The False Alarm at the Tacoma Regatta

Two young Seattle girls who had been at Tacoma since Saturday attending the regatta were arrested upon their return on the Potter yesterday morning on a charge of petty larceny. The arrest was made by Sheriff McGraw upon the strength of a dispatch from a G. Stewart of Tacoma, intimating that two girls named Mamie and Mayrie were on the Potter with a valise containing stolen goods. The girls, on arriving at the sheriff's office, gave their names as Marorie Quinn and Maggie McClellan and indignantly denied having committed any crime or being in possession of stolen goods. Sheriff McGraw telegraphed to G. Stewart that he had the girls under arrest and wanted to know what to do with them. Soon afterward, he received a dispatch from G. Stewart saying that if the girls would return the stolen clothing they had in a valise, they would not be prosecuted. On examination, the valise was found to contain nothing but a robe and a few toilet articles which were not worth the stealing. As Sheriff McGraw had no idea who G. Stewart was, and as he failed to appear, he discharged the girls, who seemed to consider the whole affair in the light of a joke and creditable to themselves rather than otherwise.