The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-04-28

queer type, is Anna McDermott.
How Mrs. Boyle Looks.
AS I went up the winding jail
stairs that end almost In front or
her cell, the woman was standing
leaning against the iron grating.
Her plump child-like oval face
was pressed against the bars. She
smiled and that moment was pref
ty. No fatigue or worry wrinkles
,defaced her countenance. Her skin
g velvety white, her eyes 1us-
trous, her eyebrows carefully pen
ciled, and she had drawn pencil
marks under her lashes and from
the corners to give the fashion,
able long effect. saw her when
she was arrested in Cleveland. The
only change imprisonment has
made in her appearance is that the
golden tinge is fading from her
hair; it is several shades darker.
But she still combs it with a Ma
donna like droop from the center,
hiding the lobes of the ears, and
ties 1t with a low knot.
The woman wore a navy blue
kimono, frightened with lowered
tracery. 1t showed the long white
"V" of her neck.
Comfortable Jail Life.
Cell hardly applies to Mrs.
Boyle's quarters. 1t is a room of
fair size, furnished with a double
bed, a table, chairs and a bath
tub. There was a red ingram car
pet on the floor. Magazines and
papers were scattered about.
Against the wall hung a black
silk dress and long light coat. On
the radiator lay heap OF embroi-
dery-trimmed lingerie. Newspa-
per cuts of herself and magazine
pictures were pinned about. and
where the walls were bare she had
drawn crude fancy heads OF
women.
Mrs. Boyle talked first of how
she spends her time.
"I read the magazines" she
said, "but when I've finished q
page I don't know what's on It
I've written story. Wouldn't
you like to see it,"
She brought eight written pages
aroused over the kidnapping case
The theme was that the public is
cruel in trying to take their life's
liberty from two people (herseli
and Bobyle) who treated little
Billy kindly. Other children
have been kidnapped without it's
causing such a fuss, the story
says, but Just because there were
"big dollar signs behind the
Whitla boy the public went crazy
when other poor children, hungry
and abandoned, do not arouse
bit of sympathy.
"Billy Whitla isn't a little god
like people think he u.s." she said
Hes like any other child"
There is a dramatic passage II
the woman's story, in which sh'
says she wishes kidnapping were
punishable by death. "Then
would have q trial before judgt
Of whom I am not afraid, and m.
dead mother would be there" 4
says.
"What's the Use?''
The story begins with the stanzs
of original poetry:
"In the year two thousand nine,
One hundred years from today,
Little Billy, Jim and Helen
All will have gone to decay.
So what's the user"
She is also sending out a chair
of prayer letters to the members
of the sheriff's household.
Questions about the kidnapping
or who her relatives are were me
with what has been described al
the poker face" The soft, whit,
features would suddenly freez'
rigid. The eyes would widen ant
harden like marbles. Then tn
woman was not prstty. But per
sonalities, Mrs. Boyle was perfect
ly glib about them.
To prove that her red tresses de
serve praise, she shook them loose
They fell thick almost to he
waist.
81 have never been so placed g
that I had to work." she explain
ed grandly as she locked her Ions
smooth white fingers "Once o.
artist wanted me to pose for him
but he only offered me rs cent
an hour, and I thought that out
rageously little. as ! had o goo
deal of money then"
She talked easily OF the differ
emit cities and actresses and stag
conditions, showing q wide know
edge of both.
Talks of Her Travels.
Denver n great" she said
1.-THE sunshine b wonderful.
tell you that u Gods own eountr,