The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-10-26
IA BRONGHO BUSTER.
MAKES EVENTFUL TRIP TO
LOWER CALIFORNIA AND
PANAMA IN MALE
ATTIRE.

Worked Three Months in Mine
Outdid Gypsies in Crossing
Swamps and Mountains
Arrested for Theft.
San Francisco, Oct 22.-The Ex-
aminer: Pretty as Lillian Russell
and much resembling her in face,
Evelyn Munson was brought back
from Santa Cruz on Friday on a
charge of grand larceny. She is
accused of robbing Frank Carlson
of $3.50 and eight valuable nuggets,
aggregating in moneyed value more
than 5000. The robbery occurred
in the fremont House on Kearny
street on October 11th. She calm
ly admits that she took the valua-
bles, but she denies she is thief.
In an interview Friday night she
said that she took purse from a
sleeping man, believing that it con-
tanned only few dollars. When
she discovered the amountof wealth
she had taken she became frighten.
ed and left the city. She first out
going train she caught went to San
ia Cruz. There che spent most of
her purloined money for clothes,
which we've recovered by the police.
Also upon her was found $192 so,
which she frankly admitted was
part of the stolen money. She also
had the nuggets in her possession
when searched at the city prison.
She told a most remarkable story
of her life in perfect good faith.
She said she does not know where
she was born, but she thinks it oc-
Cured in Amador City in this state
sixteen years ago. When she was
eleven months old she was adopted
by Charles Munson, member OF
the firm of 'Barcley & Munson,
prominent attorneys of Los An.
| geles. About two years ago she
became tired of her foster mother
and started out for herself. A diary
kept of her travels aud experiences
would keep Kipling working for two
years. She started in company
with a girl named Jessie, whose
other name she refused to give be-
cause the latter had since married
The two donned boys clothing and
went to work breaking horses
through the entire peninsula of low
er California. At Las Paz on The
eastern coast of the Gulf of Califor'
MIA they found work, as steamer
hands and crossed to Mazitian, still
dressed in male attire.
Once Jessie missed getting q jot
with horses, and worked for thre,
months in a mine in the state o
Durango. The two girls continued
their journey passed the swamps o
Chiapo and succeeded in crossing g
range of mountains that borders tn
southern end of Mexico, Even gyr
sizes on their jorrnies to Soutl
America fear the range, but the tw'
girls went over them without trou
BILE.
"That trip was the best time
ever had in my life," said Mis-
Munson.
She claims to have worked thre,
weeke in the sands of the Panam,
canal and then she got the Chagre
fever: On her upward trip she act
ed as cabin boy on liner and Jes
sic worked in the stewards depart
ment as a waiter.
Curiously SIZE kept diary at cd,
times and her observations in thi
document go far to prove that he
story of her travels is truthful.
Los Angeles. Oct. 14.-The maj
pranks of Bessie Barcley. the youn
Los Angeles girl, who has mania
for wearing boys clothing and fo
living as boy, have driven tn
wife of her benefactor into he
grave.
Following an attack of nervou
prostration brought on by Bessie
action, Mrs. Barcley, wife of tn
= lawyer who for many years ha
been trying to educate the hair
Drained Bessie, is dead.
Mr.. Barcley himself Is almos
heartbroken, and his partner, Gil
bert D. Munson, whose name tn
girl has employed-at different stage
in her career, is deeply affected b.
the utter failure of the efforts botl
he and his partner have made tt
!, change the girl into u self-respect
Ing woman.
Mr.. Munson said today:
Evelyn Munson, who has beel
arrested at Santa Cruz, Is not my
daughter. The girl is known a
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