Arizona republican., 1911-09-02
PATROLMAh HOSMER
 Vs. MARY WASHINGTON
WHAT CAME OF HER ATTEMPT TO TAKE cHATTELS FROM A
 CHlNAMAN
Clever Detective Work on Small Clues
 in a Case Of Small Sequences.

The police department of the city of
 Phoenix is doing some very good work
 nowadays One of the very bes: pieces
 of detective work was completed yes terday by Patrolman Hosmer, and con-
 trary to his usual rule, Chief Moore
 desires it know to the public who did it.
 On Wednesday evening of this week, about D. m. a Chinaman named Ming Lung, who mends chairs. in trying to enter his home in the alley between Fifth and sixth streets and Madison and Jackson streets, discovered that the screen door was open. the inner door had been forced and the paddock was off and lying on a chair near the door. with a woman's hair pin in fl and a pair Of shears with newly broken point lying near.
 As he stopped closely to examine the lock and other articles, woman. who had been standing as far back as pos sible in a corner of the room, attempt ed to rush past him. As she went. he grabbed at her and clutched a string Of beads from her neck and 9 piece from her Mexican zerape or lace-like shawl Beyond these, which he brought to the police office the next day, and a description of the woman as a big black woman with pop eyes and thick lips" and the fact that she ran into the alley between Fifth and Sixth and Jackson and Buchanan streets. he could give no clue as to who she was, except that he had seen her four or five years ago.
 On entering the house the chinaman had found his watch. shears. and other trinkets placed in a handkerchief on a chair, no doubt by the woman, ready to be tied up and taken away, but the fact included no further clew as to who the housebreaker was.
 On these slight clues, Patrolman HOsmer was put to work, the case to ! be followed up in connection with his other work in watching "speeders" Following the first clue of the alley 1 the woman turned to in her flight, ev- erybody living along several alleys and : streets for several blocks was inter- ! viewed as to a pop-eyed black woman. . From finding one or two parties who knew of such a woman. but did not know where she lived the trail found proceeded to those who knew that her name was Mary Following the name | of Mary led at last to the number 212h Buchanan street, where black woman was found who answered to a | physical description given, and as I by the detective brought out the admission from her that her name was Mary. Arrested and taken to the [, police station, where she was confront ed with the chinaman, the identifica tion was completed, and then 1t was |, learned that her name is Mary Wash ington. Admissions of the woman liv- ing in the house with her, showed that she had had such a string of heads as the chinaman had secured from her neck on the night of the house-break- ing. and, armed with a search war rant. the officer soon found the shawl | the piece of shawl the china man had secured at the same time. The shawl was found tucked behind stand. il
 Taking all these evidences together, ii IS justifying such action, Mary Wash z ngton was yesterday afternoon com It nitted by the police to the city jail. le rom which she will probably be turn d over to the county jail today, as lrt crime of housebreaking-as no ar icles were taken from the house. it S doubtful if the charge of burglary would lie-is classed as a felony, to ,e tried in the district court.
 But the work of Patrolman Hosmer, n this case is considered in police cir les an extra fine piece of work by man who is making a record that B conspicuous in other ways among
 lot of men who make up as fine police force, from the chief down, as is probably ever gotten together in a city he size of Phoenix