The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-03
EEMALE SHADOW TALKS.
han who Does Private Detectiv,
Nprk on Very Quiet Gases.

man Oh TdbuSl ALkO 0u1l0 A1Au VI
mien is a familiar object to the resi-
/ of the neighborhood as she daily leaves
heat and modest little fat or comes home.
lis about so years of age and her hair,
he'd down over her forehead in the style
bur grandmothers, is white. She has a
of keen, steel-gray eyes, and her face is
Ether pleasant one. Altogether she looks
a staid, solid, elderly matron, upon
Rom the cares of life sit rather lightly.
Nv people would suspect that the motherly
King lady belonged to that class known
nriyate detectives, but such she is, and
fieer calling in the leading cities of the
Last and West.
'I could tell you great many strange
fbings that | have seem" she said to re-
Eorter who called on her, land many Of
Them YOU would hardly print. Private de-
Eectives constitute one of the necessary
wheels in the great machine called society,
although their ways are sinuous and dark
1 and the methods such as many good people
| would not approve"
/ "Are there many female detectives"
'There is always work for women in the
detectiye business but there are few who
make business of it. Women aye very
useful in some classes of cases and, indeed,
there are few cases in which lady who has
real detective ability cannot be useful in
working up evidence. In many cases, par
ticularly divorces, they can obtain informa-
tiOn which men could not get, and do it very
easily. Matrimonial troubles furnish the
greater portion of the work which comes to
private detectives When a woman wants
TO secure evidence against her husband a
man is generally set to watch his move
nents, where he goes, whom he meets and,
in fact, all his movements. A man can
shadow a male suspect better, generally,
than woman can. But suppose husband
suspects his wife and wants her watched. A
woman can do it very successfully and with
out alarming the suspected party many
times. | have hired out as a domestic Just
TO get into house and see what took place
there and who called in the absence of the
husband For the same purpose | have
acted as strolling fortune-teller and as a
book agent and a peddler of patterns. No
body knows how many cases there are of
domestic misery, and how much deception
and wickedness there is in the world, and
generally in what is called the fashionable
world. There are great many divorce
cases reported in the papers, but there are
a great many more of which the world
never hears.
II have not been in Chicago very long
but had a queer case not long ago. | re-
ceived note one day by mail, asking me
TO c5ll on the writer at a certain number on
Curtis street. found a middle-aged lady,
elegantly dressed and of apparent refine
ment She was the wife of a professional
gentleman who has an Office in a downtown
theater building. | said she was his wife,
and so she was to all intents and purposes.
she said that ten years ago she met her sup
posed husband in st. Louis. when she was
a widow and had lived with him then for
several years. Then he brought her to Chi
-.
vile He installed her in an elegant home
On the west side and, as l learned afterward
she had mixed in very good society there
associating with some of the best people, for
Size was stylish and had ladylike ways. She
told me, while the tears rained down her
face, that he had ceased to love her and had
become infatuated with young woman, an
artist, who had a studio in the same theateI
building in which he was located. This
young woman, she said, was married, but
was separated from her husband, who is
now in st. Paul The infatuated man
whose love was reciprocated by the artist,
was determined to marry her and had in.
duced her to apply for divorce from her
husband. The wife, for such / will call her
begged me to prevent the intended marriage
desperate the two if possible, and agreed
t. undertake the job. Learning as much as
l could about the young artist left the
grlef-strCken woman.
Then vent to see the artist in her studio.
found her to be what | would call an at
tractive but not beautiful woman. Making
myself at home and talking about Der pic
lures, finally introduced myself as trance
medium and asked the privilege of telling
her fortune. She readily consented and
proceeded TO give her a history of her life.
She was astonished and as | went on her
wonder increased. When | described the
uyb ha in Iowa nd folJ
her of her intentions toward her husband
she became agitated, for she believed the
whole thing was supernatural. | left her,
taking good care to let her know where
lived.
st was only few days after that when,
as | expected, the professional gentleman
called to see me. He was curious to know
who | was and how / had read the thought
of his lady-love so correctly / told him
just what l had told this young woman
that | was medium, although despise the
tplritualstic fakirs, and drawing my chair
up in front of him / gave him history OF
his life. | told him when, how and where
he had met his wife, all of which l had
learned from her, Of course. He became
excited. You are a devil he said, or an
angel Then / said In your wife's roou
hangs a little frame. 1t is a marriage Ger.
titicate but it is a blank. The names anG
.'''UO u VhO SOA OiAlOhJ HofO AOFSA DOOA
tied out
My Cod he exclaimed, as he jumped
TO his feet, how do you know that? The
mans face was gaastly and he was trem
bling. | made him sit down and went OF
Until reached the young artist He be
came excited again and never suspected
that | was playing a trick Oh him.
1 believe you are devil he exclaimed
as he paced theroom But tell me- he said
toryou must know, shall ! call her my own
VIII the other woman deg
SHE will outlive you,' l said in as tragic
tones as could command. He went away
times. | reasoned with him and tried to in
nuce him to apply for divorce from the
woman whom he once loved, make her al
allowance and set her right before the world
but he would not do it. He was too mucl
taken up with the other woman. In the
meantime the wife was after me all the time
Some spiritualists got hold Of her and made
her believe that if they had a lock of tile
young woman's hair they would work {
charm which would separate the HUSBAND
from her. She begged me to get the hail
ana got her a sample. 1t was not from
the artists head but it did her just as mucf
good. The poor woman was stricken witt
paralysis soon after and the husband shipped
her to her friends in st. Louis The artls
mas divorce suit pending and there the
matter stands at the present time.
In San Francisco some years ago worked
on queer case 1t was the Allen case, eel
eorated at the time, Mr.. Allen being Presi