The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-01


secrets of domestic and private life;
communications strictly Confidential;
meddlerB need not apply. HIRA."
Then would follow an address in
the COS, west of Central Park. A
test of the manner in which adver-
tisements are read was proven in
this case. No sooner had the ads be-
gun to appear than smartly gowned
women began to step from carriages,
private motors and taxis at the given
address. Even men of position are
known to have called upon the palm
| list.
Victims Are Caught.
"a woman Of fashion being admit
ted was received by a trim maid in
a handsomely furnished apartment,
whose appointments indicated a wo-
| man of good taste and refinement
| The applicant for information was
received by the fair palmist, hand
some woman of 80 or Whereabouts,
known to the police of the large cit
les as Painting Bertha on account of
one of her stalls of doing the coma
act in hotels and Pullman cars and
picking the pockets and gathering
in the necklaces, etc., of women who
might go to her assistance.
u" Painting Bertha, now trans
| formed into Nine Hira, the noted
palmist, would receive her client
graciously, and shortly thereafter
begin an examination of her left
palm. The fake palmist, knowing
| that the woman had come to be told
| that her husband or sweetheart, as
the case might be, was playing false
would examine the palm and sud
denly discover a line in the other
woman's hand that indicated her
husband or lover was. devoted to fair
but false goddesses.
4 find here a line she would
say in velvety but panied accents,
that indicates that your husband eh,
er, that is, does not return home al
ways punctually.'
"'Oh, l knew it, | knew it, the
client would cry tearfully this only
confirms my suspicious What shall
do! what shall l dol" etc.
with rare sensitiveness Painting
Bertha would then protest against
knowing anything about vulgar de-
| tectives, but would casually reach
for a telephone book and suggest
that some detective agency would be
| discovered therein. Also casually
she would discover the name of the
Blank Detective Agency, whose tele-
phone number was blank so and SO,
Murray Hill, who might undertake
so delicate an investigation Nine
| Of hn 4
call up the detective agency, and the
man at the other end of the, wire
would suggest that she call at the
office This the woman would do after
/ reciting her suspicious and giving
the name of her husband, his place
of business and other details of his
daily life would pay over her first
installment of $50 and depart.
Starting Game in Earnest.
Then the game would start in
! earnest. Would they shadow Mr.
John Robert Doe? Not so you could
observe the same. For ten days or
two weeks Mrs. Doe would call at
the fake detective Office and there
receive the written daily reports of
the agents of the bureau. These re-
ports indicated nothing unusual or
! inimical to the marital happiness Of
| the said Mrs. Doe on the part Of
| the husband. Just about the time
| that Mrs. Doe began to become impa-
tient a report was handed her that
gave her a decided shock. The re-
port would read that on the night
previous (and on this occasion Mr.
| CHI o1n Inv hn 70 yn
detectives) said Doe had gone to the
Aston House and taken a drink with
some friends. He then proceeded
uptown to his home address. The
shadows had here lost him, but had
learned from servants at the house
that he had gone to the theatre.
Getting quickly on the trail they
| had located him at such and such a
theatre, and there found him with
woman whom he later took to a
| Broadway restaurant for supper.
Then followed an accurate descrip-
tion of the woman.
Mrs. Doe would read the descrip-
ton and with genuine excitement
turn to the chief of the bureau and
exclaim: Why, that's a description
of myself. l went to the theatre
and to supper with my husband!
with the other reports proving
no out-of-the-way tactics on the part
of said Doe his wife would depart
elated and in almost every case or
dering the investigation dropped af-
ter the payment of a final fee"
Good underground meal. Fultons