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Updated: June 14, 2025
And she is at her busiest just now with the season's shopping in full swing. It's the price the stores have to pay for displaying their goods, but we have to do it, and we are at the mercy of the thieves. I don't mean by that the occasional shoplifter who, when she gets caught, confesses, cries, pleads, and begs to return the stolen article. They often get off.
There's Major , says she, 'he was an eminent pickpocket; there's Justice Ba r, was a shoplifter, and both of them were burnt in the hand; and I could name you several such as they are. We had frequent discourses of this kind, and abundance of instances she gave me of the like.
"I've been following you," she said. "By this time the other store detectives must have caught the shoplifter and bag-opener who touched you. You see, we don't make any arrests in the store if we can help it, because we don't like to make a scene. It's bad for business.
You used to be pretty slick in department stores, Mame " "Smoothest shoplifter in New York until I got palsy!" she interrupted proudly, an unaccustomed glow on her sallow face. "I'll do it, Wally; I know I can!"
A man perceiving me running, and others, without their hats, following, with the cries of "Stop thief," put out his leg, and I fell on the pavement, the blood rushing in torrents from my nose. I was seized, roughly handled, and again handed over to the police, who carried me before the same magistrate in Marlborough Street. "What is this?" demanded the magistrate. "A shoplifter, your worship."
The Dowager Empress had shown her some little things of hers. Pet things hidden away. Susan went straight for them used to take an umbrella for the silks. Born shoplifter." It was evident he didn't want his dinner spoilt, and we played up loyally. "This is recorded history," said Wilkins, "practically. It makes one wonder about unrecorded history. In India, for example." But nobody touched that.
No one said anything, as he raised his hands from his habitual thinking posture with finger-tips together, placed both hands back of his head, and leaned back facing us squarely. "The first step," he said slowly, "must be to arrange a 'plant. As nearly as I can make out the shoplifters or shoplifter, whichever it may prove to be, have no hint that any one is watching them yet.
She may be Margery Anderson now, but the one I'm after is Sal Jordan, better known as 'Light Fingered Sal', the slickest pickpocket and shoplifter between New York and San Francisco." We all stared at him open-mouthed. "Oh, you may have forgotten about it," he said sarcastically, "but I'll refresh your memory." He was speaking to Margery now.
"A shoplifter rarely becomes a habitual criminal until after she passes the age of twenty-five. If they pass that age without quitting, there is little hope of their getting right again, as you see. For by that time they have long since begun to consort with thieves of the other sex."
"Ain't I mean, wasn't you Miss Lovering?" muttered Anderson Crow. "Good heavens, no!" cried Miss Banks. "Who is she a shoplifter?" "I'll tell you the story, Mr. Crow, if you'll come with me," said Mr. Farnsworth, stepping forward with a wink. In the library he told the Tinkletown posse that Tom Reddon had met Miss Banks while she was at school in New York.
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