Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-03

| their liberty they drag the foot hehind
| them, and old-timers claim that after three
| years or the lock-step In prison a man is
| never able to resume his normal walk
| The ex-convict determined to begin life
| anew and TO make a man OF himself Is
| spotted by the plain clothes detectives an
| over town as an "ex-lag'' on account OF
| the betraying evidence that he has been in
| the lock-step procession. and such an eN-
| convict is subjected to incessant annoyauces
on Ihe part of the police. He finds it viz
| tualy impossible to get work, and his po-
| sltion In general is a hard one
| another prison reform that is being arf
! tated good deal IN this state provides
| that convicts shall be permitted to retain
| their hair and must aches and boards durfrs-
| thelr terms Of incarceration. Il is argued
| ana the argument appears to have a Dreffv
! sound basis-that even a peuitent cap,.5rt
| Is degraded in his own eyes bv tho loss -
ms hair, and one Of the hackers Of this re-
b,,,in. 9eclsFes mat no man shorn like a
! ouLet-head can have any respect for him
sell or for anybody else" Ii Is said thar
most convicts, not used to the ordeal he
| come pretty savage over the clipDing ~
thelr heads, and the reformers declare
| with reason. that convicts as a class would
De less mutinous in spirit and more willing
! 10 perform the heavy tasks exacted Of
them II they We're allowed to preserve tbe,r
hirsute characteristics throughout their i'm
prsonment. The somewhat offhand New
! YORK police declare that no man who has
| done sentence in prison ever reforms un-
ueE any circumstances, but the persons
VINO ag1tate for prison reform declare that
| they have figures to prove that at least one
IN zen does turn over new leaf upon
| ms release from his first term OF imprison-
nent, and IL is for the benefit OF this one
! IN ten that the prison reformers are labor
ing.
Young Woman Ambulance Surgeon.
There's mighty pretty and clever girl
| row making the runs as a regular am
bulance surgeon attached to the stafr Of a
New York hospital Pretty is scarcely a
hitting word for her-she is beautiful. Just
now clever she is is indicated by the fact
mat she passed second in her class Of sur
gerry which was composed almost exclu-
sNely of young men. She wanted actual
surgical experience made her application
ior an ambulance surgeons billet and got
1t. The hospital officials were AT first a IT.
tie chary of giving the young woman the
appointment. fearing. as they did that
all OF the young male physicians attached
10 the hospital would at once proceed TO
fali SO violently In love with her as TO
neglect their duties, and ultimately get to
Drawing among themselves over her But
the young woman quickly made # clear to
the hospital authorities that she would
know how to handle any such situation
should 1t arise, and she went duty as
an ambulance surgeon last week-the first
OF her sex. Her very first case was that
of longshoreman, who was found stretch
ed out on water front sidewalk I'm a state
of coma. The young woman I'm her tidy
uniform bounded from the rear stem Of
the ambulance when it drew alongside and
bent over the prone navy. She applied a
few little tests with which she appeared 10
b. perfectly familiar.
Only a Case of Drunk.
Just drunk" she remarked .,yeetlv 10
the male assistant who accompanied her,
and then. instructng the cop who came up
to ring up a hurry wagon" she bounced
back to her rear step on the ambulance
She has already rendered business-lille
first aid to the injured in more than
dozen cases a baby that was scalded by
falling into a tub of hot water little girl
run down by an automobile, a painter who
fell from a scaffolding, a matron whose
husband pounded her to within inch of
her life, a love-distressed soubrette who
tried to kill herself with morphine, and so on
and. in addition to mot losing a case"
as the medical men put It, she has held
the male staff Of the hospital at arms
length and thus appeased the fears of the
hospital authorities
"AIl were afraid Of now" said the super
intendent of the hospital the other day. lis
that We'll lose her. Were bound to do
that, however. It's invincible. The first
eligible young millionaire that claps an eye
on that girl is going to carry her off by
main force and marry her. wiin' or no
willin', and then this hospital will lose the
best ambulance surgeon il has had since
1t was founded as a public institution"
Police Method of Locating Crooks.
The police of New York have of late
years-since the day of the astute and ever
to-be-regretted Byrnes I'm fact-got into
jolly habit of describing criminals whom
they can't place as coming from the outly-
ing cities they call them-Phadephia
Boston, Baltimore. and. pretty frequently
of late, Washington.
For about two months past a handsome
woman of about thirty years. and very
stylfshly arrayed. has been operating with
great success in the jewelry stores of New
York. Her scheme old and Srnple one
was one from which she derived vast
nrnflf-if q hos not
with at least $4,000 worth of diamonds
since she first began her campaign here
She would drive up to jewelry estab-
lishment In a swaGger turnout. and. enter
ing the place, ask the clerk TO show her
some rings. Her beauty and elegant man.
ners generally succeeded in impressing not
to say illustrating" the clerk which was.
Of course, to her advantage. She would
display a very fin'cal spirit in making her
decision, and finally decide to postpone
making a selection until another day. When
she had departed, and the clerk rearrauged
the gems he had shown her to put them
away, he found that one Of the rings on the
tray bogus which the woman had
skillfully dumped into the tray, taking one
of the good rings from the tray in its stead
As stated. this woman began her cam
palgn about two months ago. and of course
from the beginning the jewelers. COM
plants began to pour into police headquar-
tiers. The detectives went after her''-so,
at least they claimed-but they didn't get
her. The house detective Of a great jew
elry establishment did get her the other
day. however. and turned her over to the
police authorities.
who is she?' breathlessly INQUIRED the
police reporters at headquarters.
''She's a crook from Washington" said
one of the detectives. shes been working
the game down there off and on for years.
with a little lobbying and Matchmaking on
the side. She was never in New York be-
fore until she came here couple of months
ago"
The woman was mysteriously released
on BAN that seemed nominal enough on the
day Of her arrest, and now II is said that
none Of the jewellers are coming 10 the
front to prosecute her 1t is a pretty fair
guess that Major Sylvester never saw the
woman in his life-and he would have been
fairly certain to know her lineaments had
she really been a Washington crook-and
that she never sojourned to any large
tent at the capital. The reason why this
is a pretty fair guess is that one of the
old-time police reporters unhesitatingly az
firms that the woman has been for several
years a tenant of a fine uptown house
owned by one Of the New York headquar-