The evening world., 1911-06-13

fearless and consequently very much
County Medical Society.
She is a graduate of the New York
Normal College. has a husband and two
little girls. and In the six years which
she has given to exposing auacks has
been baked. frozen. ~hypnotixed. a
netized. beautined and still appears we'll
and smiling at the society's onioe every
morning for the names Of fresh fakirs
to pursue.
She was there yesterday. . tall, un-
usually symmetrical young woman.
with dark hair. gray eye and . very
b~usinesslike manner. Her photograph
would mako the finest kind Of after
taking picture for any Of the Quacks
It 10 her business to expose. but. OF
course. detectives for obvious reasons
don't have pictures taken.
HOW SHE CAME TO TAKE UP
DETECTIVE WORK.
IT studied nursing for a year and q
half" she said when telling me how
she came to take fake treatment for Q
living. and then a friend Of mine who
was a detective for the County Medical
Society told me about her work and
that there was a position open for an
other woman. I applied and got It six
years ago last February. and I've been
on the trail OF the fake medical prao-
t%itioner ever sinca"
You must have had some interesting
and sometimes dangerous sxperiences.'
I said.
"oh. sometimes rye been discovered
and ordered out Of places; sometimes
my life has been threatened. and once
q woman declared that she would throw
carbolic acid on me. My experience
takes me from the most luxurtously
furnished offices on Fifth avenue. or
near It. to the places on the east side.
where fake treatments are given for
five and ten cents Apiece.
VERY recently l caused the arrest OF
. woman who had a magnificent apart
ment in the Nevada The place was
actually so impressive I was afraid to
20 In and ask for treatment. This was
Mrs. Alma Cusian Arnold. now held
under 500 pail for Special Sessions.
This lady called herself President Of
the Columbia College Of C~osmotherapy'
and also ran a 'healtharium.' as she
termed Il. Her speciality was 'chiro-
practice or healing by the laying. on
of hands Chiro-practice was a new
word 10 me, though I've taken all sorts
Of treatments under all sorts Of aliases.
I rave about seventy-nve aliases OF my
own. I've been treated by supposed
o~s;eopaths and been bruised all over
foy lays by na~turepaths. hydropaths.
acknowledgements. faith healers and
mental and Christian scientists.
DISGUISE FOR HER Is ALL MAT.
TER OF DRESS.
Sometimes wear a disguise. but
more often I 60 to ask for treatment
ms, A., YOU see me now. My DISCUSSES
range from the black dress and white
cap and apron or the good class house,
maid TO the stunning costume OF q
swell actress.
IT remember once we were very anx-
ious TO get evidence gains an Italian
who had been a barber in his "
country, but who had undertaken to
practice medicine in New York. On my
frst visit TO his office he refused TO
treat me. l went away. and having
learned that ne had a sweetheart named
Flo who was on the stage. I got my
self up in some gorgeous clothes and
called again at his office. l told him
Flo had recommended him to me. an
swered a lot OF questions about her,
and he was satisfied that | was really a
friend OF hers. Then he gave me a
treatment. l paid for It. and on the
evidence I had obtained he was ar
rested and subsequently convicted.
TITS a singular thing" Mrs. Benzecry
added, that they never deny having
given me a treatment when / confront
them, though sometimes they lain they
didn't take any money from me.
The only things I've ever been afraid
Of are those huge appliances for giving
electricity, because in the hands OF an
ignorant person they are extremely dan
gerous. one woman sold me a prayer
plaster for rheumatism. II cost 10
cents. and | was to tie It to the rheu-
matte arm and put another prayer pias-
ter under my pillow at night. Would
you like TO see a prayer plaster?'
I said | would like very much to see
one. So John G.. Dyer. attorney for the
/, County Medical Society. in whose office
) this interview took place. produced
} from his desk a soiled and crudely cut
: rectangle of very cheap paper which
. was covered on both sides with an
unlntelllsibie scrawl like that a child
; makes when writing a letter" before
I he has mastered the alphabet.
. | observed to Mrs. Benzecry that. not
withstandlng prayer plasters. love pc
lions, bak!ngs, freezings and mag
MEETINGS. she seemed to enjoy excellen,
health.
Eyes" she said. II do. I haven
taken any medicine in years for myself
though, OF course, | believe In 1t wher
t In- - hAN EAA taR nsA
; fesslon keeps me out In the air a grea
4 deal and gives me plenty OF exercise
| believe 1t Is a splendid profession fol
) women who are shrewd 9nd who sr'
: not given~to too much taHing"-a pro
z viso which to the ready-4ade cynic, a