Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-22

New York, July 19.--Not long ago
there appeared the advertisement Of
a certain remarkable professor, who
for the sum Of one dollar agreed to
tell people the occupations best fitted
to them, to remove all evil influences
and to reveal the names OF their enem-
les. This advertisement was carefully
clipped from the papers by a small,
dark-haired woman with hazel eyes In
downtown ONCE and pasted into a
large book which stood on the top
of roll-top desk, after which she
noted an address on tiny leather
notebook. At the same time, in an
other section Of the city. an immigrant
t, woman who was the proud proprietor
of small grocery store, clipped the
same advertisement from the paper
and stuffed it hurriedly into her hand
bag as her husband came into the
store on the way to his mornings
work
A month later the immigrant woman
was shown into the downtown office
Of the city detective headquarters and
Introduced by the inspector to Mrs.
Isabella Goodwin. detective. a small.
dark-haired woman with keen hazel
eyes. Seated in small straight-back-
ed chair the immigrant woman told
her the story of swindle the pathos
of which was not lost in it's revela-
tons of ignorance and superstition.
The woman detective sat silent. Occa-
| sionally taking notes and asking Ques-
tions when the thread of the story
became difficult to follow.
The immigrant woman and her hus-
band had been admitted at Ellis Island
five years before. The husband, who
was by trade a marble-wOrker, had
secured a place in a small town in
Pennsylvania, where he had been paid
ten dollars a week. For this he pol
ished marble under water, which. in
winter. when there was ice, caused his
feet to crack open and bleed; and his
wife kept house. After a year of this
they had accumulated money enough
to take them to New York where the
husband obtained a lob at twenty-five
dollars week This was. indeed. a
luxurious salary. hut instead of in
creasing their standard of living, the
immigrant woman still lived as frugal
ly as possible and saved money.
When they had fifteen hundred dol
lars in the bank they bought a groc-
cry store. while the husband still kept
on with his work The. business was
profitable, and soon the immigrant
woman found she had paid the small
mort gage on the store and had thirty
five hundred dollars in the band. She
was just on the verge Of buying a
chicken farm. selling her store and
maving into the country when the
professors alluring advertisement at
tracted her attention and she deter
mined to seek his advice. sf.s@
For the sum of twenty-five dollars
the professor removed an evil In
fluence over the immigrant woman,
told her the names Of several remote
persons who were jealous Of her and
advised her not to buy the chicken
farm. Instead, he explained she
should by all means invest her money
in stocks. as the stars showed that
this would be her most successful line.
and he related numerous instances OF
individuals who had invested in var
ious stocks under his direction who
were now riding in motor cars and
sending their children to college. ,
The woman had been fully con-
vinced and she resolved to mortgage
the grocery store to obtain more
money for Investment 40 she could
surprise her husband with the enor.
nous returns OF her thrift. For this
money the professor presented her
with impressive looking documents
bearing gold seals. describing mining
stock which had never been heard of
by anyone but the professor. Then
suddenly and inconspicuously, the pro-
fessor left town. The rest was up to
Mrs. Isabella Goodwin, woman detec-
tive. ,'~.~,. E., <',.s's,:,t,a. -.
In order that the professor might not
learn that the police were on the case
Mrs. Goodwin disguised herself as a
maid and entered the employ Of neigh
bors of the seer. She then discovered
that The professor had employed doc
tor constantly while in the city, and
finally obtained the name of the doc
tor. Here she found that the pro-
lessor had been suffering from cancer
of the stomach. in which case he could
not have gotten far away. His plan
would be to stick to the large cities
where there were specialists and
plenty of medicine Mrs. Goodwin
objects to the publication Of some Of
her methods in detecting and captur-
ing a criminal, since In her profession
the penetrating Of disguise or make