The Sun from New York, New York • Page 44

THE SUN, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1912. ONLY WOMAN DETECTIVE RELATES HOW SHE CAPTURES 8 Disguised as a Servant Girl She Listens at Doors While Suspects Reveal Guilt Fortune Tellers Advise Her They. Can Procure Her Choice Husband This Although She Has a Daughter Nt: evening last February the peo i.n- ociv ior.4 cuy resn mi nma.cmcnt that a t.ixicah had been held iin liv bandit dnrlni? broad daylight in one of tlm financial dls-irlcCs hiiicst street. 'I ho occupants, two bank messengers, with beaten Into TOO GREEN and robbed of 1:5,000. There was apparently no clue to the Identity of tho robbers nothing that might lead to their capture.

New York was dazed. It Incredible that band of modern erngo coacn rentiers could operate In the city's meet with such Impunity, and the Police Department, seemingly helpless In tracking the nutliwe, was roundly critl- cisen lor apparent incrjielency. Then ocr Its etip of co.Tee one morning three weeks later. with as great amazement as was occasioned by tlm robbery Itself, New York read that the principals In the fcoldul) had been cant nml. "The r.thf urn etated the Police Department, "was almost wnony uue to the clever detective wofk of Mrs.

Isabella ftondwln." And then people began to nsk: "Who Idj iNiiwiu in nnswer Police Commissioner Waldo Informed tho citizens oi jork ity that Mrs. Goodwin was not newcomer to tho force her name, had been on the pa) roll of their Police Department for seventeen years. Fifteen seats or tut- tlnm Mr, had been matron in on of the city's police stations. About two year neo ihe was transferred to the detective bureau to assist In special Investigations and It was because of her clever work in obtaining evidence against fako fortune tellers, clairvoyants, mediums, healers nnd such that she was given the opportunity to assist In the capture of the taxicab robbers. And it was because she grasped nnd realized tlm posl-bllltles of that onnortnnllv Dint i.h.

inimcuiaieiy rewarded with an appointment to the position of first gradedetcetive. result snei nioys tlm unique distinction of being the onli- municipal woman detective in the world and the lira, woman to be thus honored. I-arly In the Investigation or tax hah robbery a clue hit upon which seemed iiiipiicaio two notorious characters known as Oldie tlm lloob nnd Kdwarri Kinsman. Hut tho clue was slight and because or this nml In order that neither of tho men might learn tint they 8Us. peeled the Police Department withheld I i FIRST EXHIBITION One of tho exhibits; to.

hp linivn fifteenth ititernntionalccnKressof hygiene nnd demography which meets in Washington on 10 k)smsscs xpccial intrnvi for, Xstv YorkcrH. Jt is that which relntos to Trinity Church. For tho first time in in history 11 complete survey of tho residential holdings of Trinity Corpoiation in to bo shown. Tho exhibit includes) charts, photographs), pious, concreto models or hous nnd wholo volume of interesting lucts. 01 tho effort ntado to beautify tho tuneuienth by (ho nid, of window Ijoxch and back yard gardens: neriea of pictures Rives evidence.

Tlm entini exhibit was ru-langetl by Miss Ktnily Dinwiddle, who according to Trinily'tt War just published holds tint ofllco of "special assistant in matters) pertaining to tlm nocial welfare of tho tenants of the estates." When Rome thrco years) ago criticism was directed against Trinity's management of its real est ato tho viMtryt'itn decided to have an inspection mudo of Trinity's dwelling house propc-rUes with view to securing improvement!) in them whero possible. A young woman, Noer-tary or tho tenement house commlttcu of tlm Charity Organization Society, vu selected to make tho investigation. So well did sho peifoim this wrvicn that she was engaged permanently, Of her work the Hov. William T. Manning, rector of Trinity, bays: "Miss Dinwiddle's value (o Trinity cannot bo overestimated and I doubt if any other person could havo filled (his very dolicalo ofllco eo capably and hi well, Sho went about her work creating a new position without ostentation or fuss with such success that undoubtedly the position of social welfard assistant will become a permanent one in the field of women's endeavor.

It bridges tho gap between the business ajid social 1 clat ions of landlord and tenant eo admirably that it is surprising it lias not been created before. Any real estate' concern can tell you offhand how many apartments and houses it controls, the number of its (ononis, rents col loci ed and no un, hut they cannot tell offhand the exact Mams of its tenants a wo can, Mim Dinwiildio told a Son reportor about her wm the other day. "I have been the recipient or nothing but kindnea sinon I first started the work," aald Mis Dlnwlddie. "and I count Information from the press. An In- vcllgation among tho places froutientcd by (ho two men failed to result In (heir apprehension.

Tfioy had left town nml according to tlic coli of their acquaintances there were only two persons who might know of thoir whereabouts. Those FOR HER. Aim r- 11 t'm M7 THE HIGH PRICED SEERESS among my best friends Koran of thoso whom I visit in my dally rounds in tho interest of Trinity. "In justico to Trinity I am extremily glad to havo been nblo to prepare this ex-hlbit for Washington. Hut apart from this I think there nro great possibilities in this field for other landlords.

I believe that work for tho improvement nnd management of existing houses carried on iu tho interest or both landlord and tenants can accomplish wido result. "From thn tlmo I first undertook the work there has been systematic inspection or houses In order to bring to light de-reets which need remedying. Trinity's land lord, hip is being exercised rrora the standpoint of consideration tor the welfare of thn tenants, but under conditions which piesent peculiar difficulties. "With tho exception of tho huildingB erected as model tenements nouo or the dwelling houses on Trinity's ground was built by tho corporation. Thn houses wero erected in past yearn by other owners holding ground leases rrom Trinity.

When they como into possession or tho corporation on tho expiration or tho leases uiey aro generally in a run down condition and lnrg amount or work Is neeeeeary before they ran be brought up to the standard which the corporation requires in its houseK, "Ono of the bitterest attacks raado on Trinity related to tlm overcrowding or its tenements, when ns matter or root tho dwellings on Trinity's land contain on an averago less than threo families to a housrt. Out or 3.11 houses, or 82 per ure buildings or threo Morie. "Or these 33t houses but 102 havo three or more lamilies to a hotiKO, 1(M have two families and 120 have but ono family to tho house. Taking I lie lulest available census, figures tho uvoragu number or ramifies to a house in Manhattan is 4.0 as against 2.3 111 Trinity's dwellings. "It is particularly interesting to note tluit taking the figures together they averago less tlmn ono person to 11 room.

Hy actual count them aro bos ramilles with ono person to a room or hss. 410 with less man two persons to 11 room, one family with four nnd nnd ono with six to a room. 1 In tho last case the room occupies a wholo uoor anu is uiviued uy curtains. "I think Trinity needs no lienor recommendation ror tho popularity or its land-lordship than the table whloh has been prepared ror the exhibition showing the worn Ni cilo Annie and Myrtle lloyt, two women long Known to the It wni nt till point In tlm fan that Mr, (loodwln wat tailed in to imlst In tlm In-destination. "l'hni wonioii mint know something, slin toM.

"and wo want you to find out what It l. It may be danger-oils work. Will you take tlm chance?" "I ilon't think I hesitated for moment." said Mrs. (inodwlii, when nske.l If she had been frightened nt tlm prospect of tho danger. "A detective whoo heart Is In tho work mint take things us they come." "It was decided Hi.it I should try nml trot In the homo whero Sweiln Annie nml Myrtle lloyt were living together, third rale boarding house filled wild poplo of shady charm ter.

It was obvious that I would gain llltie by entering the houso ns lodger for It might lake weeks beforu 1 roulil get sufficiently acquainted with tlm two women to gain their confidence. St It whs planned that I go to tho honso and npply for a place nt maid of nil work. This seemed the bet means for bringing ine Into direct contact with lie women 1 was nfler. "Of coiirso 1 was disguise 1. I wore dark, shabby unit, old shoo nnd hat when 1 nppllisl for tho place, and as luck would havo It, Hie woman who kept tlm houo was looking for ii maid.

I nrgue.l over tho question of wage In order that she would not think me too eager for the Job. Finally I was engaged nt I'l week, and then my work beein." "Of course 1 had to make up to look as the in such pi iron always do look, with slatternly clothing and frowsy hair. I wore an old kimono thnt I havo had for year-, all day and all night loo. for thn milter of that. I didn't havo tlmn for ueh changing of cotutne even If It had been required of me.

tor I had to servo all Ihree meils to the lodgers, take caro of nil the rooms In tho house, besides collecting the rents. And I hid to do It well, for I afraid of plng my place before I had ohiMineil tlm Infotmition I named. "It whs hie at night beforo 1 gotthroiigh with my work, and by a or o'clock in the morning when Swedo Annin nnd Myrtle lloyt would come In 1 was up again listening outl(e their Moor, They were nlwav intoxicated and had to listen to a lot of disgusting talk, lint 1 was rewarded when OF TRINITY CHURCH'S TENEMENT PROPERTIES tenant's length of residence in houses owned by Trinity the nioit cotispieuoti orpomtion. Taking of theso figures it is 1 heard Myrtle lloyt say T.ddlo (he r.oob has turned tho (rick nil "Through the keyhole I heard that Kinsman had returned, nml that, ho planned (o takn Swedo Annie Hull to San I'runclsoo with him. 1 also heard that Annlo had como back from Albany with now hat and suit.

From I ho suit Itself, when I went Into straighten up tho room, 1 got tho names of 1 the Albagy dealers from which It had been bought. 1 telephoned theso facts to (he Commissioner, and he found lhat tho things had been purchased In Albany by young man of Kinsman's description, with new fto dollar bills liko thoso taken by the tnilcrih robbers, "I hud to bo careful about bring caught listening, for if nny one hnd suspected that I was detective I would nover have gotten out of tho place alive. Hut If either of them had caught me was always ready to ear that 1 was Just going In to borrow their chafing dish. I did that several times) when 1 wanted to hoar something particularly Interesting. "My experience has (aught me that women of (Ids class always confide In (heir servants, and the girls told me eeveral things when (hoy happened to feel like unburdening their minds.

I was sympathetic, but not curious. And when I had nothing else to do I lay nwnko planning how to get out of (ho houso and telephone my reports to Headquarters without rousing suspicion. In three days I had less than eight hours sleep nllogether. My daughter did not know whero I was, and tho Commissioner had to re.if sure her as to my safety. Meanwhile I had to keop myself awake with strong coffee.

Hut (hero Is usually no hint of sleep In Mrs. (loodwin's bright brown eyes, and her small flguro seems ntilto tireless. Attractive nnd gracious, tin quiet friendliness of her manner would recommend her to women of any class. In her work with thn New York detective bureau she has handled cases la which have bsen Implicated women of all types nnd of every elation in society. Sometimes she moets a woman ns one of her own class.

Home-times as a servant, nnd again for the value of contmst. ns woman of an entirely different social status. "I overdid It the first time got myself up as servant," she said. "I wanted to watch a woman suspected of stealing. She had a fair soclll position and a big house 1 heard she needed a maid, ao, made up as an Irish girl, I went to an employment agency whero she usually got her servants.

"I'm nfther hearing Mrs. R. ts after wanting a chambermaid," 1 said to the proprietress. Vjm'd be loo creen for her." she said. Mite, rm over hero over alx years, hut I living with mo aunt, where we re talking (inelle all the time," I declared.

"Hut having assumed the brogue 1 couldn't very well drop It on the spot, and sue woman recommend me for tho place. Hut fortunately' the woman went to a summer hotel and 1 followed her at a guest. Wo got acquainted over our fancy work and I stuck to her until I could turn her over to the department. Hut I was careful not to overplay my In such cases I am sympathetic but not too much interested. And when 1 am a servant 1 am not too green.

"I have a number of disguises, but of courje 1 never describe any ofvjhem. hive lieen back to the same fortune teller three times without being recognized. It Is the second offence that cougtts In these cases, for tho flrt Is only a misdemeanor. When a fortune teller is convicted he or oftener she has to put up a bond of Ave hundred or a thousand dollars to keep the peace. If thero is any more fortune telling the bond is forefelted.

family they are frightened.but sometimes they go at It again the moment they are out of court. And such things as they tell you!" "One woman directed me to take six hairs from tho head of the man I wanted (o marry and comb (hem v. Ith six of my own. THen I was to put his picture face down upon the Moor and wish that he might never know happinets until I was his. A Hindoo once told me that my magnetic vibrations were not good and that was why 1 had never found a husband.

And I havo a 'grown daughter. Hut lie' said ho could change all that if 1 would pay him tM, "I was to bring him a handkerchief belonging to the man I wanted to marry ami let him concentrate his mind on it. Then Inside of thirty days the man-won Id ask me to marry him. 1 have had all sorts nnd complexions of husbands offered mo for from 110 to lion, but I hiven't wanted one badly enough to invest 110. "A man who had written a newspaper article exposing the tricks of the palmists waa once assigned to me to Investigate, The department thought his knowledge of theso things was a little too exact.

And sure enough, he gave me a regular palm reading and took money for It. And when shown that three families have been Trinity's tenants for fifty years; ten between forty and fifty; twenty between thirty and he got on the stand he told the Judge he thought I was a poor simple soul and ho would set my 'mind nt rest ubout my troubles. "Tho patrons of Ihess fakers are almost all women. On one hand Is I lie poor woman who is worried about something and pays the palmist a quarter for a reading. It isn't Jiard to And out that she is unhappy about her husband, and the palmist at once tells her (hat he is off with another woman.

And the next time the man spends the evening at a union mcoting or a political club sho throws nil this up to him. She Is looking tor trouble nnd sho gets it. Tho only palmist of this kind who ever (old me anything really comforting was a woman who read ten leave and told me I was going to got a raise of a week. And even ho wanted to find me a husband for tio. forty; thirty-flvo between twenty and thirty; 142 twtween ten nnd twentyyears; lb3 between five uud ten years; thirty-four iKW- aBaBaBaBtBal eEtaV' ''aBaBaBaBBBafl 4t wBm gBggBBH BBgBgHpBgBgHII wr MRS.

ISABELLA GOODWIN. SYMPATHETIC BUT NOT CURIOUS. "On (he other hand Is the woman of wealth, and even culture, who hasn't enough to do to occupy her mind. Perhaps sho goes to some high priced crystal gH.er or palml-t, I once went (o a crystal gazer who ato chocolates all through the reading. 'I eat pounds and pounds of sho said, 'always the very And didn't doubt It, for there were and carriages standing In front of her houso all day long.

Hut she didn't mak such point of her prosperity on tho witness stand. Another high priced hcercu told m. 1 would never get my heart's desiro until I woro my colors red and green, As I always wear black unless 1 am In dlsgulso I am afraid I slull havo do without It. "The wealthy woman who Is too lutein-gent for fortune telling or too elderly to caro about affairs of the heart frequently ror rour years; sovenly-ono tor (iiroo years; sovenly-three for two years; i-ixt'y-sovenforono your, and 141 for less than one year. Few landlords can muko a better showing.

"Tho dwelling houses on Trinity's lands I aro small buildings mostly, not nny sense tenements of tho ordinary type, nnd I uro usually not tenements all according to the legal definition of the word, which means houses of three or mora families each. Not only do tho houses have large rooms and abundant yard spaco but there are no rear dwellings except in two instances. In one tho owner was unwilling to give up the roar hous? on a lot of which tho ground lease hnd not ye( expired, and in another 11 janitross was round occupying 11 smull rear cottago. In both cases the houso did uot belong lo Trinity. Ono roar house, tho removal of whloh caused the corporation some regret, hud the historical interest of being said to havo lxen a tenant house on tho Aaron Burr farm in tho old days.

"Among the dwellings belonging to the corporation tho nearest approach to rear buildings is a group of sl. small bouses on a court opening rrom tho street. It is aimed to make thoso houses attractive and with tho coopert.tion or the National Plant, Fruit and Flower Cuild window boxes have been supplied aud flowers planted in a large plot in the middle or the court. Tlio array or (lowers cured ror by the gardener or the corporation does much to brighten tip the bare walls and concreto pavement nt thto point. "Owing to (ho very deep yards, tho low buildings and the absence of roar dwellings the light and ventilation conditions or the block aro very satisfactory.

Ono thing to bo said in favor of Trinity ns a landlord is that the rents or Trinity havo not been raised. These have remained practically the same, for tho hut twenty years In spito of in tuxes and other other ntnug. Tho ract that tito corporation has uiuiutaiued in tho ilowu-town section or the cily thoso small dwellings ut low rents ius.tend or building skyscraper tenements such us thoso justeust or thn Trinity properties) has made nos- sibk the freedom of this prci fiom tho congestion evils general in New York, but the income from tlm hour's small. "I'mliably few landlords In New York city havo so grout 11 variety of (etiants, ranging from laborer with very small Incomes to families of professional men in geta Interested In some sort of faith heallnj, I went to ono woman who told me tint nir headaches came from a coagulation of psyclilo forces and that I would evetute away from Iheni If 1 took her treatments. Another advised mo to keep iny inojth open (o let my dead self out.

"When I gotupT was to sar good morning to my soul, and If 1 should happen to forget It I must go back to bed and get up over again. Then I was lo turn around thrs tlinee holding out my nrins, nnd sav 'All thi world Is my real She had a gnol many 'patients' who wefo paying her a month for lhat sort of thing. "And then them am tho seances of varlo sorts whore I hae met all sorts of from the spirit world, Including my motlir. who Is still allvo and well. One man tni (o (ell me (hrough a materialization of nir husband to buy a certain kind or stock.

I haven't anything to say people wri get comfort fom such llilngj, of coiiMe, (ho law will havo to be changed beforo ih can bo allowed to go on. And I am nilv small part of the machine for eelnj Cut the laws ns they stand are enforced. "Sometimes It's pretty hard work. I hiv had fourteen cnn In the night court In a single night, with fourteen different lawyer trying to rattle mo and distort my tei'i-mony. Sometime tlm people hold oir.

but usually they realize that it's no 1119 an I plead guilty. For. of course. I hive tin evidence. you have to know what lesal evl- denco is In this huin.

You have (o umler-s(and what facts need.and what will be thrown out as immaterial. And you hae to get them. It's all very well to rely on a feeling tho certainty of which you have no proof. I don't any good detective ever lacks (hat sort of an instinct. Hut It Isn't enough for a jury.

"They need facts- actual facts. In the prosecutions for illegal practice of medicine the facts Hro sometimes difficult, to get of these practitioner are women and (hey nro very wnry of any one who looks like a detective. They sometimes threaten me, but usually they are too much afraid of what I can do (o them to be dangerous. And of tour" It all adds to (he interest. I ho work has Its humorous side too, Once In (hecaseof womanwho was arrested for Illegal practicing was called (o offer my evidence.

I told (ho court that (ho woman had charged mo for some facial cream. As sho waj not a licensed practitioner tho court asked her why she hnd fcold the cream. 'I sold her tin cream," flis said, "so tint she could clean her dirty faeo. It was 1 common act of decency on my part." "One of the hardest thlncs to put up with Is tho notonety that folloxs 11 successful oaso. Hut then tliero aro the congratulations In tlm department -from your superior and your fellow workers.

And I want to say that tho men nro willing to give credit to a woman whenever her work hucecsjful. Tho Commissioner might havo kept tlm credit of the tnvir.ih case for himself, but ho did not. And there Is a great satisfaction In feollng that your work has not been wasted." comfortable circtunstances, but (he less well to do as well as tho others belong to tho industrious, law abiding, respectable momU'rs of tho community nnd it woul 1 1)0 hard to match thi-i l-rnnn rtt I I thousand prons with another In the e'v equally large which would show thn same I spirit or cordiality, riendlltioso nnd res cooperation," ODDEST SNAKE BIRD In the Indian Hivcr region of-FloriJa arc to be seen felnnds green with mangrove bushes down to the water's edge. The eceno Is nnimnted by tha presence of many water fowls pelicans), gnlll-nulcs. water turkeys, cormorants and fish crowf feeding on tho Islands, to-gcthcr with smaller numbers of gulls, terns, vultures, ospreya and tnnn-o'-war hawks, swooping, skimming nnd salllns in tho air ubove.

In nil this nrray bird llfo there is no more curious and Intcrcsdng creaturo than tho water turkey, which is lomedmcs called the snake bird. As tho stranger gazes upon this seen ho Is sometimes upt to think ho tees queer snake wriggling out of the wabr several feet Into tho air. If lie grabs his gun and fires It ts probabln that part ot the supposed rnalto will drop upon tho water, whllo tho other part take wing and illcti away. Tho stranger wonders whether the snako dropped tho bird or the bird the snake. The explanation Is qulto simple.

A snake bird, or water turkey (I'lotus nnhlngn), swimming with its long neck only out of the water, had tho ciwU in its 1)111 nnd tho snake was dropped when the. gun was fired. The wutcr turkey has been called most preposterous bird within the rans ot ornithology, "He la not a bird," say one nuthorlty, "ho Is a neck, with subordinate rlghls, members, appurtenances utul hticdlluments tticreunio appertaining iieem necessary to that end. lie bus Just enough stomach to nrrunge nourishment for his uccu. 1 "'i wings to painfully 'llong ''1 his neck, uud Just htn cnougu hs- his neck from dragging 11 ground: and his neck Is light col-ufd.

whllo the rest of him Is black,.