The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-30
Police Recognise Feminine Voice
at Campfire Arrest.
CUMMING" TO FRISCO.
st. Joseph Lass Says Mother is
With Dying Sister.
Transportation May Be Given
Her to Coast.

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burn hair cut short, and dressed IN d
mans costume, which effected SO com
plete a disguise that the police IN Ran
sas City did not detect her, Ehzapelh
Carr. 10 years old, and pretty, was ar
rested with four men rhopoes III m ri,e
yards of the Missouri, Kansas & Iexas
railway company in Rosedale last
night.
The party of five were sitting con-
tentedly about camp fire when ar
rested. William Drew, j. S. Andrews
and John Mckenzie, pollceiilg e. e;I Ia
Rosedale, surprised the party All rive
were arrested, and it was not until they
had questioned her at the police sta
ton that the officers learned that
Elizabeth was a girl.
She wore pair of black trousers Il
blue hickory shirt and white sweater
A small gray cap hid from view the
close cropped auburn hair, and even
her walk was ''mannish." Her voice
gave her away to the Officers me
caIaboose in Rosedale does not have
accommodations for women so the Of
ficers took the tramps to the Wyan-
dotte county Jail for the night
Started at Night.
Elizabeth told A l.. Becker. sheriff,
that she had left st. Joseph, Mo,
wednesday night in company with
John Smith. one of the five, bound for
San Francisco.
My sister, Mrs. Ora Limbrick, is
dying in Frisco she said. "My
mother, Mrs. Elnora Carr, left me in
st. Joseph last September to go to
her. 1 got homesick to see them, and,
having no money for car fare, decided
to bum it out 1 had known Smith
since 1 was a small girl, and 1 told
my plans to him. He had been work
ing in the packing house in ST. Jo-
seph. and he agreed to go. He cut off
my hair, at my request, and l got my
outfit from a boy who worked at a
nickel theater in st. Joseph, where L
sang"
no, 1 am not sorry 1 started out
this way she said, in response to a
question. 1.-THE only thing I am sorry
of is that my hair is gone. 1t was
long, and 1 was proud of it. And,
say" she continued, 81 claim 1 am
right there with the makeup. We
passed dozens of these Kansas City
cops and not a one of them recog-
nized that I was a girl. I'm mighty
glad to get a place to sleep. though.
1t was cold in the box car that Smith
and rode down in from st. Joseph.
We came over the Burlington. I be-
lieve l am through with the hobo life.
1t is too hard Me for the cushions
after this. But 1 do wish I could get
to my mother in Frisco
Father in ST. Joseph.
The girl has big blue eyes and a
frank expression. She told -f7er story
in a straight forward manner. She said
her father, Thomas Carr, was employed
in st. Joseph packing house and lives
at 312 Michigan street. The men ar
rested with her were John Smith, Jas.
Wilson, Harry Hart and Marvin Gull
verson. Hart and Culverson told the
officers that they Joined the other three
Just a few minutes before they were
arrested, and did not know Miss Carr
was q girl.
"She had me fooled all the time, =
Hart said. She went by the name of
Henry West, and carried the bluff
through on us
Smith, who left st. Joseph with the
girl, said he had been working in st.
Joseph, but that his address most of
the time was anywhere" Wilson, who
joined Smith and the girl at Iatan,
Mo-, says he lives in Parsons, Kan.
He was the only one of the party who
had any money.
Miss Carr was held in the sheriff s
private office while the men were being
booked and locked UP. She ate con-
tentedly from a sack of peanuts during
the questioning. t
Gee, it is warm in here" she said,
as she arose from her chair. Il guess
j will pull off my sweater" And she
did, showing a blue hickory shirt and
a pair of new suspenders. Don't you
think I make a pretty good man?'' she
asked, as she snapped the suSpenders
with her fingers, like a small boy. Il
bet 1 could almost fool my mother
The girl and the men arrested with
her will be held for investigation.
Sheriff Becker will investigate her story
and if It is found that her mother is
in San Francisco steps may be taken
to get transportation for her to that
city