The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-29
is IT KLEPTOMANIA?
SCHOOL GIRL LOCKED UP CHARGED
WITH HAVING STOLEN FIVE
DOLLARS
HER FACE WET WITH TEARS

Her Emotion Has no Effect on the
Police, Who Declare That This Is
Rot the First Time Similar Com
plants Have Been Made Against
the Piquant Little ChiId-Rtdes q
Bicycle and SOIicits for Charity.
Lydia Boyle, sometimes known as Lydia
Barton, a school girl twelve years of age,
was arrested yesterday on a warrant
charging the theft Of So. The complain
ant is Charles Kennedy, proprietor of the
Cascade laundry 1t is alleged that the
girl took the money from the cash drawer
The child's bright, piquant face was wet
with tears when she was taken up stairs
to cell, but the police were unmoved
by this evidence of sadness on the part
of the young miss, as they claim other
complaints have been recorded against
the girl which stamp her a dangerous
character. 1t is charged that the child
has frequently been suspected of stealing
and that her alleged methods are cunning
enough and sometimes much more sue
cessful than her years would indicate. Ac-
cording to the police the girl rides about
town on bicycle looking for an oppor-
tunity to steal. Several months ago the
cash drawer at the Portland bakery was
robbed. The police say Lydia Boyle was
the guilty person, though the case was not
taken into court, because it is said to have
been otherwise settled. In this instance
a young girl rode up to the bakery on a
wheel and told the proprietor that the
proprietor of a store several doors away
wanted to see him. When the bakery
man returned the girl was gone, together
with the contents of the cash drawer
More recently the police received a COM
plant from a gentleman at whose house
the girl visited. A valuable silk parasol
had been stolen. The Boyle girl was sus-
pected and detectives visited her home,
but could not find the missing parasol.
Another line of alleged swindling the
child is said to indulge in is to make the
rounds of fashionable residences, repre-
sontIng that she is soliciting for some
charitable object. She is said to nave
made a systematic canvass Of ST. An
thony hill, informing each woman upon
whom she called that she had been sent
to her by some neighbor. In this way it
is alleged the girl secured a neat sum. AS
an evidence Of the young girls shrewd-
ness the police say she did not confine
herself to soliciting wealthy Summit ave-
nue. residents but invaded the tender
loin' district, where her requests for aid
II Is said, met with generous response.
The story Of the alleged theft of the So
from the laundry is that the girl stopped
III the place and asked for drink Of
water Mr.. Kennedy had just received
S. bill in payment for laundry work. He
stepped out of the store for a moment
leaving a young woman in charge. AT
this juncture, it is alleged, the Boyle girl
entered and asked for a drink of water.
MF. Kennedy returned a moment later
and missed the S. from the cash drawer.
An investigation followed, when it was
learned who the Boyle girl was, when
Mr.. Kennedy swore out a warrant for
her arrest The girl lives with her pa
rents at Eleventh and Robert STREETS. Her
stepfather recently took the child to Chief
Of Detectives Schweitzer in connection
with an episode in which she was believed
to have been concerned. After the chief
had exhausted every artiice and even
talked ominously to the child, she defiant
Is remarked:
We'll, you haven't gotten anything out
Of me, why don't you lock me up"
'-ls0ner is d pretty, black
eyed child, with pleasing manners and a
Difference which easily wins unsuspecting
people. She talks intelligently and on
subjects which would seem beyond a
child Of her years. She Will be arraigned
in the municipal court today.