The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-18

views They are also very trustworthy. But why shouldn't they be? They are literally paid for every job, and, in short, discretion is their meal ticket, as the expression goes. I do not think great deal of woman's ability for gene ral detective work, and yet many cases come up where should be puzzled if it were not for the shrewd assistance of a clever woman. Through women many arrests are made"
 Miss Doyle, the matron of the El- dridge street police station, comes in constant contact with women detectives employed in the shopping district near by and also with women who do gene ral detective work. She is gentle voiced, gentle-mannered, and a great student of human nature. Her views on the woman detective and her ability for the work are decided
 "A woman who does detective work loses all heart" she said emphatically I've been matron here six years and I've seen the woman detective in all her phases. Woman is too narrow minded to do detective work honestly and conscientiously. That isn't her fault, for it is our environment that has made us narrow-minded, and our sex should stay out of the detective busl- ness until we outgrow the effects of our former environment.
 Women detectives have no mercy on women. I've seen them bring shoplift- CTS in here, and our men would beg them to show mercy and they Wouldn't t. Where man detective shows mercy a woman is as hard as steel. She is in the business for the money, and her employment depends upon the game she bags, so she pounces down on profes- sionals and amateurs alike, showing mercy to none. I've seen women detec- tives responsible for situations in this station house that would wiring the heart of the hardest man, and I've seen tears in the eyes of the sergeant and officers. Last week detective arrested an Italian woman and her sister-in-law and brought them here. The woman had six-weeks-old baby in her arms and had been caught stealing pair of fifteen-cent mittens for it. Nothing was found on the sister-in-law, but she was locked up, too. All of us begged the detective to let the woman go, as the mother implored her to let her pay for the mittens, but she laughed at the idea, and said her business would go tc | smash if she gave way to sentiment Those women and that tiny baby would have been compelled to spend 9 l night in a cold cell had not we sent fol the woman's husband, barber, who happened to be well to do enough to Sc cure bail for her.
 l ''Just before Christmas detective | brought a lovely young girl in here fol l taking nineteen-cent belt. The gir had over six dollars, and begged to b, I allowed to pay for it six times over She admitted taking it, and said tn
 reason. she didn't pay for it was that, al she lived in Brooklyn. she didn't hav' time to await for her change, and sht l wanted 1t so much to wear the nex | day Sunday The poor thing wa I heartbroken, but the woman detectiv was not to be melted, and that chil, l had to stay locked up in a cell, hearini I the horrible language of outcast an, l drunken women until Monday.
 ''Women are not qualified to do de 1 tective work, because they haven't suf l ficient amount of discretion or discern l ment. If every woman detective in thi I city doing any line of detective worl
 had to pass few nights in the station | house cell she wouldn't be so anxious t l thrust others there I say, lock up pro fessional thieves and let the law talk its course with them, but show mere. to the weak ones who are tempted fo the first time They can be reformed
 but we must give them a show.
 This little girl mentioned was dain ty and refined and I'm sure she tool that belt thoughtlessly. She di
 wrong, and admitted it, and under suc circumstances any woman with wo mans heart would have let her go wit word of kindly advice. She told m 1 ali about herself except her name an address She and her brother both ha very good employment here in Ne1 | York and live with their parents i Brooklyn. Her father had to put up three hundred dollar bond Monda,
 morning, and all on account of tha
 nineteen-cent belt, which the girl her
 self would have gladly returned wit all the money in her possession.
 1T cite these cases" concluded Mis-
 Doyle, Ito prove that women are to
 narrow minded to do good detectiv
 work. Their zeal runs away with thei
 Judgment. You know 1t takes spy
 catch criminal, and spies neven hay
 been very highly thought of, especial
 women spies. Women are too delicate ly organized nervously and physicall to make good detectives. The strai
 tells on them, and they grow hart
 hearted and petty in their ways an
 feelings, and their enthusiasm oui
 weighs their sense of justice. So far a
 know women have never been of an very great aid to the police. Of cours they are useful to them at times, br
 only in exceptional cases. For my pal
 think the woman detective very sue , cessful failure. ."--New York Sun.
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