The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-09-11
BOY UPSE1S
STORY Of WOMAN
IN TROUSERS
DESERTED HER LITTLE NINE
YEAR OLD BOY AND NIYS-
TERlOUSLY DISAPPEARED.
'inds Missing Mother in Jail Posing
As the Devoted Hobo Wife of
"A Man Named Hall.

man Named Hall.
My God, man, do you know what
I is to have nothing to eat and only
en- pennies in your little boys bankq
i!en maybe you know why 1 put ON
Sn clothing and went out after
-'lsnt with Mr. Hall"
IL Was only woman's enigmatical
answer walled from a cot, in the ma
tfons department of the city iail
Denver, Monday, but it told more
-.seiy tAap "r.u.en Volumes, per-
aps, why Mrs. Rose Evans is held
prisoner, viewed with suspicion by
hlei, detective and patrolman.
For Mrs. Evans not only nearly
ooled the keen eye of Patrolman
Sole as she tripped in trousers along
'eNenteenth street but she almost
-oodwinked the police into releas-
hg her by the apparent frankness
II her story that she had "hoboed"
7 in mems clothes from Lincoln that
she should not be separated from her
supposed husband. Jail doors were
swinging outward for her when her
secret became a secret no more.
AIRS. Evans undoing came yester-
Iay when it was discovered that Lin
som never hau been on her itinery.
snat she was not married to James
dall, who was arrested with her;
mat she had leit a nlne-year-old son
.nutnerless ana hungry, and that ..e
nad resided IN Denver for the last
TWO years.
All these disclosures resulted
from the hungry boy. He supplied
tAe cleW Wnlcn led from a missing
mother to woman arrested TOR wear
ing gentleman trousers. Cast up
on the charity OF lodgers at 500
fourteenth street, where Mrs. Evans
and Hall roomed, the boys case was
.eIated to the police.
Investigation showed that altho'
The mother was gone, all OF her
wardrobe had been left behind. Put
ing two and two together, John Ley
den OF the detective force, decided
that Mrs. Evans, missing mother and
Mrs. Hall, faithful wife" even to
noboing it, were the same.
And then Mrs. Evans confessed me
deception. Told how her son had
been turned over to the care Of
strangers to be sent back to her rel
atives in Iowa, OF how he mourned
ner as suicide, she barred the whole
story.
20, don't know why l did It,"
she cried. II don't know why l have
done anything for the last three
weeks.
We We're desperate-$75O room
rent due, nothing to eat, no work to
90, no money in the house except
my boys pennies. Well, 1 just put
on the clothes and went out.
Il don't know what we were go
ing to do. We couldn't have done
much. Why all we had was a couple
of keys and a little satchel. We
couldn't stick up anybody with
those could we?
They say that we are second
story workers. Well, surely we
eouldn' have gotten away with much
IN the satchel and we didn't have a
gun to use If we got in trouble.
Il don't know what we are going
TO do, l don't know. Maybe we
would have robbed a vegetable gar
den. Yes l think that is what we
were going to do. We had to have
something to eat" In the midst of
her wailings her thoughts were al
ways of Hall. In fact, according to
her story, they were to have been
married within few days after Pa
trolman Cole led them away to Jail.
What are they doing to Jim?"
Mrs. Evans asked again and again.
She would break off in a recital of
her own woes to put the query. Fin
ally someone said grimly:
The third degree"
MIS-. Evans voice rose in a Shrek.
She threw up both hands and fell
forward on the cot sobbing hyster-
| ically.
Mrs. Evans says that she and Hall
nave been living at the Fourteenth
street house for about six weeks.
she first met him she says when she
was working as maid at the Cadil-
lac, rooming house at 1871 Cali
fornia street.
Hall says that he is trained
nurse. He declares that he attended
George Pettibone in his late illness.
MRS. Evans says that both had been
out OF work for weeks with the ex-
ception of occasional cases Of uurs-
ing for Hall, which lasted only q
few days.