The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27
Beatrice Knipfng, II Years Old,
Disappears Clad in Broth
er's Clothes.
CUTS HAIR BEFORE LEAVING
No Clew to whereabouts of Girl
Who May Have Gone to
California.

Beatrice Kniphng, who will be II
years of age next Wednesday, has dis
appeared from the home of her step
father. A. ID. Knipfng, 253 South
Fourth East, in a manner that BATTLES
her family and everyone interested.
Some time Friday sight the girl
donned suit of her brother g clothes,
and clipping her long hair, wrapped this
in her own clothing and hid the bundle
in the cellarway of an adjoining house.
A dog awak the mother early in
the morning and she went to the door
through the girls room without motto
ing that the latter was not there. Miss
KnipGng was not missed until about 6
0 clock, Her brother, Cornelius Knip-
fng, says he did not get in until about
IL clock Friday night and that as he
and younger brother slept in the
kitchen near the door, she did not go
ont after he came in unless she went
out through a window, He thinks his
sister left before he came home. A
neighbor heard some one washing early
in the morning, however, and thinks
that it was the girl and that she did
not leave home until about ) clock in
the morning.
The girls disguise is said to be com.
her brother, who is a year her senior,
and it is thought that his
clothes would fit her we'll, She
took his best suit, blue with q
white thread running through It,, and
his shoes. socks and hat She did not
take a shirt OF any collars and 1t is
thmght that she anticipated that these
would not fit her and made other pro"
vision for this part of the outht: Judg'
ing from the hair that was left In the
cellar way, the girl evidently had some.
one else to clip it, as it had been cur
~ and then trimmed, the short hairs
being in the bundle
Members of the family say that
+hey know Of no reason for her leaving
home, From what could be learned last
night Miss Knipfng has no relative Nv.
no nearer than Los Angeles, an aunt
having passed through Salt Lake on her
msy to that city about three weeks ago
All her other relatives and close frlende
I've in illinois or New York. The lam
| ;1v came here from Brooklyn.
The police are working on the case
but not clew has been found, ana II
she has a confederate, Miss kenipnne
nrobablv has Il good start. She II
spnoken Of in the highest terms by every
sp ope who knows her. She had been
wnrkinp un for Auerbach Bros. for anou'
sovan months and had given good SAT
Su.v ;sfact;on to her employers.
Cornelius Knipfng, the brother, say
.h.t neither he nor his sister ever kne"
tha;, thaT true name, and that it was only
fevv wears ago that they became aWafs
~ the fact that Knipfng was not thei'
I-etc last evening two men Tepor.sc
~ Chief OF Police Samuel M. Barlow tnn
tbev had passed a person aoout 2o, ugo,
,Jesterdav who answered the deseriptlS,
20 thn missing girl. They said that sns
was alone and going toWaIu Ihg % nor n, a,
yards of the Oregon Snort Line .vet
Eo,rth West street when lhey passs,
snr AS they approached. ono OF tnS., S;,,
morno rjsed. "thAt looks like a girl. en- en-
aenmcJ to hear and drew her nat domi W.
o.,ar her face in confusion Ihcy dld no
pnow OF the missing girl until they reh.
The account In tho TELEGRAM no"gye, T,,a,
omd then notified the chief or pohce .s ins,
15ni,sncribed 5i,n the girl so mlnutely thnt thsr s,I
aeena ee,na TO be no doubt that she was TN
KnlphnR girl