The times., 1897-05-16

/ 1t develops that the pretty young woman
| in black who has been promiscuousIy pass
| ing counterfeit quarters on street car con.
| ductors, as told in yesterday morning
! capture by the police Friday afternoon.
The first intimadon Inspector Holm
| berger had OF the woman's whereabouts
| was when young man, who had been
| following her about on his bicycle. called
| az police headquarters and Informed hin
| that tire female counterfeit shower was
| DIT the city postoffice.
defective Sergt. johnson at once went
| to the postoffiee with the wheeiman, but
upon arriving there he found that she had
gone over To Ninth street and boarded an
electric Car.
The sergeant at once started the wheel
man after the car, while he, with supt
dendrier, of the Metropolitan road, took
another car and proceeded TO the wharf,
believing that the woman might take
ferryboat for Alexandria. In this, how
ever, they were mistaken.
The wheelman overlook the car and m
formed the conductor the woman was a
coumterfeiter. He also requested him not
to allow her 10 leave the car, but carry
her to the company's office, at the foot
OF Four and-a-half street Accordingly
when she touched the electric button to
stop the train point in South Washing
ton the con ductor bluntly said:
.'you can't get off, miss this is a through
train and don't make any stops"
The woman was accordingly taken to the
company's office and interrogated She
proved to be plausible talker and was al
lowed to depart. Had the railroad au-
therities at that time sent for the police
the dangerous woman, who has proved TO
be as elusive as flea, would have been
behind the bars instead of wandering
around seemingly at her own sweet VIII.
The railroad officials, however. instructed
the man on the bicycle to follow the car
the woman had boarded in the meantime.
The conductor was ordered also to turn her
over TO the first policeman he saw. When
the Sixth street depot was reached the
conductor stopped his train and requested
Policeman Lamb, who is stationed there, to
arrest the woman. That officer replied that
there was q patrolman stationed at the
Ninth and F streets junction, and suggested
that she be turned over to him.
The woman, however, alighted from the
car when it made it's regular stop at Penn
sylvania and Ninth street and escaped in
the throngs on that theroughfarc.
The wheelman kept the counterfeiter in
sight and followed her TO the Baltimore
and Ohio depot. She had by that time Cen
cluded that matters We're becoming entirely
too warm for her here, and decided to
leave the city forthwith While she was
purchasing a ticket for Baltimore the BIZ
cycle spotter approached Policeman Har-
low, who is stationed at the depot. 9nd
informed him that the woman was a cotin-
terfeiter, requesting him to place her tn
der arrest.
The respectable appearance OF the woman
perhaps awed the officer, for he declined
to arrest her without orders from his sr-
perior officers or n warrant He could not,
he added, take the woman Into custody on
the mere say so of a stranger
In the meantime the woman had purchas-
ed her ticket and boarded the Baitiniorc
train, much to the chagrin OF the amateur
bicycle detective
The police have learned that the woman
passed fully 100 counterfeit quarters in
this city, principally on the street car
ines All the information In the pos
session oil Inspector Holiinberger has been