Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-01
WASHINGTON GIRL
DRESSED AS BOY
WAS ARRESTED
WAS SLEEPING IN HALLWAY
Pretty Girl is Afraid and
DOns Boys Clothes


street northeast, was found asleep II.
the vestibule Of vacant house in Ba.-
timore early yesterday by policeman.
Why or how the girl got into such
situation could not be explained BY
her relatives here, who were utterly
astonished when notified by the Balti-
more authorities.
Miss Burke left Washington Sunda'
evening to visit a friend of the family,
Mrs. Lillian Espey, in Baltimore. A lit
tie more than "a hours later, Lieut..
Hartley, night chief of the detective
bureau in Washington, received tele-
phone call from Baltimore police
headquarters, stating that the Balti-
more police were taking care of Miss
Burke, pending the arrival of her rell-
tives. Lieut.. Hartley Immediately no.
| tilted the girls brother, Policeman
Frank S. Burke, of the Third precinct,
and Burke a little later set out for
Baltimore, dumbfounded by the news
of his sisters predicament.
Miss Burke Tells Her Story.
When Policeman Walsh led his
prisoner" into the central station il
Baltimore, it appeared that he had a
young boy in tow, but as soon as the
hoy" removed his cap, a lot of dark
hair fell down, and it was perfectly APP
parent that the "boy" was a pretty
girl, dressed in boys clothing. Then
Miss Burke explained, though for a
long time she did not reveal her idejl-
tity in full, giving her name as Estelle
Burke, and saying that her home was
in Mount Washington, a suburb of Bal
timore.
She had come to Baltimore with Mrs.
Espey, who she was visiting, she said,
and young male member of Mrs. Es-
pegs family. The three did some shop
Eping, which included the purchase CT
suit of clothes by the youth. The
suit was placed in a satchel, and Miss
Burke had so many parcels of her ow !
to carry that she told the young man
she would be glad to carry his grip if
he would carry her bundles. The ex-
Ichange was made, and then, in some
fashion that she could not explain,
Miss Burke became separated from
the others-and lost in strange city.
Afraid, Puts on Disguise.
1t was then long after dark. Una
BILE to find. car which would take her
back to Mrs. Espey's residence, and
too difilent to ask directions of pass
ersty, she wandered about, Juggling
the suitcase unit! she decided to sit
down and wait for a policeman 70
come along. She stepped into the door
way Of vacant building in Montgon-
cry street near Park aveDe, ami
then, afraid of the rough-looking peo-
pie passing by, decided to disguise
herself as a boy and thus wait for II
policeman without fear of molesta-
ton; so she slipped behind the vesti-
bule door, and soon her skirt and hat
were in the suitcase whites he w2s
wearing the new suit and cap that il
had contained Being fashionably at
tired, Miss Burke explained that she
wore very few feminine clothes any
way, and the change was quickly eff
fected.
Not long after midnight Policeman
Walsh, trying the doors on his bea-,
entered the vestibule and found the
"boy" asleep When she had told him
her story, he took her to the station
1y,in oh nT~nn Z
'masquerading" was entered against
her. Later, in the police court, JUS
tice Supplee dismissed the charge AMI
when Miss Burke had told him that
her home was in Washington. in
structed the police to communicate
with the authorities here.