Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-04
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NUMEROUS ON POLICE FORCE

(By United Press ea.,as .laaJ
BUDAPEST, Hungar. ( sss. a.--s5.,-
ciety girls Of Budapest suffering from
ennui are turning detective" in search
Of excitement and mental eXhiliratiol.
This latest stunt of young women in
good social circles has just been dis
closed in love romance in the police
department which has led 10 the dis
covcry that considerable number of
prominent girls between IS and 25--
Young womeE of means and highly ed
ucated-are on the regular roster of
the police force as female "Sherlocks ~
The announcement of the engage
ment Of bank clerk to a prominent
society girl has resulted in the disclos-
ure Of the fact that the police have \
corps Of lady detectives from the hes;
families
Recently a thousand dollars nisap
peared mysteri0usly from IT.. casn RS
window in one OF :!,a largest banks.
Two clerks Were present at the ima
Tnty asked to be searched. In onn t
the cCat pockets Of Quo of these was
found large new nGrkrtpOo cOnf1ia-
ing The missing IL si'"y He protested
his innocence 50 earnestly that lra
bank turned the case ever to the poli sc
to mravel the mystery The regular
detectives failed and finally the chief
called in a young girl Of eighteen
daughter of prominent family. who
had secretly joined the "secret police"
out of desire TO ''have something for
her brain to do as she expressed it.
This young woman had upon several
occasions unraveled mysterious cases
and was the hest detective on the
force She quickly discovered that the
pocketbook found in the pocket of the
accused clerk came from certain
store. She obtained work in the store
discovered that one of the store girls
was in love with the second bank clerk
had presented him with the pocket
hook the day before the robbery
With this information, the police
confronted the other clerk. He con-
fesSed. The accused man. who was at
liberty, had disappeared. The girl was
set at work to find him. She discov-
cred him on the bank of the Danube
writing a farewell note before jumping
into the water. The denOuement was
the announcement of an engagement
and a wedding in September. The bank
refused to prosecute The other clerk
and has enabled him to go to America
to start life anew.
1t was admitted at police headquar
ters that there are number of young
women from some Of the hest families
in the city on the "secret roster
The idea originated with a young
woman after reading Sherlock Holmes.
She thought it would be great fun
TO be a detective. She let several girl
friends in on the secret and they also
became regular police detectives sub
ject only to special duty.
Now that several Of them have be
come known. their usefulness is gone.
One of them, handsome miss of nine
teen, declared that she turned Sherlock
Holmes because she became tired of
social dOings and as the status Of her
family made il impossible to do any
work without "disgracing" the family
and herself in the eyes Of friends, she
wanted some brain exercise" Speak
ing Of her work today. she said:
at is splendid to thlnk and think
over the mysteries Of case, try to put
yourself in the place of the criminal
and sense his way of thinking: 70
theorize and put your wits against
those Of some one else. think women
because of their highly developed in
tuition. are practically adapted to it,