Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-01-09
JOKE ON JAP"
The Woman" Who Has Given Sheriff
j. N. Stephens So Much Trouble
Is a Man-Identifed by a
Detective as Being Gen
orally Disreputable.

"IneZ HOyt," VINO a D0en IN JAN
in Mexico since the latter part of Oc-
tober, charged with grand larceny, is
a man. The officers in St. Louis,
hearing that there was a ''woman" in
Jail in Mexico charged with robbery,
thought perhaps she might be implica-
ted in the Goldman murder in St.
Louis. A detective was sent up. to
investigate. AS soon as he saw
"Inez" he reported that she, Oh rather
he, was Frank Smith, alias Fife Smith,
alias several other names of both
sexes. During the stay of ''NIiss Inez"
in jail Sheriff Stephens has had a
great deal of trouble. She seemed to
be very dainty about her eating and
a separate apartment of course, mad TO
belooked after for her. The prisoner
has now been put into mems clothing
and is in the cells with the rest of the
men. There seems to be quite a num-
Der of parties who have been accused
Of flirting with "Miss Inezn through
the Jail windows. There is no ques-
ton but that the prisoner will get
a penitentiary sentence. The general
opinion seems to be that he is wanted
for some greater crime than that of
burglary and that he assumed this
disguise to escape. He makes a very
fine female im~personator, at least SO
Sheriff Stephens and his assistants
say. Some of the other prisoners
who were desperately in love with
"Inez" are now kicking themselves.
From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Sheriff Stephens, of Mexico, Mo-,
visited st. Louis Tuesday and inform
ed ChiefHarrigan that he had woman
under arrest in Mexico whom he
thought, from conversations he had
with her, was wanted in st. Louis on a
serious charge. AS she could not be
identified from the description given
by the Sheriff, Detective Cooking was
sent to Mexico the same evening to
find out who and what the prisoner
was.
"Her name is Mrs. Hoyt." said the
Sheriff. "She was arrested on Oct.
% for stealing a gold watch and a lot
of clothes from Hannah Wilson, of
whose establishment she was an in
mate. Pm sure she's wanted in your
town.
"Where is she?" said Cooking.
"Right in line," said Stephens, and
he ushered the detective into an
apartment occupied by a fair-faced
young person, attifed in a silk dress,
diamond earrings, handsome finger
rings and other appurtenances of a
woman of fashion.
The detective grinned and said:
"Hello, Effie!"
"How do you do, Gocking!" re-
sponded the prisoner.
"Do you know herr" said the
Sheriff.
81 rather guess l do" said the de-
t~ective. Then he addressed the prison
er with:
"Well, Effie, old boy, howare your"
"Oh, pretty WE'LL" replied the lat
ter, show did you know me?"
Then Cooking took the bewildered
Sheriff aside and told him that his
mysterious prisoner was of the male
persuasion and that he was no other
than the notorious Frank, alias "Effie"
Smith, whose escapades in st. Louis a
few months ago gained him con-
siderable notoriety and a term in the
workhouse. The Sheriff at first re-
fused to believe the truth of the de-
tective's statement, but the truth was
eventually forced upon him. During
the prisoners incarceration he had
never given the least indication that
he was a man. He will be prosecuted
in Mexico.
The Globe Democrat says: Frank
Smith, after disappearing from this
city a few months ago, has turned up
in Mexico, Mo-, where, according to a
telegram, he practiced the same de-
ception which got him into trouble
here. Smith has the appearance of a
girl. His features, voice, manners
and general bearing are that of a
woman. In October last he was ar
rested in Mexico for robbery and gave
the name of Miss Inez Hoyt. When
one of Chief Desmond's men called at
the Mexico jail last Wednesday he at
once recognized "Miss Hoyt'' as
Frank Smith. In August, 1898, Smith
was arrested while dressed in female
attire, charged with accosting men on
the street. When arraigned in the
Police Court he was dressed as and
appeared to be a stylish girl. Upon
promising to go to the House of the
Good Shepherd the fine was not i'm
posed. Smith, firing of convent life,
disclosed the deception he had been
practicing and was released. He was
arrested several times, and was sent
60 the workhouse for three months,
and at length was compelled to leave
the city.
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