The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-06

| thing, but if there isn't anything of
that kind to get clew from | have to
study pretty hard. AS for the descrip-
tons that folks give us, do you rea-
| lie how widely what is known as a
| general description applies? Should
you be sent out to arrest confidence
man or regular crook, described as
| being short, dark'-or light, as the case
| might be-'well dressed, with a gray
| lsh mustache and a habit of smiling
appreclatively and paternally upon
young ladies' you might mistakenly
| run In, instead of the person for whom
you are searching, several hundred of
our reputable solid citizens who would
fill the bilr perfectly as far as listed
| personal appearance goes.
Ihere are only a certain number of
| kinds of eyes, noses, mouths. complex
ions, hair and figures to divide among
| all the millions of this worlds inhabi-
| tants, and they are necessarily given
out in blocks. as you might say. 1t is
| the way we use these very much alike
| gifts-our mannerisms and expressions
which individualize US, and these are
| the hardest of all things to describe
! recognizably, and for this reason the
| descriptions of missing or wanted per-
sons which are furnished to the police
| are generally more confusing than help
| full.
| Women and girls are harder to hunt
up than men and boys, because they
are more skillful about simple DISCUSSES
and are generally clever about choos-
ing their hiding places. I guess they
put me on to that work when I first be-
gan just to kind of discourage me and
| take my pride down. But it didn't
he said with conviction.
Not entirely, anyway, but then it is
mostly luck, after all, that helps me
out. I've had girls I was looking for
| walk right up to me on the street and
ask me to direct them somewhere and
then I've put in days and nights hunt
| ing for others who were hidden almost
under my nose. The youngest truant
I ever discovered was Ethel EASTWOOD,
5year-old baby who, it was claimed,
was kidnapped by Bertha Franklin.
who was known as Big Bertha, NO. q
and the oldest was Mrs. Lamont, who
was hunted up at the instigation of her
| son-in-law, Thomas Jones of Dogtown,
| Butte county-not because he loved
| her, but because he accused her of hav-
| ing stolen two saddles and bride from
| his barn just previous to her disac-
pearance. OF the young girls who leave
their homes the majority are led away
by false promises built on a founda-
ton Of Economically secret love affairs
| Street flirtations,' INDUCED in at first
4 in a spirit of innocent fun by groups
of pretty school girls. are the source
! some of the worst crimes that blacken
the police annals of our large cities
There are girls, however, who seem to
| be naturally incorrigible and who de-
sert their homes not because of outside
persuasion, hut simply for the reason
that they chafe under the bonds of re-
spectability and long for adventure and
| excitement and personal freedom. To
this class belongs pretty Maria Knud
son. who at the age Of is stole $500 from
her mother and went to oregon, where
she Joined the Salvation army, in which
she was a, shining light vocally and
| prayerfully until her brother hunted her
up and brought her home, where she
was freely forgiven and lovingly rein
| stated. There was no man in the case
whatever, but the girl was one of the
kind who hated quiet home life. and SO
after eight more months of monoton-
Gus misery, she cut open the back of
| her mothers trunk with a Ratchet,
| took out $40 and-vanished again. T
| found her living quite alone in sec
ond-class but thoroughly respectable
| lodging house and with only 50 in her
possession, the rest of her plumber hav-
ing been spent for cheap jewelry and
solitary but presumably soul satisfying
| hack rides.
"Three years ago Kate Flood was
| SoSSAt
| and she begged so hard not to go up to
the city hall in the patrol wagon that
| I took her On a car instead, and just as
we got to Leavenworth street she jump
ed off and pulled me after her when
| hung on to her dress We both fell fiat.
| and 1 lay in front of another car and
thought / was a dead man for a min
ute, but I managed to get out of the
way just in time and keep my prisoner
| too.
Now. as to what makes so many run
away from home-sometimes it's one
| thing and sometimes it's another.
Most people ar too easy and careless
with their girls and let them run
around too much with other girls with
cut any older person to look after them
And then again others are too hard
| with them and keep them so close that
they're bound to break out. AS for
| women-Pve known some to leave the
best of homes and take up with tramps
and gamblers and morphine fiends and
worse, and I've known others to give
UP their lives shaving for worthless
husbands and ungrateful children, and
| even dread going to heaven because
they would have to leave these burdens
behind.
"Women and girls are puzzing,' con-
Guided Detective Anthony.