The weekly soliphone., 1915-04-30
WOMAN DETECTIVE
 FACES EXPOSURE
Mrs. L. s. Hill, Recently of Rector, Convicted of Immoral Conduct
 and Goes to Jail.

(FrOm Wednesdays Daily Press. )
 A salubrious and somewhat sen sational trial was pulled off in po- lice court yesterday afternoon when Mrs. L. s. Hill, who came to Para gould several weeks ago from Rec tor, faced a charge of notorious lewdness,' during the hearing of which it developed that the angular and mysterious woman had not only engaged in lewdEess, but had at tempted to blackmail several citi- zens, and to complete the category of crimes embraced in her wide range of operations it was brought out in the course of the testimony that she is probably guilty of pan dering.
 In a statement made to the court, after the prosecuting, witnesses had given their testimony, Mrs. Hill in sisted she was real estate agent and to substantiate this claim she exhibited an envelope with her printed return card bearing the words "real estate." She further insisted she had not been guilty of any offense against public morals and decency, but admitted she had conducted house of questionable re- pute in Rector and that the citizens in that town had set fire to her place and burned her out. She frankly confessed, with some show of brazenness, that her conduct here was not exactly up to Hoyle," but insisted she was guilty of no crime. The court, however, expressed himself as shocked at the exposures made and gave her fine of S25 and imposed a jail sentence of thirty days on her.
 Mrs. Hill, during her stay in Paragould, has represented herself as a real estate agent, and also ad- vertised herself as a private wo- man detective, who makes a spe- cialty of shadowing." She visited many offices and places of business and is alleged to have attempted to blackmail several parties by de- handing that they give her certain sums of money upon threat to ex- pose alleged immoral conduct upon the part of her intended victims. Chief of Police Houston, who worked up the case against Mrs. Hill, says he has information that she successfully worked her scheme on number of citizens. He has a list of thirty-five names of parties who were either victimized by her or were approached with proposi- tions. Most of the parties denied having had any dealings with Mrs. HilLwhile others "shelled down the corn,' and the latter were used as witnesses in court yesterday after noon.
 The exposures made at the trial were shocking in the extreme. un- folding the grossest immortality and involving the names of a number of citizens of more or less promi hence. It was brought out during the hearing that Mrs. Hill was i'm terested in the traffic" conducted by two young girls, one of whom she went to Rector after and brought to Paragould. the other re- siding in this city.
 AS a sequel to her undoing in po- lice court, A. L. Milner, we'll known citizen residing on Highland street, has been placed under arrest for interfering with the officers and for concealing Mrs. Hill from Chief of Police Houston late yesterday aft ernoon when the chief and Mrs. Hill went to the Milner home to induce Milner to go on her bond.
 T had been to several places with Mrs. Hill." said Chief Houston this morning, "and was about ready to