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Screamed Like A
Lunatic
ihp'pcct Office detective staff, the
letter-bov
Itwrtox where
wnere
most of these
iuS.Mfui communications were
SSSS was tocated Suspicion
posteo. , was, locaieu. ouw^^
ience that would convict her. To
that end, some of the penny
itamps in the post, office were
marked with secret ink: the next
time the suspect, or. her husband
maiged
raoif ui
to
nci
wait
luwij
until
• •"
she
-
posted
might be a matter of some .weeks.
So it proved: the Chief Inspertor.
tiring of the affair, resumed
his duties at "Central, leaving
the detective-inspector td carry on
•E he thought fit. The latter was,
resolved not lo be beaten; lie
found an empty house in the street
iortunatelv almost opposite the' ""
one he was watching..
Now and" again he saw. Uie lady
moving about her rooms, but without.
catching a good look at her
IFTCC. n ' LUIMUKILL/ fortnight IJAOACU passed U., by; , "no
"
more poison letters .p. had • • been re-b -
through a blind, he saw thesuspect's
h>.5v
seated
for
at
some
a writing
t me:
table.
it was
She
close
was
busy for some time; it was close
upon 6 o'clock before the Inspec-1
H . th next move. He
•he husband ... took iT the -
letters along -- to the m pillar-box loP-nnY ft a i
hundred vards awav. He returned ,
"o tlie house arid the police !
w " t , intercept- the post-1
SFuiXr^aW
'"L,, 5UJ1. uir lhe ^onn revpaled inemseivurj. damning> .jnii.i,...r.
mmwu
letters —•
•ealed themselves, marked
B"nd all. The arrest could
r
non TKr S-cni to the woman i ,
' d (h inspector nearly
'fl'rnpned draS as he Barnr. fa« lo
,are nltl, |,er. H was tlie proslllute
he had arrested in Regent
Street more than 12 years ago. I
Older, stouter, and exuding a;
confident, harness, she had_ not
altered appreciably TOe insprc
tor ^"^l.^^riHeen you
and ~,' said Jo .. her,. T«„ Ive seen yu
efore, — haven ' t " l'
T
charge of sen '"decent ana •
UbeUous
she stormed
letteis
and
t h ^
she stormea ano
she
sne
laved,
. s n
sne
o o
called upon hei meek, thunderstruck
little husband to throw ijiis
to a . shadow ,, . of her ; - form" . arro-1
Dan gant, n-rll-rlrPSWO weil-dressea KPll. sen. ^^A?r A t OOCLOl l ?helW
S
certificate was produced to the
LO,VJ chief Justice of England who
had to try her; the judge sternly!
brought, UIUU(1III' forcibly Into V , Coui-t. If sh.
w0U]d not. come of her own accoid.
Carried Into the dock she
was. screaming like a lunadc,
lo receive sentence of two
vcars. She died. Ihis Incomprehensible
creature, only a
week or two after the superintendent
had told me about
her.
He regarded tills as the Stranghe
had ever known, and
bf,st piece of deUctive work
hf accomplished In
j £aw the notice: of her death
'and i said to myself: "Well, well!
How many people who read this
will know who she was?
What had caused her to write
these poison letters? One could
less what had occurred with her.
le married, and lived at various
addresses, forcing herself, no
doubt, on many people who soon
realised what she had been
What had happened with her at
Streatham had been repeated- at
Sutton. Those who would not
accept her friendship must take
the consequences.
(Another story next week.)
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