Smyrna times., 1924-01-23
DOVER YOUTH IMPERSONATING
"A FLAPPER" COMES TO GRIEF
ROBERT G. MASSEY, JR., AGED Is
OUT FOR "a LARK" GOT HIS FILL
Boarded Train From Dover to Will
mingtOn, Flirted With the Cops and
Winds Up in Jail but Soon Released

HlhS tOh' ThIteu WIN the cops and
Winds Up in Jail but Soon Released
Robert Massey, aged Is years, son
of Robert Gordon Massey and Mrs.
Clara Massey, who makes his home
with his mother in Dover, went to
Wilmington Friday night impersonat-
ing woman, and spent the night at
the Hotel dupont, after flirting with a
few of the younger policemen "she"
passed on the street. "She" started
out again Saturday morning to repeat
the experience, but came to grief af-
ter throwing loose glances at William
j. Burchinal, traffic officer at Eighth
and Market streets. Burchnal sent
the fiirt to the police station where
"she" was locked up. Owing to cher"
age the charge of impersOnating a
woman was dropped and "she" was
sent home in garments more appro-
pirate to cher" sex. When asked the
purpose of his escapade, Robert said
it was for a good time. He had it.,
"But say" he exclaimed, won't ! get
the deal when | go home" Robert
went up from Dover Friday afternoon
by train with Kimball Knight, also
of Dover. On the train a woman sit
ting behind him penetrated his dis
guise. He heard her say to a com
paniOn: "That amt no girl. Robert
however, did not pay any attention to
her and when the train reached vii
mington, he and Knight separated
and She wandered up Market street
alone, inquring for place to stay.
Among others that "she" met on the
street was Miss lone Hopkins, of Do
yer, an employee in the Office of the
/ State Board of Education in the Pub
/ lie Building, who has known Robert
| for many years. She failed to reco-
| gniZe Robert, however, as a stylishly
/ dressed young woman who asked Miss
Hopkins to direct cher" to a good ho-
tel Miss Hopkins, who directed cher
to the Hotel DUPONT, called on Robert
at the police station Saturday morn
ing and laughed as heartily as did
Robert at the joke played on her
Robert was dressed in a stylish hat
with a reddish brown wig, King Tut
gown, cut low in front, fur coat anC
wore black silk stockings and black
satin slippers. Robert says that wher
he called at the desk at the Hotel du.
Pont and asked for a room the woman
at the desk seemed to suspect him
but as nothing was said, he simply
took the key to his room after regis
tering under the name of "Clara Ran
dOlph" and left the hotel to avoid be
ing questioned. He walked dow
Market street, entered a motion pic
ture house, sat beside an elderly MAJ
and finally entered into a conversation
with the gentleman, who thought, "i
was not safe" for cher" to be wander
ing around at night alone and wante,
to accompany cher home, but, Rob
ert said Saturday morning, | told hin
that | had cut my eye teeth and tina
felt could find my way back home
When taken to the police station anC
ordered searched by House Sergean
Lewis, Turnkey Edward DuttOn, VIII,
usually performs that duty, bOlte'
from the room, and declared that tn
sergeant could not put "that job owe
on him" Even when matters wer
explained to him and the prisone
finally was escorted to a cell in tn
mems quarters, Dutton could not b.
persuaded to go any nearer than tn
corridor leading to the cell, unless ac
companied by some one.