Show WOMAN DRESSED IN MENS MEN'S CLOTHES FOUND IN A GANG OF ALLEGED V In a of oC alleged trespassers and vagabonds collected in the Short Line yards yard early this morning by the police was found found a woman masquerading ing in mens men's clothing Had it not been for her voice the disguise would never have been discovered as the fair tramps tramp's features are distinctly of oC a masculine type When the patrol wagon arrived at atthe atthe atthe the police station and Its occupants were lined up before the desk sergeant Jim as she calls herself opened her mouth for the the first time She was indignant in indignant in in- at bei being g for simply sleeping in a freight car Such a thing had never before happened to her In her six years' years experience as a traveler The arresting officers pricked up their ears as soon as she began to talk and arid finally one of oC them asked her If she was not a woman At first she re refus refused re- re fus fused d to admit it and then with an anair anair anair air of bravado she said that she was and did not care who knew It She was entered on the book as Lizzie Wasley Wesley Wesley Wes Was ley 42 years old and then locked up to await trial Jim was seen in the jail this morning morning morning morn morn- ing by a Telegram reporter She Was was lying on the floor In a deep sleep and had to be awakened After being called and shaken several times she sat up As soon a as she slie saw that she had a vIsitor visitor vis vIs- she accused him of b being ing a reporter and said she sIte would wohld not talk unless he gave her enough money to buy a good meal Then relaxing a little she sat up The picture presented was that of ofa ofa ofa a young man not more than 21 years old The TIme features s were thoroughly masculine mas mas- culine Her hair was dressed in a mans man's Police Amazed to Find Member of Band Arrested Ar Arrested rested is of the Feminine Fern Fem mine Stripe style although a little straggly and looking as if it had not been com combed ed for a week Her hat was a fairly good- good looking straw which fitted well on her head She had on two pairs of trousers trousers trous trous- ers the upper pair being several sizes I too large for foe her Her shoes were about a No 6 mans man's sho shoe They looked rather the worse for wear showing that the woman had done a good deal of walk walk- ing lag Although her face had the coarse features fea fea- I turcs tures of a man it did not look hardened or depraved and in her talk she showed I a certain amount of and education I tion lion When once started Jim talked readily enough I have been traveling this way for six years over ever since I left my husband husband hus hus- band she said He drove me away from home I wear a mans man's clothing because e a man can call make more money than a woman Why I could get 30 50 as a man where a woman gets 15 Besides a woman woman has to work lots longer She would have to do fourt fourteen t n hours hours' work to a mans man's eight I work as a cook or take care of horses horse drive a team or any old thing I can get to I do I l' lam am airs on my way to Nevada now to see if I can get a job cooking in a mining camp For the last six years I have been traveling around in New Mexico 1 and I back East I have worked In Santa Fe Albuquerque and In some of the mining camps I to took k several trips back to St. St Sty Louis where my father lives He believes be be- be in women wearing mens men's clothes He doesn't like to see a woman togged up like a doll with that finery and everything That's the way I think thinka think a about out it too I never would go back to women's clothes again Let a man put them on for tor a month and he would understand why I am inn a bell believer ever in women's rights and I 1 think women ought to adopt men's mens clothes especially where they do mens men's work I think the reformers ought to spend more time re reforming reforming re- re forming poor women's won clothes and less lesson lesson lesson on the heathens They ought t to be looking aft after r the por in their own cities too tod and fix up their Jails I was born in Kentucky and lived there until I was 17 Then I went to St. St Louis and stayed there about fifteen years I had a good education in an academy near St. St Louis My folks all know I am going around this way but butI I have gone to se them and they t didn't recognize me at first no no one ever does Hardly any of the men J r have to travel around with know th that t I am a woman and I never had but one man offer me mean mean mean an Insult I have a sister living in Salt Lake but she know me i Sol Kimball the jailer Was greatly surprised and not a 3 little put out this morning when he saw aw a man come walking out of the woman's womans ward for breakfast He asked for an explanation tion and acknowledges that he felt a little crestfallen when he found she was wasa a woman The room dining-room men objected objected ob oh- to Jim sitting down at the women's table too when she came to her breakfast and and- the and the jailer had to explain the situation to them |