A LADY POLICEMAN.
An American young lady who has been invading the province of Main has become a policeman, but an American lady has once before done public duty upon being elected a town marshal. But she was young, only nineteen, and had rot yet acquired the neccssa-y nerve, for upon being called for the first time to arrest a rowdy "drank," after one look at the culprit she retired to the' town hall and rca gned. The new recruit to the ranks of the American police is a Miss Helen Wilder, who wields the baton in Honolulu She did not become a member of the force in order to gain a living. Her father is one of the great sugar kings _ of the Pacific, and worth several millions of dollar?. It was her love of children and animals that prompted this pretty young gi r l_ s he is now only twenty-four—to seek the appointment. She is a mounted officer, wears on her soft felt hat the_ silver star, which is the badge of her calling, ar.d carries a revolver.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 December 1901, Page 4
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181A LADY POLICEMAN. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 December 1901, Page 4
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