The sun., 1891-01-29
Is THE GIRL ROMANCING! !
THE POLICE CHANGE THEIR MINDS
ABOt-T MISS BREAST.
Detective Reynoids'~ Investigation OF
Rrookiyn's Latest Hair Cutting Case
she Insists her story Is Accurately True
,i,be Rinck Hard TINT WAS on Crooked

brOOkIyn's t0ur SVthnH sANc-
! she Insists her story Is Accurately True
The Black Beard that was on Crooked.
Something like panic has seized the girls
who attend Public School Is in Brooklyn,
| which Miss Gertrude Breast OF 1868 ST. Mark 8
! place attends Miss Breast Is the girl who says
her hair was shipped of last Monday morning
| in 81. Marks place. between Third and Fourth
! avenues, while she was on her way to school.
She is the Fifth Brooklyn schoolgirl who has
had her hair cut OF by some mon, as yot un-
known to the police within six months
In every cnse the outrage was rerpetrated In
broad daylight and in the pubic streets. Three
! OF the i've girls who have thus been assaulted
attend Public School Is. 1t Is not strange.
therefore. that the girls who attend this school
are frightened. Notwithstanding the fact that
the brooklyn police declared yesterday that
! they believed that Miss Breast cut her hair of
| herself. and IL romancng when che says that
n tail uncanny stranger with false beard
| slashed of her luxrriant braid.
| Tho girls have found name for this myste-
! rious hair s,ealer. Tho call him Jack the
| shipper Under this significant title the un-
! known has assumed additional terrors. and
when school assembled yesterday morning
there was hardly braid or a crop Of flowing
hair 10 be seen. Brooklyn girls are Just as
proud of long heavy hair rs girls In every other
mart of the world. and 1t has been the fashion
| with them to wear their hair braided
| But yesterday oven the little girls Of 10 and
| IL years hud their hair hidden under their
win,or caps and hats and looked like dwBrfed
matrons in short Dresses. Principal Felter
d warned all tho girls to wear their hair
done IN in knots. but his warning was not
! necessary. for BROOKLYN mothers read THE
I RuN and were duly careful. Tho boys proba-
bly, enjoyed the only fun there was going
| n zt.x ~. .<-.-
| Run. run" some urchin would shout, jump
| ing into a crowd of girls. here comes Jack the
! Snipper"
The girls walked abroad In rairs and crowds.
never alone. and east frequent glances around
| them. They affected to laugh ut the myste-
rous Jack the Shipper" Gertie Breast was
lion among them. and told her story over and
over many times.
The police are positive that she is romancing.
Cart. Early of the Bergen street station sub
nittee the report of Detec;ive-Sergeant Roy
nolds. who investigated the case with De-
tcctivc-Sorgeant Graham. to SUPERINTENDENT
, Campbell yesterday morning. the SuaerIn-
tendent is satisfied tua, the supposition of the
detectives Is correct. Tho detectives say they
have made exhaustive inquiries in every house
on tho block where the assault is alleged to
haze boon committed and have failed to find
any person who witnessed 1t. or to discover tho
woman who. Miss breast says, picked I'm her
ribbon after tho assault. and advised her to
n hops e eorn aso
body u tho ne ,shborhood, is firmly convin ed
thnt she is romancing. They 20 on to tell the
At n quarter OF Q O'Clock. about fifteen min
ute, after Miss Broast loft home 70, school. sho
ran into Jnmes Curiin's sr ,cery in Fourth nNo-
nuc ana ST. Mark : place. She hnd rasse1 the
grocery short time .,e,s nSfors She i,cs in a
y ha srocery cry an ! tod Mr cHrin M That @ eH'His man
iarti'Miars, Jar and she told tho story related in
| Yesterdays s'l-N. She had seen the man stand
m H1l h Of moente as sshs with sSt
| moustnchr Curtin saws she said he had dark
hair. Then she wont home. lie, descrintion,
| Curtin says, tnli"d exactly with that oi Young
man named Harry White who lives on the op
rosi,e corner and wa; often seen lingering
White and said:
see here. larry wiat do you mean BY fol-
NV Lat arc You +, kin; aSout. anyway re.
piled the young man. Then Curtin told him
that he tailed with Miss hr.ast's desrripion
snirreI on her braid; White n meIiatsly
the ocery until she passed and tnen ran out
and asked her if she accused him OF cutting oil
tho man, aud aided thai the man who cut her
na had .sk Hsyos Mh sys was ,Sa
OF the black Lenrd. She had not m mentoned it
sss the e
iiIhins detail considering the eircumstane;ss,:
i" her d i'm %led n ,exasty With
ee es a the alleged Ss black tsard with the si alleged
to nv he had interviewed. Jennie kahe OF 1898
n Mrts Da %ss abe sa "1a st ss ct
said was following her. and had. alter she lost
nsf so nf b ht told % ss wa Rails Gs II ha So 9Ssn
had cut tn onGh TWO blaidS.
The drto .tives In their house 10 house
in the report who said she had seen Miss
Tr,nst start for school on Monday \ ornng
deteiv"s n S I say that Miss Breast is very init.
mate With G,r! BY shs nan; n, Of hl hiIda Aim
ssr: eSry s %Sr Nen " sTU
!" lhs polics with story that man had en-
aiS Sns %s n"1 aas r. M a TRo
hcry were reported in the rnpers before being
ihnwhnlc DRY yarn. This assault upon Miss
iiroa reached a news'nner reporter beI.rs
Reynolds sees something significant in the fact
lha, liil Ia Almgreen is an intimate friend OF
Tho d,,oct!ye also calls attention to the fact
Used to :iyc IN H.. IAN" s1ck with Heris
attacked by Jack tho Snipper" She was
standing in front Of Grand street shor win
dow yhon, som. man eIippsd of hsr hair; She
got a 1T oi iainc ~ consequence through pub
ii-hc reports THO conclusion Of the report
sors forth tho opinion TINT Miss Breast was
| daz2lnd by ihe id.n Of gel ting notoriety. and
lonGed TO y SO - the heroine Of soma adTen-
| tur" which would reach print. Detective Rey-
| nolds ndd. in II !ost.cript hat hs lives on the
same block ~ Misc Breast and knows nearly
all the school chl iren. He is not surprised at
any. report OF this kind coming up at any
time.
ToI.ce Superintendent Campbell said yes
terday: Il was convinced " hen talked to
So. II All yesterday that an outrage had been
committed. bnt nm nav equally convinced.
investigated this mutter have been submitted:
tna' his is u case Of ronIaneing. II yon will
find many in n!ications Of tho fact 1t also
XII kills Should stand still as Miss Breast says she
did, while q man cut through one heavy braid
You must realize that 1t takes considerable
time t9eut through thick braid q hair: H.
Or er'p more % Sstors p he cut i it through Il Is
h,nrdy likely that she stood stil all tha.
for !. sane man 10 chop off few inches OF n