Two Girls Plead Guilty to Theft of Clothing
Item
- Title
- Two Girls Plead Guilty to Theft of Clothing
- Source
- Evening Star (DC)
- Date
- 1920-06-14
- page
- 2
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1920-06-14/ed-1/?sp=2&q=theft&r=0.628,0.028,0.454,0.164,0
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- theft; stolen clothing; neckpieces; shoes; kimono
- Gender of alleged offender
- female alleged offenders
- Gender of alleged victim
- male and female alleged victims
- Law enforcement involved
- police
- Stage of the Legal System
- arrest
- Location
- In-state; DC
- Length of story
- 151
- Description
- TWO GIRLS PLEAD GUILTY TO THEFT OF CLOTHING Alice Minsker and Grace Lillard, war workers, pleaded guilty today before Justice Gould In Criminal Division 1 to two indictments charging grand larceny. The young women are said to have visited local stores and to have kept a diary of things appropriated by them. Justice Gould, at the request of former Representative Lloyd of Missouri, who represented the girls, referred the matter to Probation Officer Steele for investigation. One of the indictments charges that May 13 last two fur neckpieces were stolen from the store of Stinemetz. One was valued at $150 and the other at $85. The next day, it is charged in the other indictment, a visit was paid to the store of Lansburgh & Bro. and a dress taken of the value of $10, three shirtwaists at $10.90 each, one pair of shoes worth $18.50 and a kimono worth $22.
