Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-03
MYSTERY. VEIL
OVER FREDDY
go
TO BE LIFTED
Lewistown Police Chief Conf
dent; So Are Holders Of
Three Versions Here.

Chief of Police Ray of Lewistown
is out with the announcement that he
is about to shatter all the nice ro-
nance Freddy Weiderecht built around
herself by getting arrested while wear
inr mans attire. Great Falls officials
were baffled by the mystery surround
ing the gentlemanly young lady ident-
ity during the 50 days she was in the
Cascade county Jail. but with Chief
Ray there was no difficulty at all in
learning the why and the wherefore OF
Freddy's masquerade. Says the lewis
town Democrat News. Of Saturday.
"Chief Of Police Ray said yesterday
that he will soon have in his posses.
sion information as to the identity OF
Freddy Weiderecht, aged 20. who is IN
the city Jail after conviction on the
charge of vagrancy. Mr.. Ray declared
that he already has enough data in his
possession to explode the theories that
Miss Weiderecht is a novelist. scenario
writer, an actress or anything else che
has been accused Of being. He said the
explanation of the woman's arrival IN
been accused Of being. He said the ex-
PLANTATION of the woman's arrival in
Lewistown, the whereabouts of her
home and other news is decidedly soro-
siac and not in the least romantic
Tho Authentic Stories.
So said some Great Falls officials
after her arrest here. 1t was going
to be only q day or two until every
one knew all about Freddy. but she
quit the Jail upon the expiration of her
sentence with nobody informed beyond
the fact that playing classical music,
reading Victor Hugo and smoking in
Vulnerable cigarettes were her favorite
dissipation. At least three people in
claim to know Freddy's story, but each
each is somewhat scornful towards the
others presumption that they alone
know the girls secrets. Great Fails
officials were wondering Saturday
which story has. impressed Chief Ray
as being the right one.
Spurned $500 Stage Offer.
It is hoped in Great Falls official
dom that while the Lewistown chief is
learning all about Freddy he will dis
cover why she, while confined in the
county jail without thin dime in her
pocket. refused theaterical offer
guaranteeing her 500 for an appear
ance on the stage here one night.
The offer carried possibilities Of large
daily earnings and an engagement. of
some length, but Freddy wasn't even
Freddy won the heart of every pris
oner in the county Jail while she was
confined here. She "kidded' the des-
pendent and sang to them, played to
them on a dilapitated old vest-pocket
organ, and never quite smiling. The
only time her face lost its smile was
when her picture was taken by the
bureau of criminal Identification. For
a month before her arrest here she
did not leave her room in Central
avenue hotel. Neither the landlady or
a doctor attended her suspected Ter
Freddy's escapade at Lewistown has
had results much less pleasant than
her experience here. 1t was reported
that she was arrested there in comp
any with some hop heads and it is
that Chief Ray has a poor
opinion of her adventures. One Lewis
town young girl thought she would
join the brakebeam Paternity. too. af-
ter Freddy appeared to be having so
much fun. but she was found in tears
at Roundup and taken home to her
Darents