The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-16
MADE LOVE TO
FACTORY GIRLS.
Barnhill Girl Dresses Up In
Male Attire and Gets a Job.
WAS THE BEAU OF THE TOWN
while working In Gosh on and Captured
the Hearts of Several Fair Ladies'
-Unmasked BY Her
Relatives.


A Tuscarawas county girl has created |
great sensation at Coshocton by mas |
querading in male attire and making |
love to the factory girls. special
from Coshocton says:
Miss Mary Fry. who was detected
masquerading in male attire while |
working as a pressfeeder at the factory |
of the Tuscarawas Advertising COM
pany, left for her home at Barnhill,
Tuscarawas county, last evening, ac-
companied by relatives.
While in the mayors office prior to
her departure, the romantic young lady
regaled the reporter with the story of
her adventures since donning masculine
habiliments. The young lady SEEM
ingly viewed her predicament in the
light Of Joke, and took her arrest as
the natural result of the discovery.
ct was born" said she, "in Cadwall-
ader, Ohio, and have been told that my
fathers name was Fred L. Johnson,
and that is why I assumed the name
of Fred Johnson when l came here.
was adopted, I guess, by George Fry
coal miner. who lives at Barnhill,
Tuscarawas county. But he and his
wife never treated me as though I were
their own child. When they would get
mad with me they would tell me that I
wasn't their child, and other people told
me the same.
HAD A LONG NAME.
at have a brother, John Fry, but he
never treated me as he should a sister.
My name is Mary Ann Columbus Fry,
and tell you it pretty nearly ran away
with me before iran away. When any
thing went wrong at the Fry's, it was
always blamed on me. There is a little
boy in the family, and it is as cute as 1t
can be- I have been awful homesick
!, since I came here. and I want to see it.
. "I belonged to the United Brethren
t church at Barnhill, having Joined it
e four years ago, against the wishes of
. my father, who wanted me to be a
i Catholic. was respected and did what
= was right, and all the people up there
f know it,"
?. Last October decided that wasn't
n going to stand the wavs Of the Frys
r any more, and I went to Uhrichsville
S and stayed there two or three days.
L While there I bought these clothes, and
- then came here and applied at the Tus-
q carora factory for work. There I was
e employed to wipe presses and do other
i labor, and finally I was placed at feed
s ing a press I met many people here
whom I had known in Barnhill, but they
did not recognize me. Yesterday l no.
ticed some men passing through the
pressroom, and knew they were after
me. A little later the chief of police
e I guess the chiefs are all big men, came
in with another man and arrested me
Before I left the factory ! kissed two
Of the girls goodby.
~ HAD A SWEETHEART.
= what about my girl? Well, you
# ought to see her." and Miss Fry laughed
ID heartily, and at the same time displayed
1t two rows of pretty white teeth. "Sht
* is Miss Cora Murry, and lives over II
l. Roscoe I telephoned to her when they
= had placed me in prison, and she came
er over to see me at once. oh, she's lad!
Z ike myself, ana L lOlu lleI So' "hSi
10 she called on me at the prison sh'
n didn't say much.
"No, I will not STAY at home. The!
can take me back, but it will not be Ions
until am here again"
Dressed in a double breasted coat
light overcoat and other masculine at
IT tire, her hair parted jauntily at the side
Miss Fry loked every inch a boy, ant
many were the lasses that yearned TO
recognition from the attractive younI
individual. She was exceedingly par
L tial to gay colored neckwear, ant
a scarcely a week passed that she did no
nc visit the haberdasher. Will Lynde,
es popular clothing salesman, tells of tn
ed difficulty he encountered when endeav
or oring to fit Miss Fry with pantaloons
nd The garments that were the prope
ru length were always found to be too mar
row at the hips and waist. Yet, h
never suspected that his customer
form was better adapted to skirts o
bloomers.
LOST HIS PURSE,