Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-17
GIRL POSES AS
BOY BECAUSE OF
FRIENDS TAUNTS
Reads of Ethel LeNeve and Do
cides to Follow Her
Example. a.
WEARS MEMS CLOTHING
UNKNOWN FOR WEEKS
Identity Discovered Only When
Supposed Boy Asks Police
for Lodging. ~

Taunted by her friends who zatd that
because her hair had fallen out. follow
ing an attack Of scarlet fever. She
looked just like a boy. and moved BIZ
the example Of Ethel Clair LeNeves
who disguised as a boy, fed across the
Atlantic with DR.. Hawley III. Crippens
Katie Netuwska, d somewhat pretty
Polish girl, donned mems attire and
wore II for weeks That she was mas
querading came to light only when.
after applying for lodging in the Third
Precinct police station last night. sh@
wes searched.
Attired in a dark suit. a black cam-
brio shirt and wearing a purple tie and
a gray cap, the girl. dressed as a man.
entered the police station and stepped
up to the desk CHANGING down from
his seat Sergeant Forsythe saw what
he took to be a typical youth. hands
and neck soiled and fingers deeply
stained with what appeared to be nico-
tine. The sergeant has a family, he is
kind hearted man, and when the
young person in front of him told him
in an undertone that he was half over
come with the cold and asked Tor a
nights lodging, the request was quickly
granted.
Certainly, young man.. the sergeant
said.
Her Sex DISCOVERIES.
The supposed youth was assigned to .
cot, but the doorrnan never completed
the search Of the strangers clothing. He
stopped, with surpriseR look, before
he had hardly begun, and called upon
the matron to finish the task. To the
woman the lodging seeker then admit
ted that she was 1s-year-old girl.
The case was kept secret, how ever,
until today. when Captain Christie de-
cided that the case was worthy Of
Investigation and LisG2ge ffzaimsr IN
mitted Miss Netuwsisa 10 tire county
jail for ten days
All eyes were on the prisoner as she
was led before Acting Sergeant Far
ley this morning. Interpreter Ambrose
who translates Polish into English
stood by the girls side.
! whats his namer asked the act
ing sergeant.
Katie Netuwska" said Ambrose
Farley gave second glance and was
not satisfied until Ambrose whispered
across the desk:
Sergeant, he is a gfrs' In boys
clothes"
The prisoner declared she had no
home, and was charged with being 2
vagrant.
When the charge was read to her in
court and the interpreter translated IL
to her. she remarked:
That's all right"
Later the prisoner said that she vas
prompted to don the clothes of the op-
posite sex after she recovered from
scarlet fever.
The Girls story.
4 am Polish and have no friends or
relatives said the would-be youth. Il
worked in Lynchburg Pa. In a hotc}
for year and was sick with scarlet
fever. I was sent TO hospital and
when l got out 1 lost my hair and
everyone made fun Of me and told mo
was a boy.
''I read something in the Polish paper
about Miss LeNeve and DIR. Crippen-
and decided that as long as the boys
called me Billy and told me I was a
boy I'd be one.
II managed to get these clothes from
2 friend and came to New York. I got
lodging in charity houses, the Saliva
ton Army and few other places there.
and no one ever thought I was a girl
came TO Newark yesterday to look
TOR Job, and 1T was so cold last night
that I had TO go some place for lodsin&.
| was told to 90 to the police statscn
by a man asked where I could 50 -
sleep"
When questioned the girl adfnixes8
that she learned TO smoke after her
discharge from the hospital She sRi4
that people told her II was good ttr
one who had scarlet fever.
The prisoner was calm and when
being led into the patrol wagon was a.
erect as one of Uncle SANS regulars
Captain Christie viii have Plain
elothesmen BreS Miller and Ad'1bsts
investigate.