"I'm Not Afraid!"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 68, 11 July 1914, Page 5

"I'm Not Afraid!"

LONDON LADY DETECTIVE. "PUTTING 2 AND 2 TOGETHER." There is a lady detective in Ixmdon, a prutty girl with heautiful hair, and a charming smile, who has nevertheless become the bane of the existence of the evil doer. She is the daughter of a lawyer, and the sister of lawyers, and to her early training she attributes her faculty of "putting two and two together." So successful has she proved, that she has now her own office, and employs a staff, of 12, seven men and five women. Her den, suggests a dainty boudoir, rather than a sleuth's office. She is just seven and twenty, with a record that is envied far and wide among her male rivals. She has a good fellow manner, and her very clothes suggest the woman of leisure rather than the keen policeman. But she is a keen observer, and has laid her plans beautifully. "You are alone," said an interviewer recently to her. "Suppose that I made a spring at you " The lady at this moment tapped the wall twice with the pencil she held, and there bounced into the room a man of such ample proportions, and of such' pugilistic mien that the interviewer realised that he had been "a long way behind time." A moment later she said, "I get some pretty nasty experiences, but" —and a business-like pistol appeared apparently from nowhere, and a moment later disappeared by the sam« route—"l'm not afraid." She was on that occasion out upon the greatest mystery of the year, and had every hopes of bringing the wrongdoer to justice.

Her lovely gold hair nothwithstanding, she is an expert at making up as a young man, ,and disgui&ed as a "knut" recently stayed a week at a London hotel, drinking nightly with the boys, and helping them to paint the town red. Her other favor it* disguises are a • Salvation lassie (im which dress she stood for three w«ek« every night outside a popular theatre in London recently), a palmist, a waitress, a railway ticket collector, a club commissionaire, and she has put in several terms as a domestic servant.

On one occasion she impersonated the wife of a man who had a suite of rooms at a Paris hotel, and promptly got his wife into her clutches, with. the result that the "pair made a full confession." "In fact," says Basel Tozer in the London "Daily Mail," "she is the smartest thing outsid* Scotland Yard." •