A WOMAN’S WIT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1783, 30 August 1888, Page 2

A WOMAN’S WIT.

Alice Woodhall (says an English paper of July 1), who was recently arrested at Bromwich and taken on an extradition warrant to the United States by Inspector Turnbridge, of Scotland Yard, is now back again in England. She managed to get out of New York in a very clever manner without exciting the suspicions of the detectives who were shadowing her. The charge against her of forging John Gill’s name to the transfer of United States bonds was dismissed by Judge Gildersleeve, but there was another charge against her. She therefore disguised herself in a mourning costume, with blue spectacles, and took a train to Montreal. There she put up at an out-of-the-way hotel, and at night boarded a tug which runs down the St. Lawrence river, and connects at Quebec with the Allen line steamer for Glasgow. To make sure of eluding the detectives she engaged a woman to dress in the clothing she had worn in court. This woman went to Philadelphia, and purchased a passage to England ; and the detectives, while watching this fictitious Alice, allowed Mrs Simon Pure to get safely away. On Monday evening at a late hour Alice arrived at her mother’s home in Wednesbury, from America, and a crowd of friends were ready to welcome her. On Tuesday her mother’s bouse was decorated with flags, and in the evening bands were playing and bells ringing and feet dancing. Colored lights and fireworks were burned in profusion from the housetop,