The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-30
MISS WILLIAMS, THE BURGLAR
ALSO TIE CRACK SWIMMER AND
BRONCO BUSTER.
I'm q BelibOy, she says. when the New
YOFk POhoe Ashland 80 she was,
Onco-Caught ~ Lakewood Going
Up a Ladder Into a House by NlEht.

tective brennan brought into town yester-
day. Even at Headquarters where they
ars accustomed 10 the odd fish Of the human
race, they stopped 20 stare.
brennan had In tow a girl OF about p,
broadshouldered. deepchested girl, who
walked with a free-hipped stride and
carried her shoulders like a puglist. Over
q firm, strong neck she had a tanned face
rather handsome and shot with warm
color. Her dogsdn gloves turned back
over her hands, showed two heavy wrists
with thick cords She was dressed in a
short skirt, high laced black boots, a
red sweater and a polo hat. Except for
the hat she looked like a girl champion just
on the links. .-.s
She's girl champion in a good many lines,
This Edna Williams. Il Is said that there Ia
no better amateur swimmer among women
IN these parts On the Zoe, she's an express
train, and in the saddle cyclone She plays
b very pretty game OF golf, and can hit like
} steam hammer On top OF that, II three
bharRes and an indictment hold, she's cool.
daring burglars seoond-stOry worker as
we'll as q sneak.
This Edna Williams has been puzzle and
b delight in various parts Of New Jersey
bver since she ran away from home at Long
Branch six years ago. Her parents told her
that they'd stood for her being tombo Y
bEhen she was little, but that grown girl
bf 10 ought to have some dignity. They
bdded that IL she intended 70 60 skating
every night, she might as well c1it out home
altogether.
An right, III cut out home was Ednas
answer. The next week found her waiting
on table at a hotel in Lakewood, with all
her evenings and most Of her afternoons
free for athletics.
She never wanted for company. grl
who can skate as Edna can is IN demand
among the village youth Of Lakewood or
any other town. She used 10 ride, too,
even in those days. They used to wondtr
how she got the money she spent for horses
h the town livery stable.
One of her doings is history in Lakewood.
AT that same livery stable they made bad
bargain In horseAesh. In bunch Of horses
from the West, they bought slim two-year-
old bronco mare not more than half broken.
She would walk like a lamb in the halter,
but she was fire and lightning under the
paddle. The stablemen could ride her
-sometimes-but they never dared 70 rent
her out for fear Of damage suits
Edna, in her divided skirt, wandered in
one day to get horse The plains terror
was standing there, ssdded and bridled.
They were about 10 take her out for exer-
cise. Edna liked her looks.
Il want that horse. said Edna.
NO, you DON'T said Ed McGann, the
head stableman.
Il don't5' said Edna Before any one
knew what she was about she had vaulted
from the ground 10 the saddle. Stimuli
taneously the plains terror rose on her
hind legs and beat the air, described a
curve and landed on her forefeet, and was
out Of the stable like a shot. The next
thing Ed Mccain saw clearly was a cloud
Of dust travelling like whirlwind down
the road The stablemen saddled up and
tried tofollOW, but the lead was too great
They came back and waited for bad news
Two hours later a meek and lathered
roan bronco cantered back up the road,
still bearing Edna. She pranced Up TO the
stable, hit her steed a final clip with the
riding whip and remarked, as she vaulted
from the Saddle;
"Huhl II was easyl'
She drffted out Of Lakewood after a while.
She bopbed up as town wonder In various
parts Of New Jersey-always the athletic
wonder in skating rowing, swimming or
sghatever game she tried. She used to
travel with the town boys and delighted
20 beat them at their own games Girls
had no use for her, nor she for them. Some
times In these wanderings she worked in
a hotel but often she boarded and was re-
puted 10 have an independent income.
There's a story which may OF may not
have anything 20 do with Edna Williams
about a bellboy who worked two summers
ago In a hotel at Atlantic City. He was a
good bellboy, although little fresh. In
the hours OF ease which even bellboys get
other boys, and the way he could trim q sail
and handle an oar was a marvel He would
never 90 IN swimming with them, though,
and he also drew the line at baseball
One day Ed-that was his naIne-got gay
with one OF the other boys. The offended
boy hooked Ed on the jaw and there was a
fight. Ed was blind. blazing mad. He
Jumped in swinging both hands 'vildly.
The other boy ducked and countertd full
on Eds-chest. The effect was surprising
Ed gave a wild screech and collapsed.
After the investigation which followed the
new bellboy left In hurry.
When Miss Williams applied for job
Last summer as swimming teacher 70 q
hotel at Asbury Park her hair was shorter
than II used 70 be, In her new place sire
was an immediate, unqualified success.
The guests used 10 gather on summer after
moons toapplaud her swift, 1.-THE dives from
Nomanship. Certain guests, who care
more for coed drive than for social position I
In a partner, usedto take her kolhng morn \
inRssl.-It- n said-that a gihGed youth from
New York got gay with Edna on one OF
these morning two-ome5, and that he carried J
b patch over his eye for a week afterward
7 The hotel closed for the summer. Edna
was in and out OF Lakewood all winter.
Whenever she swung into the village with
khat man stride OF hers II was; 49,.
I Hey. Edna. wHnto 60 skatin' to-nightl'
from a dozen doorways, and:
I'm on, Kid" from Edna.
Il was a week ago Friday when another
hide 10 Miss Wilams's sufficiently remark
able career began TO dawn on the public
~ Lakewood. In the sti ly watcher a
Lakewood cop caught sight Of a ladder
9eading up TO the second window Of Browns
boarding house. He waited Developments.
in a minute he saE girl go up II like
lat He captured the approaches to the
ladder and hailed her. She came down
peacefully He hauled her into the III ht
and discovered that he had Edna Williams,
the town ph epom.
Chief OF Police Beehe gave her the third
degree next Gay. Without much hesita-
ton, in fact with some pride, she owned
up TO the theft Of some fUrs In Newark
and admitted also that she had stolen $500