's success, unconsciously brought exposure. Finding the pile beneath her feet growing uncomfortably large, she began throwing the articles on to the pavement. This attract--d a policeman's attention, and arrest followed, v --t. / ■;■-:%.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13483, 6 July 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)
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