The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year   Number 8
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 30, 1904

SHOP-LIFTERS CAUGHT.

     Friday was a busy day for two shop-lifters in Marlin. The offending parties were two negro women of doubtful reputations.
     There were some fancy drop stitch hose and other articles of fancy attire at Hodges Dry Goods Company that attracted their attention and they were at once seized with the desire to come into possession of same without putting up the coin to pay for them.
     While they thought no one was on the watch, they slipped a few of the coveted articles into a recess provided, no doubt, for the purpose. But the ever vigilant eye of an attache or the store was on them and they were commanded to "heave to" and they hove.
     They were placed under arrest by City Marshal Coleman and turned over to the county authorities. Their bonds were fixed at $100 each. The names of the offenders are Rosa Conoly and Olla Lard.
     The city marshal also caught one Willis Smith whom he had been wanting for some time on a charge of stealing a belt from Nettles & Holloway.  He was placed in the county bastile to reflect at his leisure en his offending.

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