Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-12-18
slip Of A GIRL
BECOMES BURGLAR
She Finally Confessed To
Police After Her Mother
Had Been Sent For
LOST FOR ONE WEEK.
Slept In Lobby W Postoiicc anal
ROamed In Woods Near
HpardaIe Farm.

Chief 81 Police Frank Stewart, re-
garded as one of the best sleuths in
the south, met his match last niSht.
She was a sixteen year old girl and
she got his goat. +" In the history
of the loca' police department there
has never been more clever of
evasive person questioned by the OF
ficers and with as little success. The
girl is Gladys Beatrice Allen, daugh-
ter of a Mrs. Allen. who lives with
her two daughters OF seventeen and
sixteen, at No. III Georgia street.
The girls appearance at police
headquarters was rather unexpected.
Chief Stewart and Assistant Chief Of
Police Fiveash were investigating a
burglary at home of Captain Matt
Hudson at 1870 o'clock last night
when the girl suddenly turned the
knob Oh front door and walked in.
what DO you want?'' asked Chief
Stewart as the girl walked ia.
'Did 4 negro man leave a bundle
of clothes here?'' she asked.
The bundle of clothes the girl re-
ferred 70 had led to the discovery
that the Hudson home had been bur-
glarized. The members of the fam
lily had Teen in an adjoining room
earlier in the evening and when Rob
ert NJ Vance, who lives with his
family at tile Hudson home, walked
into the hall, on coming home, he
found the bundle on the floor. He
asked his wife about it and an in
vestigation revealed the fact that the
house mai been burglarized. Among
the articles stolen was a doll trunk,
containing lot of doll clothes and
other articles. 1t was then that
Chief Stewart and Assistant Chief
Fiveash we're called to the scene to
Investigate,
Chief stewart questioned the girl
closely. She told many conflicting
stories. H. recognized her as the
same girl who had been reported to
the police as being near Hearndale
farm several days ago and who had
been missing from her home since
last Wednesday,. At police head
quarters the little girl denied every
thing, claiming to have been given
the clothes by her grandfather. Chief
Stewart exhausted every method to
get her to tell the truth, but she only
added to the mystery with her clev-
erness.
The chief talked to her like faith
err, but still she said she knew moth
ing. She said she had slept at home
every nlght since last Wednesday,
but her mother had previously told
the officers that she had not been
home for week. The officers say
that she slept one night IN the lobby
of the postoffice.
Finally Chief Stewart sent for her
mother and sister. Mrs. Allen and
her daughter broke down and cried
when they confronted the girl in the
chiefs office. The mother tried to
get the girl to tell where she had
come into possession of the garments,
books, trinkets. doll and bundle Of
clothes. She would only say they
were given to her by a man employ
ed at the Coco Cola Bottling Works.
Finally, stter two hours Of question
ing the girl confessed to her mother
and the chief. She said that she
had stolen the doll trunk from the
Hudson home and had left it at the
Cleveland Matthews store, telling
them that she would call for it.
The chief permitted the girl to re-
turn with her mother. She Is Moth
ing but girl Of tender years, al
though she appears to be unusually
we'll informed and is exceedingly
clever in her manner. The mother
of the girl has been i'll. The family
recently moved to this city from
Memphis, going from Chicago to that
city several months ago.
Mrs. Alien told Chief Stewart that
the girl lad never been away from
home before.