A WOMAN'S WIT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9142, 25 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A WOMAN'S WIT.

Alice Woodiiall, who was recently arrested at Brorawich and taken on an extradition warrant to the United States by Inspector Tunbridge, of Scotland Yard, is now back again in England. She managed to get out of New York in a very clever manner without exciting the suspicions of the detectives who were shadowing her. The charge against her of forging John Gill's name to the transfer of the United States bonds was dismissed by Judge Gildersleeve, but there was another 'charge against her. She therefore disguised herself in a mourning costume, with blue spectacles, and took a train to Montreal. There she put up at an out-of-the-way hotel, and at night boarded a tug which runs down the St. Lawrence River and connects at Quebec with the Allen line steamer for Glasgow. To make sure of eluding the detectives she engaged a woman to dress in the clothing she had worn in court. This woman went to Philadelphia, and purchased a passage to England ; and the detectives, while watchj ing this fictitious Alice, allowed Mrs. Simon Pure to get safely away. On Monday evening at a late hour Alice arrived at I her mother's home in Wednesbury, from I America, and a crowd of friends were ready Ito welcome her. On Tuesday her father's j house was decorated with flags, and in the I evening bands were playing and bells ringI ing and feet dancing. Coloured lights and j fireworks were burned in profusion from the I housetop.