The San Francisco call., 1909-03-02
MOCKING GIRL
D[F|ES POLICE
TO ARREST HER
Agile Miss Leads Berkeley
SIeuths Merry Chase
Through House
Climbs Down Small Hole and
Laughs as Big Police
men Try to Follow
Minions of Law Finally Accept
Bail and Leave HOnOrs
With Fair Offender
Especial Dispatch TO tn. Call

Especial Dispatch 10 TIL. Call
BERKELEY March 1-With a teas
ing litter pretty 19 year old Kate
Foley fed from the front hallway of her
home at 1904 Oregon street this after
noon when three valiant and vigorous
Berkeley policemen went to arrest her
on g warrant charging the girl with
battery on the person of Mrs. j. ]. Hal
lahan. Up several flights of stairs to
the attic the girl ran, always a flight
akead of the sturdy officers, and in the
end she outwitted the law in cum
ningly planned manner that stultifed
the police department and finessed their
most adroit plan of campaign.
For the girl took refuge in a hole be-
tween the wall and a chimney, and
while the policemen could see her plain
.ly and could not but hear her mock
ing laugh, they could not get near
enough to deal the dolorous stroke that
would put the maiden in horrid jail.
She was as safe as a little white mouse
in its hole from the formidable ele-
plants of the law.
Girl Seeks Cover
Police Sergeant Thomas Wooley.
Bailiff Charles Becker and Policeman
Joseph Leonard appeared at the Foley
house this afternoon to serve the war
rant. Miss Foley Immediately ran to
cover, the three policemen In pursuit.
Through the lower floors of the house
the chase was on. wooley reached the
trap door of the attic just as q. Hash of
white petticoat and slippered foot
swished into the darkness of the place.
The sergeant climbed laboriously into
the attic. He heard an aIluring laugh.
He lit a match. In it's brief effulgence
he caught glimpse of pair of mock
ing eyes.
Come on" invited the voice of the
girl, and Wooley felt dizzy 1t was fun
to be a policeman. But the match went
out. When he found fresh match and
lit it the girl had disappeared as if she
were little witch and had ridden off
on her broomstick
Find Hole In Wall
Wooley cried Light. OH" and his
minions came with a bullseye lantern
and they examined the roof to find the
aperture through which the young
woman had flown. Instead they found
a hole by the wall, not two feet wide,
with teasing laugh at the bottom OF
it, Wooley started down after the
laugh and the agile girl Twenty five
feet farther down he encountered
second hole, too narrow for his police
manic girth. There was laugh haunt
ing the depth OF the second shaft, too.
90 feet below.
Wooley stayed on guard above and
his cohorts went into the Foley dining
room to attempt a flank movement by
partially demolshing a china closet
behind which the girl had lodged her
self. They could see her dimpIing
smile and hear her gay taunts, and they
grew giddy at their work They could
not reach her to serve the warrant.
From her stronghold the girl hos
pitably asked her beleaguers to amuse
themselves. Play the phonograph."
she suggested. The can of music they
opened was Wont You Come Out and
Play With Me-"
Father Gives Bail
1t looked like a lifelong seige. when
William Foley, her father produced
$500 cash bail and the policemen ac-
cepted that, on an order of court as
security for the girls appearance in
court tomorrow to answer to charge
of battery. 1t is alleged that Miss
Foley. who is as much. of an amazon
as she is a mouse, knocked down Mrs.
Harriet Hallahan, frail woman living
at 1908 Oregon street.
The most intense moment of the
seige was when the police considered
smoking the girl out of her hold or
driving her out with ammonia fumes
But she did not quail, although she
heard their plans. Out of regard for
Miss Foley's gameness. the police de-
cided to leave her with the honors of