Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-06
A FEMALE DETECTIVE.
The Only One In the South. and \ We
Charming Young Parsan

The Only One I'm the South. and q very,
Charming Young Person.
Luvena Eabry is one Of the notable char
acters OF Atlanta, ia, says the New York
Sun.
Luvena is q fiaxen-haired, cherry-ipped
girl Of twenty five, with form like Hebe
She enjoys the distinction of being the
only female detective in the South, and
has history that is as romantic as it has
been adventurous. Her father lived in Har-
alison County, where he was dealer in
moonshine whisky. One day Deputy-Mar-
shal Mark Scott appeared on the scene for
the purpose Of arrssting the old man, but
found the daughter instead. She gave him
such tonguelashing as he had never re-
ceived before. She was brought to Attain
IA prisoner, where she met United States
Marshal Nelms, who saw at once that she
would make good detective "I could
strike still-house like hound pup does
slop," she said.
The most notable case in which she was
engaged was that Of Jim Mccoy. Jim had
murdered Deputy Marshal Kellett and a
companion. The murder was peculiarly
brutal In . rencontre ten years before
Kellett had wounded Mccoy. Mccoy ex-
tracted the bullet and kept it for ten years,
when he sent it whizzing through Kellett's
heart. As all the mountain people were
his friends it was found impossible to spot
him. There was neighbor with whose
daughter Mccoy had illicit relations, and
with her Miss Luvena was intimate. She
went there on q visit, and when she was
shown into her room she quietly slipped
out OF the window and into her friends
room, where she secreted herself under the
bed. About midnight Mccoy entered and
spent the night Before leaving he made an
engagement to return next night
Miss Luvena watched the first oppor-
tunity to slip out and into her own room.
A few minutes later she appeared at the
breakfast table as though nothing had hap
pened. She returned to Atlanta in time to
give warning, and that night the officers ar
rested Mccoy at the appointed place.
In order to carry out her schemes Miss
Luvena appears ahead as a "fy'' young
lady, and thus makes friends She then
gives the points away to officers, appearing
with them herself in a male garh, so unlike
herself that those who know her could not
detect her.
On another occasion she had to spot an
Illicit distiller in Randolph County, Ala.
She learned that the moonshiner had a
comely daughter. Miss Luyena therefore.
attired as handsome male book-peddler.
presented herself at the moonshiner's
house. The stranger was all smiles for the
young girl, and soon began making love
Next day the affair had progressed far
enough for the girl to take the stranger
completely into her confidence, and she
pointed out the still-house That night the
establishment was raided, and the girl has
never since heard from her lover,
SIN one of my trips into Cherokee, Ga. -
she said, 81 made quite a mash on sweet
young lady, and am now engaged to mar
ry her. She sends me the sweetest letters :
You ought to see them l had to play the
part OF man up there, and I went in male
ature. This young girl took TO me at once,
ana 1 could not shake her of. So just
made love to her after the most approved
style. We have been corresponding reg
ularly. My greatest difficulty with her ia
having the dates for marriage postponed.
She Is a sweet young thing, and 1 hate to
break the Illusion in which she is so happy.n