A WOMAN AS DETECTIVE

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 5211, 27 February 1904, Page 15

A WOMAN AS DETECTIVE

A tall, wcll-drcsscd young woman, Susan Mitward, gave some interesting evidence in a ohargo heard at Worship street, London, against Pnillip Nash anti Frederick Allison, charged with stealing £4 18s from the till of tho refresh-ment-house kept by hor father in Whitechapel road. The men -were remanded. Tlio young woman said that Nash entered the shop, and ivas served with tea. Five minutes later Allison orimo in and gavo an order necessitating her leaving the shop. There was no other assistant at hand, and tho two men wero alone. As sho came back she met Nash leaving hastily, and ho said that ho had left the money for his tea on the table. As a matter of fact, he had left 6d, but tho contents of die till wero missing. Allison, when questioned, declared that ho had seen nothing, £tud rcivuvued some 20 minutes longer.

When, he loft. Miss Milward followed him for a niilo and kept him in sight until ho entered a public-house. She suspected that ho had gone to moot Nash, though the men had appeared to bo perfect strangers to each other. She accordingly called two constables, wbo waited outside tbo publio-house whilo sho went into ono of tho bars, and there found Allison talking to Nash. She' called in the constables, and while she- 1 was pointing out tho men Nash said. “I know nothing about it.” but at tho samo time Miss Milward saw that ho was withdrawing something from a side pocket. She called out to a constable, who seized Nash’s ana, and ho then dropped to tbo floor what proved to bo a paper bag and its contents of £3 15s intact, as stolon from her till. Nash, when searched, was found to bo in possession of tho remainder of the money. Ho declared that Arson was innocent.