Evening star., 1896-10-23

quainted with her history, "and was inn
Glcated in stage robbeTies In Idaho Ore
gon' washington. Montana and California.
Sne went for many years attired in mans
clothing, with her hair cut short End,
having masculine voice, IL was never
suspected that she was a woman. Her
personality was that of a keen-witted and
desperate man. ready to take any chances
10 gain point. She had a full chest thin
lips, small, piercing gray eyes, which were
quick and restless, and a determined look.
Though her features were coarse, she
was not a bad-looking woman and had a
respectable appearance as a man. She
stood about five feet nine inches was II
medium build, rather angular in FORM and
and snewy man. Strange to saw after
all her rough life her hands were still
symmetrical and more feminine than mas
culine.
full of incidents that would fill a hundred
dime novels with tales of daring deeds yet
with IL is mingled the prettiest bit of ro-
nance OF how her sweetheart sacrificed
himself for her and is now serving out a
life sentence in the San Q lentin prison he
cause of his devotion. He pleaded guilty
10 crime which she claimed she had COM
mitted. She, the guilty one, terrible in
character. was touched by his faithfulncss
and began to muse on the step which he
had taktr for her sake. Wnile thus medi-
tating she was in the prison at Butte md
one day there appeared IN her dark cell
1t was Major HalDin of the Salvation
Army.
That sounds like the voice of ny
mother she said Then and there the
hoarse voice CT the hardened criminal melt
ed away into childish accents, and she
made vow that thereafter she would lead
Christian life, and do ell in her power 10
have her sweetheart relea sed from the Len
itentiary. The conversion of the not ori ous
woman created great sensation all along
the Pacific coast Her sincerity of pur-
pose wen her favor with the police authori-
ties, and they let her alone, although she
had confessed to numerous robberies From
the time she emerged from that pris On,
soon after her conversion, she carried the
salvation banner through the streets of
Portland. Butte, Helena and Ilany other
cities. and shouted hallelujahs with as
much fervor as the other lasses.
The crime for which she almost went to
the penitentiary was that of -obbing a
stage coach near Helena, about six years
ago. She and a man had committed The
robbery and were captured. Ii was while
in prison this time that the officials dis
covered that she was a woman. Her lover,
Archie Niederinshaus. came forward with
a confession. which was believed, the wo-
man and her accomplice were acquitted,
and the lover now languishes in prison.
She made confession herself but IL was
rot believed and she went free"
Major Bovill Of the Salvation Army. who
has charge of the Chicago Woman's Train
ing School. was in San Francisco a little
was converted, and though she did not
the woman, she remembers the case with
much vividness account of the stir
which IL caused on the coast. Shortly af-
ter the woman was converted, Major Hal
pin called on Mrs. Bovill and told her sil
the circumstances Said Mrs. Bovill this
morning:
This was one of the mosT remarkable
changes of which i have ever heard. 1t
created a good deal OF comment because it
turned out that the woman had sucn q
sweet and lovabie character. We talked
about her because the officers had a good
deal of trouble with her. She had been
accustomed to a rowing and rough life SO
long that she did not know how to act
She was SO much like a man. She sat like
a man, and ii was hard to get her to
change. Major Halpin took the woman TO
her nome for some time, because no one
would think of employing her, and she did
not Know how to do anything useful. We
sometimes laughed to ourselves because
she was so clumsy, but We made her think
she was getting along very well L believe
her case was a sincere conversion. / had
rot heard from her for some time