The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-26

man has a mother, and pose as the discoverer of a startlngly original truiSm
 Somewhere in the background there turks the eternal feminine whose ex- istence spurs the thief on to the ap- propriation of other peoples property or nerves the murderers hand to deal out death by bullet, poison or knife blade to his victim. The professional thug is wont to look forward eagerly to the good time in store for him in the company of the painted damsel whose capricious favor he hopes to purchase with a portion of his ill-got- ten gains, while your amateur, edu- cated criminal would fain win the smiles of some siren of higher social caste by the expenditure of that for which he risked honor and liberty. For the colonel's lady and Judy OGrady are sisters under their skins!' sings Kipling. and equally so there is little to choose between male maraud CTS of high and low degree.
 Admitting that there is usually woman in the case" somewhere. one seldom finds a member of the fair sex taking an active physical part in the commission of a carefully planned crime on a large scale. Street hold ups with female participators are not unknown in police records, but as general thing the woman merely plays the part of decoy to draw the vic tim within reach of her strong-arm Artav as United States marshal in Arizona and later as an investigator of bank robberies l knew of but one case where woman figured as an actual 'live worker" to the extent of en- forcing a demand for cash at the muz- gle Of d siX-shooter. She was Pearl Hart then a girl in her teens but pos sessed of a dare devil courage and recklessness worthy of a member of the Jesse James gang. Yet there was nothing masculine in the appearance of this extraordinary girl, nothing to indicate the AmaZonian spirit that lurked within her slender frame. She was of slight build, weighing in the neighborhood of 100 pounds, and clad
 
 looked like not particularly robust and rather attractive boy.
 It was in the jail at Tucson, Arizona, that first made Pearls acquaintance and obtained from her a confession which laid bare the details of her rov- ing and singularly romantic life. This was immediately after she had sprung into notoriety by accomplishing feat never before performed by one of her sex-the holding up of stage coach and robbing the passengers at the point of a gun. It was the culmina- ing exploit of her career which had been a stormy and eventful one from early childhood.
 Pearl Hart is a native of Canada, where her parents. honest, respecta- ble people in humble circumstances, reside today At the age of 13 she made her first pilgrimage into the out side world. running away from her home in Lindsay, Ont, and taking with her younger sister. The two, dressed as boys, made their way by boat to Buffalo, N. Y, where they worked fer a while in factory where children were employed. After the sisters had been in Buffalo for about two months their parents got track of and finally recovered them.
 But the love of rowing had become too deeply implanted in Pearl Hart's restless bosom to allow of her leading a quiet and uneventful existence at homo. Two years later she again wandered away. her sister accompany ing Ter as before and the pair went to Chicago Both were dressed In I....,. olnAA % and nnnarnntlX had DO