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Real Bad Brooklyn Girl Is Sent To Good Shepards for a Year, . ‘BROOKLYN, N. Y., Sept. 6.—Mag istrate Nash sentenced Elizabeth Trendle to a year in the House of the Good Shepherd when she was arraigned in the Adams street court. Elizabeth is a girl who insists on wearing men's clothes because she thinks as a man she can make more money. Last Saturday she wrote a letter to Presi dent Wilson asking for her rights. She heard from him yet. She certainly did hear from Mag istrate Nash. He sent for a copy of the Law of 1892 which contains the section relative to women masquerad ing as men in the public streets. After he had read this section he said sternly to Elizabeth: “Are you guilty or not guilty?” The girl looked down at her neatly — blue serge suit and said mild “Well, your Honor, you see what I'm wearing. I guess I'm guilty all t. o the magistrate seized his fountain pen wrote rapidly for a min ute and then said to the girl: “I sentence you to one year in the House of the Good Shepherd.” On August 26, Miss Trendle was found in the rear room of a saloon at the corner of Adelphi street and Flushing avenue, wearing man's ap parel and drinking with three young men. Her mother, who lives in Long Island City, refuses to have anything to do with her. When the Mother Superior of the House of Good Shepherd heard that Elizabeth Trendle had been sent to that institution she telephoned to the Adams street court that she would not take her. The girl was an inmate there once before, and behaved so badly that she is not welcome back there.
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The Mobile Item
Mobile, Alabama, US
Sun, Sep 14, 1913
Page 23
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