Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1911 — THEY WOULD BE DETECTIVES [ARTICLE]

THEY WOULD BE DETECTIVES

Women in Quest of Appointment Mob Mayor of Intlanapolis. Indianapolis, Nov. 17.—-TWenty-twc women, the majority of them young and unmarried, but several the mothers of two or three children, applied to Mayor Shank for positions on the police force as detectives. The mayor had offered to appoint twt> of the po- . lice matrons to act as detectives, but they declined, and notice of this caused the rush to his office. The idea of appointing women detectives grew out of the supposed murder of Dr. Helen Knabe and the inability of the male members of the department to find the murderer. Suggestions from a number of women that female detectives would be better equipped in such cases than males, led the mayor to suggest such* appointments. But the rush to his office was so great that he slipped out by a back door and told his secretary to send all inquirers to the police superintendent.