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|Detective Taczkowski's attention was first called to|
|Ewart in a downtown department store yesterday |
|afternoon, when Ewart tried to return a travelling |
|bag which he said his wife had bought for $10. |
|Investigation of the store's records showed Mrs. |
|Ewart had bought a bag for $3.95, but that the $10 |
|bag had been stolen. Ewart was put off on a |
|technicality and the detective followed him when he |
|left the store. Outside Ewart was met by his wife. |
|Into the subway Taczkowski shadowed them and at last|
|the trail led to the Bosch grocery on St. Nicholas |
|Avenue. |
| |
|In the store, Taczkowski kept his eyes on Mrs. |
|Ewart, in her modish gown and furs, while Ewart |
|engaged a clerk in conversation. Suddenly, |
|Taczkowski alleges, he saw an egg worth six cents |
|disappear from a crate into Mrs. Ewart's handsome |
|fur muff. Another egg followed, and another, he |
|says, until, like the children of the poem, they |
|were seven. When a box of figs followed the eggs, |
|Taczkowski says, he arrested the pair. |
| |
|A search of the Ewarts' apartment at No. 646 St. |
|Nicholas Avenue, the police say, revealed a great |
|quantity of men's and women's clothing of the finest|
|variety. Mrs. Ewart, the police say, admitted she |
|had stolen the blue fox furs from a downtown store |
|and the police expect to identify much of the |
|handsome clothing found in the apartment as stolen |
|goods. |
| |
|"We were hungry and had no money," Mrs. Ewart sobbed|
|at police headquarters. "We had all that clothing, |
|but not a cent to buy food. I am the one to blame, |
|for I encouraged my husband to steal." |
| |
|Ewart and his wife were arraigned in Yorkville Court|
|before Magistrate Harris to-day and were held in |
|$500 bail each for further examination.[47] |

[47] _New York Evening World_