Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1911 — WOMAN POLICE OFFICER ON DUTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMAN POLICE OFFICER ON DUTY

THIS is the latest photograph of Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells, police officer of Los Angeles, Cal., showing her as she appears in street costume and wearing her police badge. Mrs. Wells, who is small and slight of flgdre, and possessed 61 a sympathetic face and manner, believes that the woman police officer can fill a niche in the affairs of the community into which the policeman proper cannot fit himself. Especially is this so where girls or women have already broken or are in danger of breaking the law, she says. And she has proved the soundness of her theories in the city that is wise enqugh to have appointed her.

MRS. ALICE STEBBINS WELLS