Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — In Boy’s Attire, Blushes Betray Her [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

In Boy’s Attire, Blushes Betray Her

CHICAGO. —Two tiny tears chasing themselves over her freckled cheeks and a timid blush which crept after them, brought the career of “Jack” Wilson to an ignominious end the other day in the South Clark street police station, where she had been taken by the police as a runaway. The night before “Jack,” now selfidmitted to be Sarah Wilson, 15-year-old daughter of a wealthy St Joseph (Mo.) ranchman, tearfully told of her attempted personation of a boy; how she had her hair cut short and how she smoked a pipe, even though it made her sick. - ~ .-v_civl.a The bluecoat* at the station ruefully admitted that “Jack" put it over on them and but for the tears and blush they would never have suspecta pipe andtobacdltohirtrous- * •« . . ■ . t rwv : ' y j

filled It with apparent skill, and lighted it Then while the admiring officers listened she told them of her trip. But one policeman sneered at her and the telltale tears and blush betrayed her. A moment later she was sobbingly admitting she was a girl. Blushing as scarlet as did their litter to the matron. She was sent back to her home as soon as her f* «« nne * ” ®° u - ibsi. * v--i & ■