Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-10-17
PASSED FOR A BOY
VERMONT YOUNG WOMAN LEAVES
HOME AND DONs MALE
ATTIRE.
GETS A JOB As AN OFFICE BOY
RUNS ERRANDs AND AROUsEs NO
SUSPICION AS TO HER
SMOKES c'GARfrTfs Ikea bos
But SHE LOAFs AROUND HER
FORMER HOME AND is RECOG-
NIZED.
SMOKES CIGARETTES Ikea Box
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New York, Oct. 11.-Dressed In boys
clothing. Miss Myra Morgan, twenty
year-old woman Of Heartwellville. VT,
IAN Away from home three weeks ago.
She came to this city and obtained a Sit
uation as an Office boy with downtown
firm. So we'll did she carry out her part
that during the week in which she held
her place running errands and making
herself useful around the office, She
aroused no suspicion as to her sex, and
had she not made the mistake of spend
ing her evenings in the neighborhood
where her family lived until two years
hgo. and consequently being recognized,
she might still be masquerading as boy
and drawing a salary Of So a week.
Charles Morgan, the father of the girl,
praeticed as a physician in Harlem for
n.any years. His last address before he
moved from this city was One Hundred
and I'wenty-fourth street and Madison
NGvenue. About two years ago he gave up
\his practice and bought an interest in a
)iotel in Heartwellville.. Three weeks ago
Myra disappeared.
As am Office Boy.
Two or three days later boy, appar-
entity about sixteen years old, walked into
the offices of the Fl. w. Johns Chemical
Manufacturing company, at 100 William
street, and asked for job.
The boy seemed so respectable and SO
anxious tor work." Charles E. Horton,
ore of the managers of the company, said
to-day, that l engaged him. asked
him for a reference and he gave me one.
out ii / remember rightly We did not
write to the reference. We did not take
the trouble, because he was a bright.
,rNIy haa da1 1itt1
oughly honest in every way.
"Ife worked well and was quick in run
ming errands ana we were thoroughly
Satisfied with him. but after being with
us about week he said he was going to
visitl a sick sister in Vermont. and asked
Us il we would keep his place open for
him. told him could not promise that.
and litter leaving the office that night he
aevertshowed up again. A few DAYS after
ward y was informed that the he was
She md that our industrious office hoy
was Il young woman belonging to very
respectable family Nobody could have
guessed her real sex. She looked a hoy
and acted as a boy except that she was
a little, shy
Smoked Cigarettes.
To MIR Horton the girl gave Myron
Morgalh Us her name. Working in the
same oftlcA was clerk r;med Townsend,
who had known her and her parents when
they lived in Harlem. He was struck by
the Resemblance of the new office boy to
Myra Morgan, and also by the similarity
Of the names. He hesitated to mention
what was in his mind until he had some
thing more tangible to go upon. The OPP
portunity came at the beginning of last
week. Hel was walking with a friend in
Harlem who also knows the Morgans
we'll, when they met the new "office boy"
strollinss sElong fthe street with another
youth and smoking a cigarette with that
abandon Which only office boys and dis
trict messengers seem able to acquire
Townsend mentioned his suspicions to his
Friend. anM together they questioned the
boy IA
She quicl NY broke down, and confessing
her identify promised to return home
N Ne day she left her employment and
'etu1 /" t Vermont: