The daily Alaskan., 1907-06-08
Dominated by a Woman,
LOrIELnaLl

We of the police are constantly sub Derted to this domination of women. 1 We therefore often appear to err in 1 Iud1mcut or in ordinary caution, while
 wc err in neither, being simply mas tered by the woman and forced to du grr bidding. I was once sent with a single assistant to go and make an ,rlrsL The offender was a woman who lived in luxury und rcHurmcut Of course we went in plain clothes. Leay- .ug my assistant at the door, l entered ru being bilduu to do SD by maid and asked to see the mdy. The mJiI asked SD wUIy questions as tJ Uy business that. having been warned against slipprsIuess, went upstairs auI straight into a large room used .or Doudoir. A ady-I had her pho.
 ,ogruph m my pocket ruSr from lounge and confronted me.
 "Nudum." l said. "I am sorry to have To place you under arrest"
 The look she gave me made mr feel all there is of contempt that could pos. s.U,y pertain to my crruud. It suid to mn without a word of speech. "l0u have come uubjIdcn into mdys prl- gutr room. Nou are on a level with the urute." Had the words been spoken they would likely not have affected wr. As It was. | felt abiect shume Then in a Jwukliug her manner chang rd to a sort of tricudlness
 "I see" she said In a voice full of melody. you are police officer not In uniform. but stl an ouiccr You are simply doing your duty. May l ask what you are going to do with me"
 l explained to her that l would be obIt-rG to conduct her to the station
 where in default of bail she would br .rrkrd up
 .I d, not think" she said, "that l. uavug lived so far above such things. could survive an hour lu a cell. IT you wuI permit l can attend to ,Ge bail he fore leaving here l gsk your perm.s sion rU send d messenger tu uu a,tur ury asking u.m ru conn" here #ud take charge Ut my ease from lHt hr-tw.ug am completely ignorant or sueu mW ,ars."
 Somehow the look she gave wo. taken wi,u a certain rru>3uaE.eur-s ul tap request, decided or, ullmr dominate. me. told her Co write her message auG l would direct a man ] uad puSte. a. the door to allow her messenger tu pass. She was going into tine next room when ! stopped her.
 "Swp,y.' she said. you do not ey pect me to go to the police station in this cosWmct'
 How could !? She was on deslahille I permitted her to go both to write the note and change her dress. She told ne that to save time she would send her messenger first and don another costume afteywarI. As soon as she disappeared l stepped Into the hall and saw that the room she entered Lad no pgrcss except by the boudolr This satisfied me Not ten minutes after her disappearance a young man of swarthy complexion and a black mustachc, with a note in his hand, hurried out of It. passed me and went downstairs. ] called to my man to suffer him to pass.
 1T the lady was expeditions in send ing her note, she certainly took her ume M changing her dress. | waited both for the return of the messenger and for her reappearuuce l waited iu vain for hoyh ] went Co the door lead. ing Into the adjoining room aud listen. el. l could hear no sound Suddenly a great mjsgjy.ng wclled up within me. | opened Ls.5Or and entered.
 There iu heap on the floor were tbc | clothes she lud w0uu at my coming. Au enormous coil of hair lay on the dresser A box of brown dye stood uu- covered before a mirror. The lady had passed uu- BIS her messenger.
 sprm- downstairs and to the near est telephone. where l confessed wna. had occurred to ,he chief. IIe told me that he would have the railway depJJs watched, but as a steamer was Co sail within au hour l had better go there myself since the gulprit would be uora likely To get out of the country .uuu simply out of the city. ] followed uis directions and proceeded without delay to the Gock
 TgsSruE-rS were beginning to arrive made a search ur ,Ge ship. then took position at the -an-wuy, where | scru uu.cH every person who entered. saw no uue whom l considered could possibly be my escaped prisoner The -uugway was being withdrawn when a carriage drove up hurrIediy, the door opened. and a fat woman wearing dark sprcraclrs jumped out. She was very much excited, evidently for fear of being left sputterIug French and wad- ding Co the gangway, which she mounted as 1t was being withdrawn. She was the last passenger to go | aboard, and when she had done SD ] went away with a heavy heart. l would be reprimauded by the chief and be the laughlngstock of the rest of the force.
 One day a cabmau stopped me on the street and asked:
 "Cap, was you l0okiu' for some one to go out on the steamer last week"
 "Yes Why do you askT'
 "WeM | drove the old FrenchwOmau to the ship. She was a young man when she got In. Maybe she was the ..--. --..-. r--.-.- T-.t.fs-r H.-FF