Veiled Hotel Thief.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 March 1910, Page 4

Veiled Hotel Thief.

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A mysterious lady thief who has chosen the fashionable hotels as the field ot her operations is causing intense chagrin to the New \o ; rk police by the ingenuity with whicn she catches them in their own traps. Though detectives are specially engaged to parade the corridors and reception-rooms to prevent the continuance of a biillliiig series at .thefts, their .appearance has invariably been followed by the unaccountable disappearance of somo valuable piece of bric-a-brac or costly jewellery. ' The lady's latest feat is the seizure of a Louis XV. clock, which she carried away unobserved from t)K> dining-room'of the Hotel Jhicking''lVo days ago (said the "Daily Mail's" New York correspondent recently) a lady visitor at an hotel whs seated .at a writing-table when a fashionably-dressed woman, heavily veiled/ took possession' of a chair opposite. A few moments "later a, pocket-book containing £20 was missing from the table, and tlu stranger was nowhere to be seen. To-day the hotel manager received a packet by post. It was the empty pocket-book, accompanied by the following note: — "I love pretty clothes and jewellery. I stole this purse because I eoiikl not content myself with comparing the condition between mysell and the richly-gowned woman to whom it belonged. I must struggle yet she has everything. I return the purse, however." A series ot robberies from tasliionable flats is attributed to the same woman.