Miss Pollock Buys $30 Hat in Wilmette

Miss Hazel Pollock, alias Helen Pollock, who has been arrested by the Chicago police following a number of jewel robberies in different places, did not pass Wilmette up. The former young co-ed worked successfully here but did not procure any precious jewels. Instead she got a perfectly good $30 leghorn hat from Miss L. C. Rambo, the Wilmette avenue milliner.
But Miss Rambo has recovered the high priced hat and is not loser by the experience. The last of the week she went to Chicago, where she found the hat at the Hyde Park Police station where Miss Pollock is incarcerated.

Works Credit Game
By a clever ruse, Miss Pollock procured the costly hat. She pretended that she had forgotten her check book when she called for the hat and after giving the best of refrences and even going so far as to show that she was accredited by the Wilmette Woman's club, a false statement, it is said, the Wilmette milliner allowed the hat to leave her shop. A few days later Miss Pollock was arrested by the Chicago police charged with numerous other robberies and confidence game schemes.

Designs own hat
That Miss Pollock has stylish ideas, is attested by the fact that she designed the piece of head gear in a good manner. She seleccted a pretty shaped leghorn hat out of the local milliner's stock and then ordered it trimmed with orchids and other costly trimmings. A few days later when she called for the finished hat she was much vexed. She had left her home without bringing her check book along. However she was prepared for such an emergency and by some move procured a blank form from a local drug store stating that she was OK'd by the local Women's club. She also gave Miss Rambo excellent references of a Kenilworth family with whom she said she formerly made her home. That was the last the local milliner ever saw of the hat until she recovered it at the Hyde Park police station.
Miss Pollock did not try to hide her identity. She gave her correct name, which is responsible for Miss Rambo recovering the expensive leghorn bonnet. She was stylishly dressed when the purchase was made and had every appearance of being a young woman of refinement.
Miss Rambo experienced considerable difficulty in getting back the hat at the Chicago police station. She is not favorably impressed, she says, with the methods in which the city police attend to business.