The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-11-12
HEWRY ZEHzER

cree The referee was generally an old
silly, who did not know that IL was all
acting. lie would say that l didn't have
to tell II 1 didn't want TO.
81. course, i never really had TO tell
anything to degrade me right out. All l
mad to DO was to give myself away so
that the whole case was clear. OF course
i would howl and carry on like anything.
The referee would look uncomfortable
and seem sorry for me. lie didn't know
that | got my money for doing what 1
did.
POOR OPINION OF REFEREES.
you see, practically all I had 10 re-
member was new name and address ev-
cry Lme. In divorce cases the referee Is
a man who Is like "a marine on a ship
You tell him anything and he believes IT,
That's what they have him for. He never
sends To investigate any stories because
he doesn't have 10. III the witnesses say
they live i'm a balloon I'm Madison square
the referee believes them.
This business of being a correspondent
is very easy after you get used TO II, he
cause you have to learn but one story
and you tell II all the time TO an old
man, generally with gray whiskers, who
bushes There isn't anything dlsgraceful
about IL, because it's all lie.
THE man that you say you were friend
ly with you have never seen I'm your life
outside OF that office and you wouldn't
know him from a hay stack. Your name
never gets into the papers. The reporters
are not allowed at the hearings Your
picture never gets In the paper nor any
thing. There was no danger Zeimer
said, OF being found out
"Zeimer told me that being profess
sional correspondent wasn't wrong, be-
cause no harm was done TO anybody. IL
people want divorces, why shouldn't they
get them? he said.
ALSO POSED AS DETECTIVE.
II didn't appear In many cases. You
see, / had only known Zeimer for a lit
tie while. First OF all. did office work
and then when learned the kind OF story
that they wanted correspondents TO tell,
they tried me on a case. That was only a
few weeks ago. 1 had been In the busi-
ness only a little time when was caught
'"When the suit was brought by a man
I was the private detective. / used to say
I was a dressmaker who worked In the
same house and saw things that
oughtn't To see. OF course IL was ALI lies
I'd never seen anything. We used to
make up any address TO have the thing
happen In. Once we hit stable and de-
scribed IL as a fiat house six stories high
and told all about the rooms and the
transoms and the doors, and so on. That
was a bad break. But no one would have
ever known whether IL was stable or an
ark of field OF corn II that stenogra-
pher hadn't gone and told the Judge.
I'm going TO tell all know when I'm
on the witness stand. 1 don't think l want
to be a professional correspondent any
more. It's work two or three weeks and
get very little. money for it. and then go
to iail for three or four months. | never
really saw the thing rightly.
DENIES sHE WAS HYPNoTIZED.
IAN these girls nowadays that get
caught doing things say they have been
hypnotised. Now, 1 am not going 70 say
that Zeimsr hypnotised me. because he
didn't. He just suggested the thing u me
and did IL. thinking II was q nice. easy
light employment. aud that would make
very good living al ~. Now. / am not
going 10 say how much / got for each
case. I told Mr.. Ungsr that, but he
mustn't tell you"