Show WAS DRESSED aa A BOY but young woman attempted to raise her and was caught chicago oct 20 attired in roas garb augusta helvey a young married woman sought work for four days in the downtown district mingling with scores of rival male applicants cants and unobserved in the throngs on the main streets today she would have begun work as a male waiter in a downtown down town restaurant had not an observant policeman noted a characteristically feminine move and manner in the youth the police man took tho suspect to the police station where the young woman admitted her disguise and declared she had assumed the garb solely in order to secure employment in which living wages could be obtained in st louis she said she had worked as a waitress aud had been able to barely earn a scant ahing while her clothing had been worn to shreds to replenish it she bad taken from a trunk a suit of clothing once worn by her husband and had determined that henceforth she would pass as a man and endeavor to earn the wages given die male worker the woman is 26 years old and resides in neb when little more than a girl sh came to chicago she was married to richard vaughan it is said a city employed emp loye vaughn soon secured a divorce it la said and again assumed her maidee name she vas thrown upon her own resources and learned it was difficult tor a woman to earn a llvell hood she hi police that she was subjected to continual annoyances A speedily iriven automobile was the causa of 14 lailure of miss hel vacys plans As it flashed by a down tawn corner a policeman leaned tor ward to catch ho number abo woman m coat and trousers aas in irs path sha shrieked as she leaped asido into n mud puddle and made a motion as it to gather up her flowing skirts then the youth moved a hand to his hat is it to adjust it the patrolman waited no longer he had missed the number 0 the automobile but he took the boy to the station |