The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-01-29
! BETTY" NORMAND, MAIL
SIREN, WILL GIVE BOND
KitzmilIer Girl Says She Has
Received Matrimonial Offers
Since Being Sent To Jail

Bail is being arranged for the re-
leas from Jail at Cumberland, of Miss
Anna Betty" Normand, 20 years of
age, of Kitzmiller, charged with US
ing the United States mails to de-
fraud, in receiving money from pros
pective husbands. George Normand,
Midland, her uncle, and l. D. Junkins,
Kitzmiller, will jointly go her bond.
She is likely to be released from
custody at any time.
Miss Normand, fairly good look
ing, of the German type, rather
plump, light haired, grey eyes and
cheerful, says that she will look for
employment after going to her home,
from the Jail. She wishes any kind
of respectable employment" she
said.
The young woman said that she
had no intention whatever of using
the mails to defraud. Il would never
have done it had l known it was
wrong" she declared. She, herself,
was defrauded, she said, because
when she would receive replies to
her advertisements for a husband,
through a matrimonial agency, 81
had gone to Chicago, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and other places, in ans
wer to my letters and find that the
men who said they were q years old,
were II or 81 years old" At other
times, upon receiving money to come
to the prospective husband, she could
not leave her home, where she is
housekeeping for her father, Anthony
Normand, her brother and her sister,
Mrs. Helen Kitzmiller.
Miss Normand says she has re-
ceived proposals of marriage, since
in jail, from men in Chicago, Phila-
delphia, Baltimore and other points.
She aspires to motion picture act
ing and has had experience in acting
with small company which travelled
throughout points in West Virginia
and Maryland. She plays the piano,
violin and accordion. Her favorite
motion picture actresses are Gloria
Swanson and Mabel Normand.
Miss Normand admitted that she
would consent to become the wife Of
Porter Anderson "Peg" Junkins, an
auto mechanic at Kitzmiller, if he
"would settle down" "He is good
looking and makes good wages and
that would suit me-" she said. Junk
ms is an old sweetheart, who has
been writing to her since her arrest.
"The man l marry must be willing
to work and must be able to make
enough money for we two to get
along nicely. The other men l met
in the big cities did not suit me. They
were either too old, or 1 did not like
them somehow" she declared.
Asked what her estimation of
wealth is, that if $4,000 a year was
enough, she answered.; "That is too
much; l would not need that much"
She likes children, and domestic
pets, comfortable home and to as
sociate only with "people that l like"
She is fond of out-of-door recreations
and of automobiling, but not card
playing. Gard games are too slow"
she averred.
Asked where she received her edu-
cation, she replied, 81 have no educa-
ton, but l learned what l know by
reading newspapers, periodicals, and
associating with people who know
more than do. l left school after
reaching the third grade. 1 go to
church, and l have my own way of
worship. That is better than being a
hypocrite, and going to church when
you don't mean it."
Her ideal Of husband is that che
must not be too handsome or too ugly
for women whose husbands are too
handsome, have trouble"
Miss Normand's mother was Miss
Agnes Yorgle, born in Germany. She
died several years ago. The young
woman has lived in Kitzmiller for
three years, prior to which she lived
in Westernport, her birthplace. Her
father is miner and laborer.