WOMAN DETECTIVE.

Mataura Ensign, 20 July 1914, Page 3

WOMAN DETECTIVE.

* I Tiisv'H wiiiVu'i! co-op.-r:s! ,\i m -ici-v-Uw wt»rk thiit rmiUul in U>t« *m!«t lately (ii 1);'. Cb«r!fj> H. liuxter. r»-swi--0111 p.hy a -!cian j., Miiii-k-tvo!!.- ?h':ui-I Workhouse, -Now York, «»• a >-h.>.iy,i- i.-l sdliny iri.irphim' ami other dm#* to prUoiu'w. . , jlrs W. K. Vaii'.lciliiii, who for many liicnrliis hats In".'.'!. t-r\i>?p tf« tin nip out the unlaw nil 1 ra<l<- in <!r»i<p» iu tlint •■•ity. furnished- l!»- mom-y. Katharine tt. DavU, '>i correctioiif, rave ol'ficia-i .".p.!. M:,-- Shbiiii Daniels. a sociological worker nvit;is ik'iir* i.v'e. Mrs !*ann Is allowed hevseii to be MeiilierKjesl to iU Jays' detention on a chei'ge of disorderly conduct. She alleges that while she waft in the workhouse l)r. Baxter sold her a shilling bottle of morphine for £l. ill's Daniels ,sayr> she collected a ma:-:.« of e\ idence slmwiiijjf that a. regular scale of prices was charged for drugs, liquor and cigarettes. 'She asserts that £6O a week was realised in secret sales of this kind. . . Dr Baxter was admitted to bail in £500.'