Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-04
MADE A PRETTY MAN
Jennie Scott DoffS Her Dress
and Dons Masculine
Attire, but Is
BETRAYED BY HER WALK,
The Girl Was on Her Way to Visit
Old Playmates in Jersey.
WANTED TO SEE HER LOVER AGAIN
Fan Against an Old Acquaintance in Jail,
Warden McAleese.
BETRAYED BY HER WALK.
WANTED TO SEE HER LOVER AGAIN
Fan Against an Old Acquaintance in Jail,
Warden McAleese.
A MASQUERADER MAY GO TO MoRGANzA

Jennie Scott, pretty little blonde of IS,
is in the county Jail for wearing mems
clothes several times too large for her. and
the good people of the West End are all
worked up over the finding of a bundle of
womsn's clothing near the mouth
of Fo1's coal pit, short dis
tance from the end of the city
line. The connection between the two cir
cumstanees will be readily understood
when it is stated that the female attire had
been worn by Miss Scott, as she called her
self, until she dropped it to don the mascu-
line trimmings As far as can be learned,
the girls object was to join her lover in
New jersey, from where she originally
came.
Constable Arthur Fee, of the West End,
observed what appeared to be a boy skulk-
ing along in the shadows on West Carson
street on Saturday midnight. The figure
was clothed in new pair of blue overalls
and jumper jacket of the same material
The evident effort of the figure to keep in
the shadows on the dark, unused side of
the street convinced the officer that an in
vestigation would be proper. He followed
and hailed the mysterious figure, but receiv-
ing no reply stepped up and laid hand on
its shoulder.
She Msde a Boyish Bluff.
His repeated demand for information was
answered by badly simulated masculine
voice requesting him to attend to his own
business, but the voice was so palpably
feminine that the officer decided he had
caught a masquerade. He led the
figure to the nearest street light
and scrutiny of the features
ccrroborated his frs. impression. The
clothing was masculine, but the face was
young woman's beyond a doubt and
pretty, saucy one at that. The blue jacket
which the young lady wore was so much
too large for her that it revealed plump,
white neck that was itself enough to reveal
her sex, while the crown of a little soft hat
she wore was bulged out with wealth of
blonde hair coiled tightly on top of her
head, that gave her ludicrous appearance.
The girl refused to talk and Constable
Fee walked her up to Alderman Madden's
house for further investigation Alderman
Madden talked to,the girl in kindly way
and she seemed to,be affected by it, for she
told him a story that would interest any
man.
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She said her name was Jennie Scott; that
her home was at Abscon, Doaty's Mills
Postofice, y. j., near Atlantic City, and
that she had come to Pittsburg from that
place two months ago. Since coming here
she had been employed a domestic at the
house OF John Caldwell, on Bates street, but
had grown honiesick to get back to
ler relatives and her lover, and, hav-
ing no money, decided to don male
ATTIRE e and endeavor to beat her
way back, on freight trains. In explaining
low she had got out she told an ingenious
story OF how She had waited until the Cald-
well family left for the theater, when she
followed, came down town, bought her blue
suit of oyeralls for a dollar, and 50-cent hat
at a Market street store, then returned to
Oakland, burned her own clothing in the
kitchen stove and uonned her adopted
costume.
~ took a Ducuesne car for the city and
noticed the men looking at me and smiling,
but thought it was because looked so much
like farmers boy and felt safe. i walked
down to the Point bridge and was just going
along the street when this man stopped
ne, she concluded breaking into tears, land
] think it's real mean you won't let me
alone"
Became a Guest of Warden McAleese.
Alderman Madden was deeply interested
in the story, but felt the necessity for further
investigation and, though he disliked to do
it, decided to send the young girl to jail un-
til he could make some inquiries. Consta-
BILE Fec procured buggy ana conveyed her
TO jail, where she was placed in one of
Warden McAleese's s most substantial apart
1nents.
Early yesterday morning the Warden in
passing through the Jail noticed his new
guest and her strange attire Her face struck
him familiarity. Calling her out into the cor
ridor in the light he looked at her closely
for a moment and then gave her a start by
pleasantly inquring: How are you this
morning, Roses?''
The girl colored, but otherwise retained
her nQnOSnre and in the most innocent wa
imaginable answered the question by asking |
what the Warden meant by calling her |
Rose Her GOODNESS rather deceived him
but he thought he could not be mistaken |
and said: "Why, you are Rose Peterson, are |
you not? Surely you're the girl semitic the |
Reform School three years ago."
At first she denied but finally admitted |
the Warden was right, and then size began |
to tell long story about how she happened |
TO be in her present plight. The Warden's |
memory proved to be the best, however,
and before long he stopped her and told her |
some facts he Lad learned about her when |
she had previously been thrown into his |
company. |
Deserted by Her tepfather.
The substance of it all was that the only |
truthful points in the girls story were those |
relating to her home and her lover. Although |
she claims to be p, the girl is only |
Is. Her parents are dead, her father |
having been a hotel keeper at Salem, Ohio, |
Is years ago and died there. Her mother |
returned to New Jersey, was married again |
10 q man named Adams and seven years SUBJ |
sequentlv died in a New York hospital |
Adams deserted Rose and her only sister, q |
few years her senior, in New York. Her Sis /
ter was taken by a New York family and |
Rose was taken by her grandmother, Mrs. |
Annie kreitzman, who was tolerably we'll |
to-dO.siving at Abscon, n. j.
Her grandmother took an interest in the /
little girl and sent her to Ocean City to a /
private school, but six months there sufficed |
and the girl ran away, coming to this city |
about four years ago. Having no other &C |
compishment the girl was forced to become /
q domestic. She first worked at Abels res
raurant on Union street. then with Mrs.
Ryan at EOS Penn avenue, and later with /
Henry Smith, a farmer back OF Cora
opcliS- The girl got in with bad COM
panons after coming here, and one
night about three years ago was ar /
rested by Detective Fitzgerald on Market |
street in company with Annie Connelly,wno
was wanted by the police on several charges
o. larceny. The Connolly woman was sent
10 the workhouse.
Gave the Girl Another Chance.
Inspector McAleese felt that the girl was
not bad, but in order to break her way from
her newly formed evil associations sent her
TO Morganza. She escaped from the institu-
tion soou after, but was recaptured and re-
turned.
From her own story she was only released
two months ago. She insisted that she has
been living in Oakland ever since, but the
finding OF her clothing yesterday morning
on the Washington pike indicates that she
muSt ha We heen living ont I'm that direction |