Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-08-24
VIOLA WYATT, RESCUED
:. FROM MISSOURI PEN,
II VOICES THANKS
TELLS LIFE STORY
"BURGLAR MAID" BROUGHT
BACK TO OTTAWA AFTER BE.
ING SENTENCED TO PENITEN.
TiARY AT t6 WILL BE SENT TO
TRAINING SCHOOL.

Il certainly cant express my ap
probation to the people here for get
ting me out of prison. said 16 yeal
old Viola Wyatt. in her cell in the
county Jail today The girl whose
mother died many years ago. was
brought from the Missouri state pris
on at Jefferson City yesterday, and
! lodged in the county Jail by Miss
Launia Aussem, county probation of
fcer
Viola presented pretty picture,
and looked quite the 16 year old flap
per that she is, rather than the pro.
duct of a penitentary as she talked
in her cell this morning.
won't you sit down." she polite.
ly inquired of the reporter, who had
accompanied Miss Launia Aussem on
her visit to the Jail Miss Aussem
had taken sacks OF pears and peaches
to the girl prisoner. She was pretti-
iy thanked by Viola who extended
her hand and pattcd the probation
officer on the arm
Thanks Miss Ausem.
I'll tell you. Miss Aussem is my
frienH she said to the reporter.
There wag.-a rather quiet aud laugh
ing dignity and reserve ABOUT her and
an air entirely unexpected of an in
mate in a Jail Except for her rath-
er unusual attractlveness Viola would
not attract attention in any gather
ing of girls between the ages of is
and 21 years. Her hair, which was
cut short when she was taken to the
penitentiary. was curly, and pre-
sented the appearance of the mod
ern bobbed hair She was attired
in henna crepe knit frock cut styl-
ishly, which she owned when she was
taken to the penitentiary
"People call me the burglar maid, -
she laughed with a reserve The
newspapers say that | have found the !
way to a mans heart is through his
stomach and that ] cook delicious
dishes for him and then rob him"
SCOTS at $4,000 Loot
She was asked what she stole that
resulted in her being arrested and I
convicted of burglary. II was ac-
cused of taking $4,000 worth of'
clothing and jewelry," she carefully
replied
'Dd you take it?" she was asked.
"Oh. of course" was her reply with
an embarrassed laugh "They didn't
get back all of the things either"
she replied, ''but they got back most
of the clothes A part of the jewclry
/ had sold. No. didn't get anything
like the value it was worth. | was
on the fly, you know"
She was asked about reports that
have reached Ottawa that she eff.
fected one or two escapes after she
was placed under arrest She veri.
fled these reports, after stating that
she could not give the dates or times
and claiming that she never could
remember time.
She stated that she was first placed
under arrest in Chicago suburb. bv
a st. Louis detective. He took her
to the railway station to take her
back to ST. Louis. There, she said,
she lodged him and got away. Going
first to Wisconsin and from there to
Texas
81 had a fine time travelling" she
interjected in the narrative.
She came from Texas to Chicago
and was without funds. when she
wrote to a St Louis bank in St Louis
to send her money she had deposited
there. The authorities, she said,
traced her through the letter, and re-
arrested her in Chicago.
Leaps From Speeding Train.
A detective named Collins came up
and took her back. They changed
cars in st. Louis and when she got
on the other train she asked permis-
sion to go to the lavatory This was
granted but the detective took her
pockebook, while she left him
In the toilet. she claimed she tore
the screen from the window and
jumped from the speeding train near
Washington. Mo- escaping uniniured.
She said she went to a farm house
md put up a hard luck story, and
vas given aid by the lady of the
louse. She went from Washington
70 Decatur. H. and back over to st.
Zoe
Collins. she said. swore that he
rould never give up until he caught
fer.
SIeuth Shot at Her.
One day she said she was standing
looking in clothing store window
in ST. Joe. when she heard familiar
voice back of her say, "Well. I've got