The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-05
Merry GIRL IN TROUSERS,
GRAMS POLICEMAN'S REVOLVER
AND AIMS 1T AT HIN.
Gun Play Took Place in Police Station
After Her Own Revolver Was Taken
Away--Polioe Think She Intended
TO Give the Weapon TO n Prisoner.


The door of q saloon at Fulton street
and Ashland place, Brooklyn, flew open
with bang early last evening and what
seemed then TO be a good looking young man
half ran, half fell out to the sidewalk. There
was cut on the young persons forehead
which bled badly.
Policeman Green picked up the injured
one and then went into the saloon to see
what had caused the trouble. The bar
tender explained that there had been a
fight. A girl dressed in mems clothes
had been there taking drink at the bar,
said he when an Italian whom he did not
know had said something insulting 10 her.
The girl let fly with beer glass and tho
italian hit her with his fist, While the bar
tender was stopping the trouble the Italian
ran out the back way and the girl In trousers
tumbled ont by the front door. The police
man found her leaning against trolley
pole In front OF the saloon.
Guess you will have TO come along with
me under arrest" said he. -You are a
woman and you've go5 no business with
those buds on.
"All right she answered. Il had q
right to wear them, but ii you want to ar
rest me. go ahead
Tho girl was taken 10 the Classon avenue
police station. She was pretty and had
figure that the baggy I'll fitting masculine
attire could not altogether disguise. Her
hair and eyes were black and her cheeks
red. The sergeant opened his eyes when
he saw her and heard Green's explana-
ton.
Detective Keelan took the girl to the
patrolmens room and questioned her
While no was doing so he noticed her
fumbllng In an inside pocket OF her coat,
grabbed her hand and decided to search
her. even II there wasn't n matron about.
He found revolver with every one of
its six Chambers loaded. That was the
only weapon she had. The searching
made her mad and she struggled while
Keelan was going through her pockets
Then she told the sergeant that she
wanted TO go into another room for her
examination. She walked into the SER
geants' room alone.
Keep your eye on that girl. She looks
Hke she would do anything. There's a
revolver and nightstick in my drawer.
Watch her 10 zee that she does not get
hold Of hem. said The sergeant 10 Eaelan
Keelah entered the room just In time to
run his nose against a revolver The girl
had heard what the sergeant said, had min
10 the drawer, snatched the weapon and
WAS waiting for Keelan when he went In.
The detective wasted no time. He made
football tackle, catching the gin around the
legs and throwing her 10 the floor. shs
fought hard, but he overpowered her and
took away the revolver. After while shs
quieted and told the police her story.
Her name. she said. was Mary Harris,
and she lived at AIS Flushing avenue. About
six months ago her sister Fanny was sent
to Jail for trying 70 kill o man who had as
saulted her Since that time, she said,
she had been trying 10 get her sister out OF
jail. In womens clothes she had been
refused admittanoe, SO she thought she
would put on masculine dress to see II she
could get TO Fanny.
She thought that il she could get re-
volver and an overcoat to her sister, Fanny
could ge; ont Of Jail by herself, When the
detective asked her what Jail her sister
was in she said she thought II was Hay
mond Street. She put on mons clothes
the day before. she said TO get accustomed
to them.
She was looked up on charges OF carrying
concealed weapons and appearing on tbs
streets in mems clothes and then the de-
teotives Investigated the story. They
found her name and address were trus
enough, but that sho was married to
seventy-year-old Italian named Antonio
Harris with whom she had quarrelled often.
Recently the old man had her arrested
for abusing him. They learned that she
was In the habit Of wearing mems clothes
and that she got into figh; in the saloon at
Flushing avenue and Ashland place with
u bootblacS whom she knew.
The police are looking for that boot
black because they believe they can find
out from him just whom the girl was going
to call on at the Raymond Street Jail. There
are a number Of Italians locked up there
and the detectives think that Mrs. Harris
Is Interested in one Of them and that she
was trying to help him break jail. The
husband limited at that pretty strongly
The story she told OF her sister was found
to be "A myth from beginning 70 end, but
she was undoubtedly on her way to the
Jail, the detectives learned.