The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-24
GIRL OF NINETEEN BECOMES A
BURGLAR TO GET EVEN WITH
HER LOVER
LEAVES HOME OF FATHER
TO KEEP BACHELOR HALL
Leads an Unconventional Life in Ball
rooms and acknowledgements She
Spurns and, Although Flighty, Was
Not Really Bad-FinaIIy Breaks
Down and Makes Confession.

For pure nerve and reckless disre-
gard for consequences it would be hard
to find the equal of pretty Lizzie Fer
guson, the nineteen-year-o burglar of
Pullman, H., who, to spite disdainful
lover. entered his room while he slept
and emptied his pockets of the $50
they contained.
Lizzie has been a wild girl for some
years, who, beaten by brutal father
and Wretched in a home where drunk
enness kept poverty as star bOarder,
deserted parents and family and cast
herself on the world for living and a
good time. The former she found by
casual work in Chicago restaurants
and the latter the young men were
only too willing to give her on account
of her pretty face and dainty, winning
ways.
Keeping bachelor hall at 1854 One
Hundred and Fifteenth street, she was
her own mistress and had to ask no
ones leave before setting off to balls
and parties or entering resorts where
music and the festive bowl kept her
happy for a season. Everywhere she
went she was the center of attraction,
for, although light hearted, frivolous and
silly, she was not, so the police say,
a downright bad lot. She knew how
far she wanted to go and nothing could
persuade her to go further. At the
same time she quickly acquired a taste
for strong liquors and the places where
they were sold and became a frequent
visitor at more than one place where,
many men are afraid to enter.
In the course of a short life she has
made more than one conquest, but
neither tears, entreaties nor threats
could move her. She was free and
would remain free. So things went on
till she fell in with ]. H. Donnohue,
who runs a saloon at 240O One Hundred
and Fifteenth street, with whom she
quickly became hopelessIy infatuated,
but who, for his part, could see little
he cared much for in the Eighty dis
regard for the conventions Miss Fer
gusOn so energeticaIly displayed 1t
may be that he did not believe it pos
sible to play so diligently with fire and
not get burned, or it may have been an
absolute absence Of susceptibility on
his part; at all events he rejected her
advances and aroused her ire.
Angry as Spoiled Child.
Accustomed from childhood to have
her own unrestricted way, and accus-
toned to men falling down and wor-
Shipping her whether she wished it or
not, she could not bear the cold refusal
of this one man to make her his wife.
Other women, more controlled, if as
deeply hurt, would have borne defeat
in silence if with no good grace but
to her such a course was impossible
She quarreled bitterly with the man
and then went among her friends
threatening to get even with him. To
Dollie Givern, with whom she lived,
she told the whole story, and in telling
it displayed all the ungovernabIe an
ger of a spoiled child. She strobe I'D
and down the room as she talked, with
her plump little hands clenched tightly
and her quick, nervous steps betraying
her emotion in every movement
Miss Givern knew her welI-few
could know her better-but even she
did not think the lovers quarrel would
lead to anything more serious than
little metaphorical and possibly actual
mud-thrOwing. Last time Lizzie Fer
guson had trouble over man this was
the way she got over 1t. She was six
teen then and well in love with the
beau of a friend. The two girls quar-
relied and Lizzie went round at night,