The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-12
BEAUTIFUL. BUT WICKED.
NAY COLNIN. PRETTY As A PIC
TtRE. MT A CRIMINAL.
She IL PrecOcious Horse Thief
and Jai,-Breaker.

The female department Of the peniten-
tiary undoubtedly furnishes the most de-
PRAYED types OF humanity. Primarily.
the Partially Of courts and juries for
women characterizes every judicial sys-
TEN OF civilization. says the st. Louis
Republic. and so II must be a depraved
and dangerous woman. indeed, whom a
jury OF Americans will sentence to penal
servitude.
Decidedly the most unique personality
OF the female population OF the prison
Is May Colvin. May is only eighteen
years old. and is a rustic beauty. Dress
her In the gorgeous paraphernalia of
Lillian Russell and she would be more
brilliant beauty than that stage celebrity.
she has great blue eyes and a mass Of
towselled blond hair of Titan tint. Her
form Is luscious-well rounded and plump
and her cheeks are red with the Wig
orous life OF the Ozarks. whence she
came; Her mouth is one that an i'm
questionable artist would go wild over,
with Its cherry-red lips OF sensuous
curves, the whole forming the most per-
feet Cupids bow. And withal May Is a
horse-thief and doesn't deny 1t. Ger
tainly he confinement in the peniten-
tiary has brought out her native beauty,
that must have been blurred or obscured
by her exposure to all sorts OF bad
weather while fleeing over the plains
and mountains OF the Southwest from
officers. or else no jury could have ever
been induced TO give her term in
peison, especially for so common and
piebian an onense as stealing horses.
But May is not only horse-thief. but a
jailJbreaker as well BY her own con
fession. Her feat in breaking from the
jail at Girard. Kan. where she was con-
lined about two years ago for horse
stealing; her escape to Jasper County,
Mo-. and her subsequent capture there
be recalled by the readers of newspapers.
We'll. / have no hard-luck story TO
tell. was the way May greeted the Re
Pds sSks n yhsy made
else In here is innocent. according to
their own statement, but I'm not. I'm
here for stealing horses.
When l heard you were here and
wanted to see me. l thought you were
an officer from Girard Kan, and wanted
to take me back there for breaking out
of jail. I'm glad you are not. but
guess they'll come for me as soon as
my term is out here. which will be in
about fourteen months. II behave my
SELF I'VE been pretty good girl since
I've been here: The reason for 1t.
guess, is that haven't had a chance
to be bad, However, I've so managed
to break the rules az to be put in the
dark room two or three times But I'm
ROlnS 10 DenaNe myself from now OH,
so can ge the benefit of the three
fouyths rule.
II don't know why I've turned out so
bad unless 1t is that 1t was just born In
me. My mother is good woman. only
thirty-five years old now. member OF
the Methodist Church and has been mar
ried three times. She raised me right,
and my father, who is a dentist. was
always kind and indulgent to me. l
went to the public schools in Webb city
until ] was sixteen. and then the devil
ment began to crop out in me. l don't
know why, either.
Nobody ever taught me any wrong.
I'm not like other women, either. in
blaming my downfall on any man. No
body Breckinridged me. But l guess
Charley Creech, my sweetheart, who Is
over on the other side Of the wall for
petit larceny. could tell YOU II he would,
that | was the cause of his going wrong.
Wen get out of this place about the
same time. and II the officers from Kan
sas don't grab me as soon as get out
of the gate l guess I'll join him.