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Has Her Hair Cut and As-j sumes Full Male Attire, but Her Shoes Betray Her,FOOLS EVEN THE BARBER1!!Sarah Wilson of St, Joseph, Mo,, Runs Away From Home to See Her Sister,IClad in boy's clothing, with a package of tobacco in a hip pocket of her trousers and the curved stem of a small pipe exposed from the breast pocket of her coat, Sarah Wilson, fifteen years old, who ran away from the home of her parents in St. Joseph. Mo., Sunday, was arrested in Chicago yesterday, a short time after she had had her hair trimmed in male fash-on in a barber shop near the Union Station.She made one fatal mistake—that of wearing her own shoes—and her small feet betrayed her. Her younger sister, J.illinn, had cut her hair short before leaving St. Joseph, but the job was a rough one and she went .to the barber shop to have the ragged hair evened. The barber completed the haircut without oiscivering his customer was a girl.Detectives became suspicious when they observed Miss Wilson's small .Jeet. and when they questioned her she admit led she “was a girl.” She was carrying two suitcases filled with boy's clothing, and had s::i in her possession. She was taken to the South ('lark street Police Annex, where she told of her escapade.One Way to Visit Sister.Miss Wilson said that she was ou her way to visit her sister. Mrs. Ellen Cerbitz, ! who lives in Speed, Kan.“My father, who is a retired farmer, | didn't, want nie to make the trip.” she j told the policemen, smiling. “1 just said 11 would go anyway, so I decided to make up as a boy. 1 knew my father would ask the police to search for mo and tnat if I wore boys' clothing the police couldn’t find me.”“I bought the package of tobacco and the little pipe so I could smoke, and make people think I really was a boy. And I did smoke some, too. It was on the train. It made me sick, but I just smoked away.”Miss Wilson laughed as she related how her eleven-year-old sister had assisted her iu “making up as a boy.”“I had taken some money belonging to my father and when school was out last Friday evening, Lillie and i bought the boy's clothing in some stores and then Lillie cut off my hair with a pair of scissors, and I made up like a boy. Lillie went to the depot where I got the train.Sister Didn’t Cut Hair Straight.j “I had a lovely time on the traiu. No | one dreamed I was a girl. I just took out my pipe aud smoked every once and a while, and I guess I looked just like a boy. My sister Lillie didn't cut my liair straight, so as soon as I arrived in Chicago I went to the barber shop, where I had my hair trimmed nice and even. The barber thought I was a boy. I had to laugh when I got through. It was sc funny sitting in a barber’s chair.”Before going to the barber shop Miss Wilson had purchased a railroad ticket tc j Stockton, Kan., which is not far from the home of her sister, iu Speed. She was returning to the Union Station to board a train for Stockton when the detectives arrested her. She said she came to Chicago before going to Speed, Ivan., to “puzzle the police,” as she thought detectives would be watching the trains at Speed. Her parents will be notified of her detention in Chicago.•When arrested Miss Wilson wore a light gray cap, a starched collar, red four-in-hand tie, blue coat a Fid brown trousers. The latter were too long, aud were turned up at the bottom. Her male attire was complete, except for her own shoes.
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Tue, Apr 23, 1912
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