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Show young mm A MARTYR 10 AMBITION Gets in Jail for Stealing as an Aid to Literary Work. NEW YORK. Dec. 21. -Miss Lillian Cherry of Minneapolis came to New York not long ago with a bundle of manuscripts. For tight yeais she Is now 'M teaching has been lu-r vocation, writing writ-ing her ambition She was held In Jef-f. Jef-f. r on Market Foli.je ..uit . -I. ci ty on a charge of shoplifting in a Sixth avenue ave-nue department stope Her defense was, like Hamlin Garland who recently gut himself placed In a cell In order to acquire ac-quire "local color." she was gathering material for an article ori "How Kaay li Is to Slial ln a Department St. a'. Acquiring Local Color. According to tho stoic detective Mls.s Cherry was 6een to lake a woman s combing Jacket When searched after he.i hi i est tin ..- addition articles were found upon her; A locket, a paper of pins, sxon. a piece 'f lace three i-.-arfs, flvs I a inlk" I chief two .,ar. loirt.en post-cards, post-cards, one polisher and four bolts of ribbon. rib-bon. Clergyman Gets Bail. She sent word to the Rev. Dr. David James Burrtll of tin Marl:.- Collegiate church, in Fifth avenue, rcca iiing to him that she had been one of his parlshiniici s In Minneapolis Througn th- Rev. Dr. Rutherford counsel whs ccurid for her The hearing wa-i adjourned until tonior-iow tonior-iow and f2..Vm hall was accepted from those Interi sted It Is Htld in the woman s behalf that he purpose was. fur one thing, lo scoff I at the New York way of doing business with crowds, and for another to test ! whether actual experience had not more I merit than Invention In a "story" meant for sale. Miss Cherry's New York address Is Given in the court papers as being at a Boarding-house at 12 W est Ninety-fourth street. I |