Show e WOMAN AS A DETECTIVE I A GALLING CALLING IN WHICH SHE IS 18 PALPABLY I II r INFERIOR TO MAN I I iT 11 ES ESSI S J I suppose Its a matter of at ati y i 1 temperament said salda saida a woman detective There are born de detectives detectives detectives as thre thare are born poets and prime Drime ministers Ive been In the work for twenty years now and be happy In any other We women have hav to be awfully hard bard hearted sometimes if were loyal to our clients and our captain One great trouble with women is Js they get so in In their case what we ve call the Individual were after for the minute that they simply cant follow the thief thle to the ilie bitter end and they give a tip tit that lets them out Some Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes times too women sell out Our agen agency agency agency cy employs more women than any other In New York or even out of it probably and our experience Is that women as a class the same business sense or business loyalty as men in this work Yet Tet we have now in our employ omen who are between 50 60 and 60 years of age and have been with us all their lives or at least since they were 25 Women are rarely em employed employed as detectives under that age And few almost none of them take it U up as a definite profession as they do sewing or teaching or typewriting for instance They fall into it practically Circumstances draw them into It and then thep if they have natural aptitude for forIt forIt forIt It they stay because beca se there really Is Ismore ismore more moie money to be made in it than in inan anything an thing else that a woman can take up Women come to us almost daily dally who are sure su they would make good detec detectives detectives detectives tives in reality they are after the thesa salary sa and the th perquisites but as I Isaid IsaId IsaId said there thera Is scarcely one in a hun bun hundred dred drad who has the slightest aptitude for forthe forthe forthe the work I No uNo I give you a definite figure for tor the number of women de detectives employed in this city as it a u clear cut profession For Instance the great majority of women at this work are in department stores and similar places and ten to one they have grown right up in the business from cash girls and antI clerks They are fine for tor their especial line but they would vo ld make a failure on divorce or forgery cases eases for Instance Then we have women In our employ vho ho undertake only special lines of work summer hotels etc ete Some work for us at night and earn their livings In other ways We pay them only when ne We e use them and we dont consider them as really belonging to our force It is Js the woman who is always on tap who gets sent to one month and South Africa the next Oh yes Ive been to Cape Town A ANew ANew ANew New York womans husband died there I and left her nothing and naturally she he wanted to know why Yes Ive been to Europe several times But perhaps the funniest transAtlantic trip was the theone theone theone one I take An old man rushed into our office one Friday morning threw down In bills as retainer and wanted some one who could take passage on a steamer sail sailIng sailIng Ing the next day He said he be want to give any particulars then but would call early the next morning We never ne er saw him for two weeks Then he lie rushed In again with another and said he be t want to give his name but I 1 must be down at a certain certain tain fain pier the next day and he would then give me all the details with let letters letters letters of credit etc ate Well Wen I waited there all day but he never appeared The next week he sent a messenger with wi h still another er and the same message For eight weeks that thing was as kept up just as regularly as Fri Friday Friday Friday day came around round and every Saturday some pome one was sent to the pier In case the old man should show up Then we weh happened h to notice the reported de derangement and death of an old sea captain and the description seemed to tofit tofit fit our client so I looked It up It proved to Ita be the same and his widow has never ceased to be grateful for the return of the money mon We kept of course only enough to cover the days dayse we e spent on the work She often comes omes In In to s se see e us and never forgets me at Christmas She of course had no idea where the money had gone as her hus bus husband husband band never nover spoke of his little detective Interests at home Yes circumstances led me to take up the profession I had to look after an inheritance for myself before I was 20 I was left an orphan and some of ot the family tried to seize sele my shar share The he lawyers employed on my side got me meto meto meto to look l ok up a good many of the details as I could do It without suspicion su and after the case was settled they retained me for a time In their employ I think I must know the history of every prom prominent prominent mont divorce case that has occurred in th tast stten ten or fifteen years Ive Iye been Mrs and Miss and even Mr morn more times than I can remember Ive been on n the stage and have tray trav traveled tra with a magician Ive rye played long lost daughter poor re relation relation lation fiancee and even spirit medium 7 to gain my ends and win the success of at my ease cass cas Ie rye literally been all aU things to all men When I took the character of a medium I was employed to separate two people who were al already already ready married to others but bat who were evidently becoming infatuated with I each other The mother of or the man em employed me He had lately lost a very dear friend frend and the woman with whom he was w is in love a daughter I followed them for some time and ascertained that both were vere nearIng what would wo ld mean ruin ru n for tor Or their respective families and anI I inserted my advertisement as Us a medium Iri local paper and the mans mother muther my employer for the Alom nt adroitly drew his attention I to it and announced her Intention of going to see me inc At last they all de decided decided decided to td go together and you may know that th t I gays gava them good advice from their dear departed warning them of dire disaster if they disobeyed They never saw s w each other again and the theman theman man soon left the country Then I lived fort for some time in a a family where costly trinkets laces and wines were steadily missed There I posed as a poor PoD relation abused by hy hymy my rich connections and forced to find some companionship with the maids By degrees I got gotto to know them all well visited their homes and their friends with them and soon discovered that the thefts could not be traced to any of them Then I pretended preten ed to become became infatuated with the son of the family I got him to take me sue out and to spend some time in my rooms About this time a 3 valuable stickpin disappeared and I suddenly charged him with It telling him at the same samp time who I was He confessed and everything but the wine was eventually recovered from a popular actress In town The case tooK more than six months No I cant map out action in a case as a lawyer does for we have to work on suspicions only 1 simply feel my way step by step Often if I give them time enough my cases work them themselves themselves themselves selves out Its not easy work from my y point of at view vi w One has to sink all personal person l interest and even If one is isHI HI UJ one must never let et a point in the evidence slip sUp I remember one breach of promise casein case In which I had to t stand four or five hours at a time with my eye ei on a certain crack ciack II I was sick enough to be in bed and you can im hit imagine Imagine agine gine what the ordeal al meant I Once I was w s two years in England getting acquainted with certain per persons perSons sons whose signatures were needed In Inan Inan inan an important will case Each one had to be approached in Ina a different way to avoid suspicion I was housekeeper in inthe inthe inthe the home borne of one typewriter to another Infatuated autograph aut graph collector desti dest destitute destitute tute daughter of ot a dead sailor friend and I dont know what else until I had secured the whole collection Ive been In jail for that was very exciting but we won our point and got the child back to her rightful guardian again Once I was a wealthy Cana Canadian Canadian Canadian dian traveling with maid and secre secretary secretary secretary tary It was a case in which I had bad to have witnesses My unsubstantiated word would not have answered But neither of these people knew that they th y were to be so used us d They were with me a year cognizant of all the facts and when the evidence was needed were subpoenaed Independently and dont know to this day that they in my personal employ This case is not yet concluded c and I 1 was given by my client just to keep the facts from the public so I cannot give any details de falls Oh yes the perquisites are very good jewels money gifts and kind kindnesses kindnesses kindnesses nesses of all sorts And I like the work vork you see all sorts of human na ture hire Women are the funniest Some of our women clients come and say Now here are the circumstances and this Is the way I want you to work the i case We turn them down at once They think they know more about our j business than we do Women dont often otten dispute a bill We give them i our terms and they pay them before b fore foree wo We e hand over our information Uon A re report report report port of each days work Is made every night one copy sent to our client with expense slip sUp and one filed We keep all aU records and duplicates can be had h d dat at any time Special qualifications for detective work Oh Ob I dont know a peculiar genius for minding other peo pee peoples peoples ples pies business I think Is the first and principal requisite New York Trib Tribune une |