The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-09-04
SOCIETY GIRL
TURNS DETECTIVE
FOUND NEW METHOD OF TURNING
THEIR TIME TO GOOD
ACCOUNT.
Foreign Girls Been Reading Sherlock
Holmes and Actually Getting
Good Results.

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Sept. $50
ciety girls of Budapest suffering from
ennui are turning detective" il
| search of excitement and mental ex
filtration. This latest stunt of young
women in good social circles has jus
been disclosed in love romance il
the police department which has led tt
the discovery that considerable mum.
Der of prominent girls between 10 and
25-young women of means and highly
educated-are on the regular roster OF
the police as female "Sherlocks.'
The announcement of the engage
ment of bank clerk to prominent
society girl as resulted in the dis
closure of the fact that the police have
a corps of lady detectives from the
best families.
Recently a thousand dollars disap-
peared mysteriously from the cashiers
window in one of the largest banks.
Two clerks were present at the time
they asked to be searched. In the coat
pocket of one of these was found a
large new pocketbook containing the
missing money. He protested his in
nocence so earnestly that the bank
turned the case over to the police to
unravel the mystery. The regular de-
tectives failed and finally the chief
0aI 1ad in oi, ri Of
of prominent family. who had Sc
cretly Joined the secret service" out
of desire "to have something for her
brain to do" as she expressed it.
Keen on Work.
occasions Unraveled mysterious cases
and was the best detective on the
force. She quickly discovered that the
)ooketbook found in the pocket of the
accused bank clerk came from GER
tain store. She obtained work i'll the
store, discovered that one of the store
girls was in love with the second bank
clerk, had presented him with the
pocketbook the day before the robbery.
With this information, the police
confronted the other clerk. He con-
fessed. The accused man, who was at
had disappeared. The girl |
was set at work to find him. She dis
covered him on the bank of the Danube |
writing a farewell note before jump
ing into the water. The denouement |
was the announcement of an engage
ment and 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 a number of young
from some of the best families
in the city, on the secret roster"
Read Sherlock Holmes.
The idea originated with a young
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
ect only to special duty.
Now that several of them have be-
come known, their usefulness is gone
One of these, handsome miss of 10,
declared that she turned Sherlock
Holmes because she became tired of
social doings and as the status of her
amily made it impossible to do any
work without "disgracing" the family
md herself in the eyes of friends, she
wanted some brain exercise" Speak
ng of her work today, she said:
1T is splendid to think and think
nd think over the mysteries of case,
ry to put yourself in the place of the
riminal and sense his ways of think
ng; to theorize and put your wits
gainst those of some one else.
hink women, because of their highly
eveloped intuition, are particularly
dapted for it.