WOMAN'S WITS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 53, 14 February 1913, Page 6

WOMAN'S WITS.

" BETTER THAN ALL THE MEN'S." "You seem to hare more wits than the whole of my sex put together," was Mr Plowden's compliment to a voung woman at Marylebone Police Court lately. , _, . Accusing a young man named B redbrick James Slack of robbing her of a "landbag containing £1 15s 7d, Miss 3essie Logan, of independent means, "\ad told the magistrate that the.rob'ierv took place- on a recent Thursday night. She followed the man., but two nen, eviSentlr friends of his, attempted to detain hea\ and also diverted the attention of a constable until the man had escaped. The next night, said Miss Logan, fhe went out in search of the robber. She saw prisoner in the Marylebone Road, and aftetr watching and followng him for an hour she went up to him and invited .him to accompany her J -o the police, station for "your last night's behaviour.-" He refused. She waited l>v his side for 10 minutes and +hen when he walked away she followed him. When she went up to a ■ onstable the prisoner ran away, but <»oing through another street she intercepted him and ga.ve him into cusThe prisoner, wlto asserted that he was the victim of mistaken identity, ( , was remanded.