The sun., 1891-01-28
MISS BREASTS LONG BRAID.
n rs CUT OFF, AND SHE GETS GOOD
LOOK AT THE ROBBER.

Have Been schooisiris-It Looks Now
as ir he Has = Woman Confederate.
The man who has robbed several Brooklyn
schoolgirls OF their hair. and vile has terror
ized about oil the girls In that city, found his
fifth victim on Monday morning. She Is Ger
truds Breast. tho eseventeen.year-old daughter
OF Thomas c. Preast OF 1853 st. Marks place.
she attends Public School Is in Third avenue
and Schemcrhorn street. Two OF the previous
victims attend the same school. she rs an un-
usually pretty girl. small for her age. and very
Rirlish in her habits and actions. She had tie
flnost head OF hair In the school since iittie
Lulu Hcwitis leautiful blnok locks wore
stolen two weeks ago. Lulu Howtt's hair was
the pr do OF the school,
Gertrude breasts hair hung far below her
waist when It was not braided. 1t was liSht
brown and thick rs thick could DO. she usu-
ally wore It In two braids down her back.
sometimes she made a single braid OF 1t. and
then It reached down to her hips and was ns
thick as ones wrist Two weeks ago. just
about the time that Lulu IIewitts hair was
stolen. she noticed toll man who stood on tho
northeast corner OF Fourth avenue and
St. Marks place. Just few doors from
her own homo. and watched her. She
is timd. any way. and she especially
didn't like this mans looka When she got
home she told her stcpmother about him. For
several days she noticed the same man stand
ing In the same place whom she left her
homo TO 20 to school. and he always looked
sharply at her. He watched her away UP tho
street. She had good chance to study him.
IIe was little above the average height and
ot medium build. lie had decidedly untn-
teresting face, o blond mousiacle aud dark
eyebrows. He wore q blue peajacket. dark
trou. crs, and derby hat. Thrte or four days
nfter she first noticed him she spoke again 10
her stepmothsr about him.
well. Gerty." sad the stepmother. "you be
careful OF your braid. Mark my words. he's
either after that or has other designs. and you
Just keep out OF his way and be careful"
Miss Breast did us she WAS bid and avoided
tho man as much as she could. He was always
at the corner. however. lie never spoke to her
or offered to do her any harm. and 40 she got
n little used to him standing there. One morn
ing II week ago lie followed her around to the
schoolhouse. which is Ave blocks from the cor
ner. That morning she was a little frightened.
and she told her school friends aoout him.
They joked with her, and told her to look out
or she won!d loso her hair. Last Friday Prin-
cipa Fsl,er OF the school was walking through
tho classroom. Sbo had her hair in one braid.
He took hold OF 1t and said:
| "Gerty. YOU should look out for that; some
ono will steal it,
"Oh. no. they won't" she answered. I'm
not afraid"
School opens at o'clock. To get there in
| time. and nj % to have littlo time to talk to
| the other girls. Miss Breast usually started
| from the house ut $3.50 o'clock On Monday
morning she started few minutes before that
hour Tho man with the blond moustache wns
standing in his place. She paid no attention to
walk the man started uftor her. and hy walking
fast ca"sh, up with her In az, moment nom NE ne
1t was less Than a minute atterward whom
sounned like tho click OF u pair OF shears, She
was frightened hall oui Of her Wits Her braid
ing. TnrninE half way around sue got u LOOK
! M the nun square IN the lnce. He had black
Toa Teat,1 on his ,are strairht otherwise hs CORE
with Inc blond mous.achc. She is sure he is
He turned and ran un Fourth avenue, sSsaa A. 4.
tho same instant woman who wore dark
her he",L nprrared. Where sle came ,ir nm the
Eirl did not notice. The woman plcked up a
ana handing to tho ri ih!enrH M girl ,. saia NO.
The erl rep In to her stepmother and told
her what he'd hapnsnssd; She was % nervous ana "a
nF Fl. ea sSysS tn in hs hoqfs 9o
story to her teachcr and her schooImates and
M Il The @arf Sa: o to msd hs
@ 10 hsSs 1s5 y;
swors lie " Quill make short work OF the man L
he could catch him: Ne As was sue he could
lion il lie CHANGED to see him. He WAS GO
to lis Wiz s1 sS Sa hs I as bs,sr poss nss
and ihen tho matter was dronIed
Mnt Ine a. nshhf wnsn men, reporter
wnH n wens to he Bosen Ns"r street ice sa
lion with it, Detective REYNOLDS went right
t. me h0nee tn & n1 M
ndow. lie got description Of the mnn and
at: "Sok M morning was ent
tendeht, C*mpbei took personal charge q the
:as,. lilo heard he 4; ory Of the he girl. and then
Keen u specinl watch Tor mon answering tho
iessrrn sven e also eass fosea iIco orders
Noon n Go H said: :''''V. 1885, ~ " " '''''
Eysry man on tho Hro9ksn snc noSe force is
in This, ease. w, got girls nt my own. and I
hoy la s. snSp ss 7 nnm nn mGP hs "s s hs
nth case Of the KIND that has happened. and it
g" We hSse Ws baS "sen be-
ihr i man. m In ali tho Of her cases he succeed cd
in getting away wthout, the girls seeing
en 4" ,a H nn man n ls fne to and
With ali inc precnuticn we ha's taken to get
this fellow nov | hd,diy see M how we can p miss mi
him. II won ueulluN LOT UnybOuy VINO
looks ut all like him TO cut up any monkey
shines for he will surel he arrested; II tho
girl had only screamed Yesterday the man
would have been caaght. Thele wns police
man not iRr nl.
SURPRISED hecense Miss Breast didn't scream.
1t wasn't the nature of timid girls who were
snrpii-ed in ihnt way:
Trinoiral Foli-r "f the school issued a sort oi
general o! der yesterday TO AL the girl pupils
who worr their hair down their backs or In
braids. In their way to aud from school here-
aiter they must wear 1t coils securely faS-
tened; They may lot It down after they got to
scno, Miss Breast is unfortunate. because
she lives in a neirhborhood OF unbreveIs s.
Many nitLe pe;;pie who live in the ne!Rhbor:
!hey think sue Gu! OF her. own huir.
They are a'!nd TO, say IL on their
with THk suN rspor,,er, yesY,es.day they said
story Was not rue. The polire 10 not doubt
It's truth. schoo! prineipal FslteF ssid there
true. He told the story t The reporter yester-
h" ca ed in Miss Breast and she repeated 1t.
Her hair, sh. said, had reached below her