The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-21
From the Seattle Times.

From the Seattle Times.
 %HIS is the tale of a Seattle girl
 (0 who dresses like man, poses
 continually as a man, and for whom two girls have ended their lives, when they found they were madly in love with one of their own sex. Poison ended the life of one; the other turned upon herself the bullet of a revolver. But the girl who has caused these tragedies lives on. Often the officers of the law take her in hand, for she is regarded as menace to society. But she soon regains her liberty and is again playing the game she likes so well. The name Nell Pick erell is one familiar to the police far and wide. To her mother this girl is Harry"
 q always played with the boys, and wanted to be one of them,' this girl once confided to a friend. As rule she talks little about herself-so wise has she grown on the score of keeping her own counsel. 'I did not look like girl; did not feel like a girl. I seemed to have nothing III common with my own sex. My hair was short and coarse My shoulders were broad and square like a mans. The lines
 
 a little broader than a man's-that was about the only distinguishing feature
 "so 1t seemed impossible to make my self a girl and, sick at heart over the thought that would be an outcast of the feminine gender I conceived the idea or making myself man, and mingiing With men as one of them. l put on mems clothing, and have not discarded 1t since, though now I am almost "A years old. will never go back to the conventional style of dress; that would make my life so unbearabie that I could not stand It. Better anything than that"
 The early years of Nell PiclSerells life were spent in small village near Seat tie. Her father was an old soldier, and then circus "spieler," travelling over the country as the ticket barker in front Of a side show Her mother has always been her closest friend and 1t is sEe who comes to the front for the man-daughter when difficulty arises. In the family is brother who suffered severe injury in street-car accident some years ago. Mrs. Pickerell now lives in comfortable home she owns on Warren avenue
 Even with all her varied experiences more remarkable In their way than those of any other girl in the country-Nell Pickerel looks upon life as more or less of a joke. Again and again she finds herself behind iron bars but she emerges serenely, usually through the efforts of her mother, who would sacrifice anything for the strange creature that once nestled at her breast.
 The girl gets genuine pleasure in gather ing to herself the affections of trusting girls who see In her an object of passion ate admiration shd stands tall and straight, dresses with care, has features that might be called handsome in a man, though not pretty in a woman, and one might pass her again and again upon the street without suspecting her true nature or the havoc she has played among women.
 The first of her victims to end her dis appointed life declared her infatuation knew no bounds. She was madly, rap turously in love with the attractive "Harryv Livingstone. The girl in mans garb played with the misguided membef of her own sex as an angler with big speckled trout, until at last the secret was whispered in her ear. Her life seemed worth nothing when she learned the truth.
 q love you, Harry, even, though you have been to me living le," she cried, and shot herself to death.
 The second victim, within a short space of a few weeks, hurled herself upon the rocks of destruction to the siren song of this woman who plays with life and death Like wreclSer upon the beach, she placed false beacon lights upon the shore to lure upon the treafherous sands the ships that sail the angry seas. Hazel Walters felt the lure of the girls false personality,