Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1910 — Bertha Wakeland Proved to be A Tartar for Indianapolis Police. [ARTICLE]

Bertha Wakeland Proved to be A Tartar for Indianapolis Police.

About three weeks ago the police of Indianapolis were taking a girl named Bertha Wakeland to the Industrial School for Girls at Clermont. She watched her chance and leaped from the traction car window, although the car was going at the rate of 20 miles an hour. She made good her escaoe until Monday night although the police had secured track of her on several occasions, * Monday evening an officer saw her and undertook to place her under arrest but she broke away and ran down alleys and back streets for six blocks, until exhausted, stifle ran up the porch of a residence and bursting into the door, begged the surprised lady of the house to give her protection. The officer was right on her heels but Bertha did not submit until she had tried to inflict injuries on the officer with a hat pin. He dodged her thrusts g,nd finally disarmed her and took her screaming to a cell in the jail. She is said to be a very pretty girl but a regular imp and she will now be taken to the Girls’ Industrial School and care taken to prevent her escape. As soon as she was lodged in jail she began primping and wheq an officer gazed through the bars at her and inquired how she was getting along, she turned away from a little looking glass, and dimples came to her pretty face as she coquetishly remarked: “Oh, I’m feeling just fine.”