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Pretty Girl Beggar In Boy's Clothes Narrates Kidnapper Gang Life
A 17 year old girl, Er nestine Hamilton of Brooklyn, claims to have lived with a kidnaping gang led by Mrs Thomas in New York and to have been taught to beg and steal. Arrested in Sharon Massachusetts for vagrancy, she recounts being coached in theft and disguise and seeks to find her mother, a supposed French actress.
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Boston
Mass
Ernestine Hamilton
Brooklyn
N. Y
Sharon
Thomas
Montgomery St
Lydia Simmons
Cape Cod
Theodore Hamilton
Massachusetts
Commonhwealth-ave
Paris
New York
Ernestine
Thomases