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Show Bright English Gir Works in America as Amateur Detective New York, Aug. 24 Flora Iang-den. Iang-den. a quick-wltte, English girl of twenty summer? has been masquerading masquer-ading as a man here for several month, working successively a an amateur detective, a grocer boy and h waiter In a Broadway restaurant. With her hair closo-cropped and still dressed iu man's clothing sh ? Is now undr the care of u police matron at her own request. She will don worn-' ur.'s attire today nnd wllVbe tent back to her borne In England by tho next steamer. in Miss Langdn's capacity as an amateur detective she spent considerable consid-erable time In the Italian and Chinese Chi-nese quarters and came near getting a $5,000 reward for th-i finding of a kidnaped child. ; Three years ago she told a New York magistrate, she lett a comfortable comfort-able horne In London, and took f.i steamer to Boston, then coming directly di-rectly to New York. Her money vent quickly and before .she realized if. she was penniless. She was too proud to write home for aid and gn a place as a waitress. HJr experience experi-ence as a waitress w'as not pleasing nor prolltable and she derided to disguise dis-guise herself as a man. She went to a little store on the East Side and bought a complete outfit from shoes to straw hat. cut her owu hair an 1 Ptarted out to look for a Job as a man. Tho discovery - of her masquerado came about through the assignment of a headquarters detective to a minor min-or larceny case in un up-towu board-laghouse. board-laghouse. While searching for information in-formation -there he met Miss Lang-den, Lang-den, who was In man's clothing nn.l was introduced as a prhate detective. detec-tive. The headquarters man suspected suspect-ed the youth's 6ex from his appearance appear-ance and spoke his suspicions Thereupon There-upon the youth acknowledged that he was right and nked his advice as to how to change back to female clothes and avoid comment. Tho headquarters headquar-ters man advised hor to consult i magistrate. |