The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-11
Lass Admits That She
Participated in twenty-five
HOusebreakIngs.
SHE TALKS THIEVES ARG0T
WITH PERT PREC0Cl0USNESS
I Was All FIOssed Out and
Looked Cream and Peaches
TO .be Bulls" She Ayers.
Leaaed Wire 10 The Tribune.

LBy Leased Wire TO The Tribune
NEW YORK. Dee. referring TO
herself as Thomas Wandlass and then
|tsChicken StsIl' and intcrspcrsing her
narrative with thieves lingo that
would have bafhed Josiah Flint, Rex
4 Jean Mitchell. The 17-year old girl who
. was with Wiudlass. known as lanley
net Of breaking into Contractor Tap
. ley s home in Passaic, told in the Pas
saie Jail today An astonishing story of
4 how she participated in twenty-five
burglarics within the last two months,
Then she told her story with a pert
/ hippancy that was amazing I'D one that
/ had been raised on Canadian farm
.and had never seen n big city until
year ago. Looking like pretty child
with her hair up. she seemed not to
. have nerve IN her body, She said
II "Well. as long as you We got the
|ftuE and jim s record. ! might Just as
well blow the toot. Jim is the smooth
.est and clcanest man | ever met He
never concealed thing from me from
The first. and when he told me what he
was doing and the edge it brought him
lin, was game. He was a dress suit
burglar, or what he called a super
worker. He would start out harncssed
|fGr fash banquet and skin in side
'window while the people in the house
|wcre eating.
Burglars in Evening Dress.
j 'The first time | went out with him
. he rugged me- up in evening gown and
Ia big feather layout The bulls all
Fgavc us the low bend and never once
4 did any of them tumble to our trim
Was I timid about it? Not a bit. I
|learued my lesson like wise poodle
|snd pulled Jim out of half dozen
Hight places.
"Tho very first time ! went out with
. .hlm he used his gun aud | had 10 stall
La FAINT 10 make Il safe getaway
Tas al tlossed out in n new black
.vclret dress and | looked some cream
and peaches. We passed line of
bulls in Beacon street and Jim gave
them a million dollar bow
IA stalled along i'll front OF the house.
.erossIng over aud back and taking il
. easy as # looking for my carriage. But
Jim had no sooner got in than some
.old party next door got next and came
<out ha ba ing like = wild ram. Jim
was trapped two ways The bunch at
.eupper ran out and The fellows next
lhev were those open faced. white
Fenced houses they used 10 build in
Eostou before the food
Shoots Only to Scare.
II 81 thought Jim was going TO get
hls then bat as he ducked out Of the
window he d jimmied, he pulled his
Gun and sent his nciGhbors scuttliug
3le bad 10 shoot twice 10 scare of the
. tolks behind him. and when | saw hi
pop The fence on The street. ] spilled
my faint.
Il That was nv stall. When dropped
Fith all my elegant fixtures and made
q sdnall before | turned white. the
crowd all pulled my way. This is what
,uade it easy skipping for jim. for
fe made his getaway before tho fancy
/ rops (plaIn clothes men)
n when d stall faint ran on The
Igiri. IN her low. calm speech 81 II
IdfaU flock Of hens and nice old par
Iiles for sympathv. | d take about
I'Wen'v minutes 10 come to, and then
cal taxi or hack, giving some bloomer
Istall IN Boston we went up TO Salem
hnd we turned the nut (rcplcnisbod the
pans roll. in two streets in less than
Isn Dour: IL was my play 30 faint in
It'oht OF tue windows on the street If
u Iepvhody was passing. Jim would be
INorsIpg IN back. Tho crowd would
ZONE out from tine side houses. and
lneTe was always some old fussy with
dish OF water 10 spoil NV feathers
naI. made me so mad that | d be ready
70 hite. II slimmed the roll some poor
. 20 Keep mc III feathers.
Nj pld ! like the work? Well il ain t
||slew, and there $ some laugh in il. ]
NJ don care for cent
Perfect Gentleman.
Il And want 10 say right here that
I'im Handlev don I only look the pa ri
~ gentleman: he acts it, never
peard him swe3r. and he treated me
ss gentle and proudly as ever any gen
Ntisman treated lady. I'd walk
tnfoq"h the front doors OF hell for him.
mo d do u without blinking my eyes
" suppose ! m IN bad in this case, but
inefe am Z no use nursing your sore.
lived on frozen farm back in
sew brunswick, with frozen faces all
Z <<sieund- What ] craved for was life
tna mau who could be kind without
pein9 mealy about il. ] picked Jim
vut as the man. lie wasn't rough
peck and he wasu't n meaIv. He
tame OF good folks and had learned to
pe gentleman when boy. He ism I
firaid Of anything living. He taught
ms ms nerve and his talk.
k Would ] prefer 10 lead another life?
tot II had TO go back among frozen
aces l'vo had ono year Of life and
f'Eleen years of ice. ~
INC girl was transferred today from
ne pasaic lookup 10 the county laiI
PATERSON. She could not have
nohed brighter or trimmer than she
to when She emerged from her coll.
sr indifference 10 her situation was
"aNng, Her eyes were as untroubled
es child s.