The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-01-23

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With Her Stepmother-she Travels 10
Chicago in Effective Disguise.
Captain Hickey, of the South Di-
vision, received dispatch from po.
lice headquarters night before last,
ordering him to send an officer forth
with to Engewood to meet an lncom
ingtrain. In compliance with the man
date from the superintendent the
Captain sent one of his men unln-
strueted. except as to the fact that he
would there meet the conductor, who
would direct him. When tho officer
arrived at Engelwood he was told.
by the conductor that gentleman on
the train had been robbed OF $50
Who the perpetrator was he had no
idea; but the nsrvons demeanor OF
one OF the passengers who wore a
kossuth hat and a brlsanlish cloak,
had excited his suspicious. When
the train arrived in Chicago, among
the passengers vino debarked were
two parties, one a senslbly>appearins
matronly woman of 80 aud the per-
son with kossuth hat and a cloak.
The latter was tho first to leave the
train. With the assistance OF this
gallant the lady of 30 stepped TO the
platform, and the two i'll company
walked to the Gault House, whittier
they were followed by the suspicious
conductor. When breakfas was al
most over at the Gault House, yes
terday morning, police officer
named Slayton appear, ana requested
the parties to hurry by, as .hey We're
wanted at the Central Police Station.
The officer took thsm before Super.
intendent OF Police Washburn.-
When the door had been closed very
softly, shutting in the two prisoners
and superintendent, and shutting out
the officer, the occasion OF the arres:
was discovered. The kossnth hat
and brgandlsh cloak did not cover a
masculine head or a masculine figure.
| The disguise was quite perfect, but,
on being accused OF being OF the lem
mine gender aal of having donnel
mems attire, the prisoner admitted
her sex and told her story. She
came from Massachusetts to en- Joy a
trip in no particular direction. When
she started out, week or so after
Christmas, she had no intention OF
ending her travels in Chicago more
than in any other locality ; she would
return home if she could. She lett
| there, she said, OF her own will, and
thought she had perfect right to do
SO. See had met with no trouble
| since her departure until now and
she could not luag,ne how she got
INTO her present fix. She would be
II years old next June. As to the
cause OF her leaving down East
vague reference was made to the cx-
istence OF step ne other. As to love,
or any other foolisness of that sort,
it was perfectly preposterous. She
was not susceptible, nor was she pur-
suing-llke a Nemesis, anybody who
had wronged her or her family. Her
sisters, she was rcioiced to state, were
well married, and her family was
eminently respectable. To spare
them modification she desired her
name should not DO known Ia her
time she had been in lots Of places,
among others the Boston Museum
and at Cape May She was not
afraid Of any question. that were
gentiemanly. 1t she was disguised
in mems clothes, it was nobody's
business where she got them. She
didn't steal them, at all events Who
the girl is is mystery. but the OBJ.
,ject of her trip is evidently nothing
else than love of adventure, main
ly due to too much stepmother.-
Superintendent Washburnl Twill :ele-
graph to her family when he can as
certain who they are and where they
live. lie took the girl home with
him last night.