The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-11-05
ONLY ONE WOMAN
U. S. DEPUTY MARSHAL


There is one woman, and only one,
who works for Uncle Sam in the capa
city of custodian of desr crate criminals
She wears pistol and carries hand.
cuffs in her satchel. Her look quells
the most desperate of her charges and
no prisoner has ever escaped her, says
special contributor to the Los Angeles
Times Magazine.
She is Miss Rose b. Wilson and she
ranks as United States deputy mar
shall. Her business is to transport pris-
oners from the district jail in Washing
ton to the government work house in
Virginia.
The picture one coniures up to fit this
position is naturally that of a middle
aged masculine and militant type, a
sort of a cross between a rabid suffra-
gette and female Judge, bespectacled
and severe, who would inspire instant
obedience by her uncompromising atti-
ture toward everything feminine.
Then You see Miss Wilson and 10, you
gasp and look and look some more, par
ticularly if you happen to see her mar.
shaling group of women whose every
appearance gives you an instructive
conviction that they are in custody and
should be.
Miss Rose b. Wilson is about as far
removed from one s conception of a fe.
male Jail guard as the antipodes, To
begin with she is young, little more
than girl, who knows how to smile
more readily than to frown-in fact she
never frowns, for, being thoroughly
feminine she knows it spoils one s
beauty by making ugly wrinkles.
In the line of her duty she meets, Mt
the Union station in Washington, her
batch of prisoners each morning, pris-
oners of all races and colors and conveys
them to the District of Columbia work
house at Occoquan, Virginia. With a
CHEEKY smile and more CHEEKY "good
morning, girls, she checks off these
denizens of the under world and
marches them down to the train which
leaves around am. every day but Sun
day. That smile works like a charm
the most sullen belligerant, rum soaked
and drug sodden is not proof against
it. Try as they will to hold out against
its influence they unconseiously pull
their disheveled garments around bit
try to straighten their often battered
headgear and conceal if possible, the
worst of their wounds. They make 9
brave effort to assume even for mo
ment the air of unconcern and the in
different attention that women so of
ten feel in the presence of one whom
they must recognize as a superior. Will
rare tact and understanding Miss vii
son does not talk to them nor does sh'
allow anyone else to do so. Once OF
the train she leaves them to themselves
only they know that never for an in
slant is her attention wandering an'
that every move they make is observed
by her. They know, also that her pisto
is at hand and that she has thumb
clasps, an improvement on handouts
rcndy for the unrnly.
When the train arrives at Lorton, ia
nearest station 10 The workhouse, IL I
J met by the " FARM bus or wagon. Tn
} women are piled into II and In yer
little while are safely lodged IN ihei
new quarters, where perhaps one Of ih
greatest punishments is the eKeeafiv
r'afnlmess which they arc compelled q
observe,
J 'fhe entire female Formulation N ih
fern T. To- charge N women, llenr