WOMEN SLEUTHS.

Auckland Star, 2 September 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)

WOMEN SLEUTHS.

SHADOWING HUSBANDS. BROKEN ROMANCES REVEALED. Sleuth wives, prepared to follow their faithless husbands half-round the world, if need bo, now provide the Divorce Court with many a piciuant story. With a screeching of brakes the taxi stopped outside the aerodrome and a young woman leapt out, saying: "I want a fast 'plane to take me to Paris immediately!" A few hours later she was scanning the register in a hotel on the Rue Francois Premiere and nodding with satisfaction at what she eaw. Then she took the lift to a room on the third floor. She knocked, and the man who answered the door stared blankly at her. "Good heavens! ,, he stammered. "You!" "Yes," said the young woman grimly, peering over hie shoulder at the girl in the room beyond. "Me. I'll see you in the divorce court, my dear." She was one of the sleuth wives who are becoming quite familiar in the courts. Case after case is being decided on evidence obtained by wives themselves. Relentless Pursuit. No detective could follow a clue more relentlessly than a suspicious wife. Once she has made up her mind that her husband is deceiving her, she will go to any lengths to catch him. Not long ago one woman's husband left her on a prolonged "business" trip. She was suspicious, and disguised behind a widow's veil followed him halfway round the world before she got the evidence she wanted. But she caught him in the end, and a few days afeo secured a decree as her reward. Another woman bribed a hotel chambermaid for the use of her clothes for an hour. It proved a good bargain, for "what the maid saw" resulted in a piquant story in the courts. Once they are on the trail these amateur detective wives are quite unscrupulous. Like the North West Mounted Police, their motto is: "Get your man!" And they always do. Who but a woman, for instance, would have done this? She followed her husband to a quiet seaside resort and there discovered that he had booked a room at the rear of the hotel. She then bribed the porter for the use of a ladder and, after waiting for hours scaled it and appeared at the bedroom window at a most inconvenient moment —for the husband!