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over to check the Blotter every so often.

I went with the same squad for a week and nothing happened that was worth recording. The cops did handle themselves well and they made me even respond with a sense of pride in their actions. The boys I rode with were Fred Olson and Rog Brown. It was at the start of the second week of my riding with the boys that word got around the station house that with muggings and purse snatchings on the increase, the Chief was thinking of dressing up a bunch of the patrolmen like women to try and catch a bunch of the culprits redhanded. Fred and Rog thought they were not liable to be tagged for the assignment because they were assigned to a squad car and traveled together. Such was not the case. They told me later about it and it turned out that Chief Harn would pay mileage for the use of unmarked cars and he wanted one of them to dress as a gal and the other to ride slowly behind and assist in any difficulty.

I expected to have Chief Harn jerk me out of the car when this came up but he didn't say anything so I went along riding in the front seat. There was no activity and Chief Harn wondered why. I told him that even a plainclothes cop looked like a cop and if he wanted to be effective he had to get his whole group to look as in- conspicious as possible, to dress them all up. Rog had been the victim and Fred did not feel kindly toward me for saying it. The Chief then said that I'd have to do a little dressing up myself if I was to continue riding. I didn't find anything wrong with it so I told him that I'd report the next evening in the best rig that I could dig up.

Since you know I already had the clothes if you have read my story, THE NEW RENTER, I put on a powder blue suit and white blouse, small hat and short veil, black heels and a good hairstyle on my wig. I was quite pass- able when I reported. Chief Harn said that he would not recognize me if he did not know me to begin with. I can't say the same for Fred. He had evidently borrowed clothing from his wife who was a little smaller than he was and his padding was wrong and his make-up was a sight, Practically everything was a give away if he was in anything other than darkness. I didn't mean for the

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