The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-07
THEIR HEARTS TOO SOFT,
Some Reasons Why Female Detec-
tiyes Are not Successful in
the Business.
They Are Good Useful Persons in
Working Up Divorce
Cases.
But Are Too Easily Misled by Their Sym
E- -.& F ~H - \
Isut Arc Too Easily Misled by Their Sym
pathics and Their Prejudfces-Value
as Tavcsdroppers.

pathics and Their Prejudfces-Valne
as Tsavcsdroppers
.,yyomen are not useful in our busineBs,"
said q we'll known city detective to q san
Francisco Chronicle reporter. "Our line
Of work is mainly that OF detecting crime
and of hunting criminals, and IN TINS
vamen could mako little or no headway.
There are many places whore \ woman san-
not go without exciting suspicion, and, al
criminals are generally ON the alert, they
would at once have the advantage. But .
nan can 60 anywhere unobserved, ana,
sven if no il a we'll known detective, no
could be so disguised so "a to attract no at
tention to himself, oven in the most noted
criminal resorts; bat = woman could not
visit these places. Besides, it would be
personally unsafe and she would 20 SUP
ieoted to many inconvenisnces and insults.
VS. have ne use for them IN our depart
ment, A woman could be of service as a
detective by boarding or roomlnR AZ =
houss and keeping track Of . man or woman
who wan suspected of . crime. but tner'
va sccomplish the same thing by having
onr men shadow them from the outside. So
there il no advantage whatever in employ
ING a woman as a detective. On the con-
trarv there is no use for them on the fegn-
lar force concluded the experienced OH
Ger.
INV experience with female detectives is
that they are a failure,'' said another do
~tectiye rather emphatically. Ia the hrst
plaoe they ara rot as psrsevering as men
unless they ara actuatsd BY motives q re-
venga Or Jealousy, and in those eases .
woman will psrsavers till she drops dead -
order To accomplish her object. she Wlli
do more for revenge than she will tor love.
Az a general thing women are untrnst-
worthy, thas is, those engaged IN thls line
of work. They are led BY their passions
preiudices and sympnthiss, and leok al
case az they want it to be. net M + 10. lhey
work On a case frona intuition and nos from
settled plans Of reasoning based on iacts
before them, They are good at ~sntrapp1nE
man. but invariably wind up with All
awful blundar which betrays thsn.
..Woman loves the mysterious" sald the
learned Hswkshaw, branching of into
raysticism, .and she is so slated at her So
cret power that che is unable TO Keep IL
sarrat. and everybody soon knows that she
i u datectiye. There ia a fascination about
crinae-it exercises q strange influence over
sone psoplc-and from the study Of crime
ard criminals and their natural assocla-
tons many persons unwltt1ngly dflft INTO
a criminal life, especially women, who are
led a,tray by the 7, ys.s tho no on ns, .,m,s -
thizes with 4 r~cd-handed murderer, sends
him hououets. and even lntsrcedes for MIN
at the foot Of tina galloWss1
The reporter did not know.
"Neither does the woman, continued the
moralizing detective. The woman forgats
the victim who was murdered, And seeks TO
alleviate the pain Of the felon by her ncls-
rlnced syrpathies. The detective business,
however. il one that | should not advise
women to adopt. There are frequent tempt
atiops that Il woman is less llaela to with
stand than q man. For instance, r female
criminal would uss ali the %artlnees common
to her sex, and 30 ply upon the female de-
tectiys's feelings as to be pc Eitted to es-
cane. Or take some handsome. dashlng
yeung man just blo1so:nlng out IS q Big
amist or fosger. He would aoon appear to
her as q hero much ~nlallgnsd and falsely
accused. And again, woman, khowlng her
practical Immunity from punishment,
would be more lenieut in ouch cases than a
man would. II cornered q woman cries,
and tho Judge or Jury would aeqult her of
criminal negligence. Bus the man might
CIV his eyes out, and tho law would hold
him r~asponsible for tho escape OF the Grim
inal.'
.sAfe women q success as detectives in
sterea or Or the street carr" asked the re-
porter.
No, they are n detgiment!' replied the
reader of human natu a. THAT is what
might be called 'spotting.' and, Of course,
is not frst- class work. The wouaan who do
the sporting in stores are thoroughly
hated by tbs customers and are rot re
d cted by the other employees. AS a gen.
eral thing these spoilers spot themselves by
trying to be too smart ana thus lose a great
deal of custom to the store. With frowning
face and contracted eyebrow tho self-styled
fomals detective looks in every direction,
gazing ut every one entering the store as if
he or she were a thief. The st aags look at
once attracts the attention of tho custom
ers, many of whom leave the store, ana, ifa
shoplifter, ls at once placed on her guard.
Sons o. these detectives Or spoilers have q
way of entrapplng women into committing
petit larceny, in order to gain favor with
their employers ns smart detectives. For
examples: They will be ask to be shown
GONE goods, as if intending to purchase,
and when the articles are completely spread
upon the counter they will turn round as
if to look at something else, so as to
give some woman an opportunity to 'lift'
some OF the articles. This tempting OPP
portunity is often too great for many to
Withstand, and the designing femals de-
teGtive earns her small salary by laying q
trap for the disgrace Of N peer woman
better than herself. 1t 10 the duty of an
officer of the lay to prevent crime and not
to encourage its commission in order to
detect it. This trap laying is unprofes-
sional; it is criminal. There is enough
crime without encouraging its commission.
This is smother reason why women are not
q success as detectives. About the only
thing in this line whore they can be- bene-
fetal is in spying out evidence for divorce
cases, and that is not exactly detective
work." concluded this contemner of femin-
ine capacity in the detective line.
'Of course, no respectable woman would
engage III vosk like that, involving as il
does. key-hols teeping, e~avesdropp:ng and
all sorts of disreputable practices. Blu,
still there arc females who fairly gloat ever
the betrayal Of those whom they have been
hired to spy upon, and toward whom they
make the most Judas-lihe protestationH OF
affection In order to win their confidence
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