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Show MIKING NELL IS A TRAMP BY CHOICE Jniler Hagbert Anderson received a surprise last night when a woman entered the police station and asked lor a night's lodging When requested request-ed to tell her name, she replied, 'Just put it down -Hiking Nell'" Alter she had been questioned still further. I she gave her last name as Hale and i said that she bad been tramping for i the past seven years, but she had never stolen a ride In a boxcar She showed that she bad learned a lew tricks on the road by taking a sack of tobacco from a man's shir' nnd lolling- a neat cigarette In a remarkably re-markably few seconds. A few whiffs of the 'cigarette loosened up her tongue and she began to talk "Hiking Nell ' said she was horn in St Louis thirtj -fiv eais ago. but she has been on the road for sevor. enrs She did not state whv she bad taken up 'he life of r. :ramp. nut said that she was bound for ' warm or climate to remain through ir.-winter ir.-winter When asked li hc would accept further aid from the city, she replied that she i would accept no charity but would just like to spend tho night In jail, and would leave lr. 'It morning Although shr- declares that she has never rode on a freight train durlnu the hex en ears of her wandering? about the countiv. Mrs Hale, for she admits luning lefi her husband did not walk even a small portion of the distance trom Collinslon to Ogden On the supposition that the woman was Insane, the Collinston officers arrested ar-rested her and sent her to Brigham Citv When the Ho Rider authorities discovered their mistake tbe supplied sup-plied her with an Ogden Rapid Transit Tran-sit ticket to Ogden |