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The Weekly Expositor
Brockway Centre, MI
October 20, 1893

        Society Women as Burglars.
        MRS. ALICE CHURCH and daughter BESSIE were taken to Adrian from
     Tecumseh and placed in the jail charged with burglarizing Editor
     STACEY's residence at Tecumseh. They rigged themselves out in
     masculine garments, went to the house, got in through the window and
     collected spoils which ranged in variety from feather beds to canned
     fruit. When they left they took a key with them, intending to return
     again. The robbery was discovered and watchers were stationed inside
     the house that night to capture the burglars if they showed up, but
     they were not to be caught without a desperate struggle. MRS. CHURCH
     was armed with an insect power sprayer filled with cayenne pepper and
     she nearly blinded one of the officers. The women were bound over to
     the circuit court for trial. MRS. CHURCH and her daughter have borne a
     good reputation in the community heretofore, have been good church
     members and have moved in the best of society. Sneak thieves have been
     doing numerous jobs about the village during the past two months, but
     the officers believe they now have the guilty party. BESSIE was a typo
     in the Herald office.

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