A MALE LADY'S MAID.
:\bun;tobaphJat£ast.- : The quiet little yillige of Bexley, in Kent 4 has recently been startled, by a strange dig. covery. ..A lady,. whose'staff includes eeverel female servants, was vieitod by a detective, who requested. permiesion to, m and examine the of her household as he was eearohing for a suspected oharac;ter, Tho request, though,ooiisidered extraordinary, was at length complied with, and each servant interviewed in taw. After the" last' ono had left tho man from Scotlaud yard seotned puzzled, and pointedly asked" the lady of thß house if;,he had seen all the aervants. She assured him ; that he had, but added as an afferthohghti "I have toot called; my ladies* maid, 'sboSliaa been With ina for two yeare,anaikqowthftreoin bo nothing againet her." Thß deleotive, while politely lady thMhe quite believed allsh?hadatated, presied her to permitihe ladies' maid to be qalied, wbieli was done; !h;e fcir! entered the room, aod , without a nioment'e heeitation, the detective slipped on.her wrist? a $ cugß « saying, as he did fa "Well, Bill, we baveruh you to earth at last." Tfie trim ladies* maid turned out to be a man : iniieguise;,who had been •' wanted," for some time, and it is lair to nifntion lhat he,pr,ehe!j.had always conducted "hereelE" admirably;' andlriew "her" dulide remarkably well,
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 6838, 10 February 1891, Page 2
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211A MALE LADY'S MAID. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 6838, 10 February 1891, Page 2
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