Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1913 — WAS DOMESTIC TEN YEARS [ARTICLE]

WAS DOMESTIC TEN YEARS

And If He Hadn't Gone to Have Hair "Marcelled" He'd fitlll Be on Job. Los Angeles. Cal. —Vanity proved the undoing of Prank Butcher, who for ten years had “worked out” as a domestic under the name of "Miss Anna” Butcher, during all of which time his disguise had never been penetrated. He is in the city jail today apparently embarrassed by , the male attire lent him by another prisoner. When a rosy cheeked, young woman entered a hair dressing establishment and ordered her hair “marcelled" the attendant discovered that she was working on a wig. Close inspection of her patron’s face irevealed a slight stubble. Then she called a policeman. "I suppose I was like other women,* explained Butcher at the Jail. *T wasn't ratlsfled with the hair I had and wanted it nice and wavy.” Butcher said he had experienced difficulty In obtaining employment as a man. “Five a week, board and room Is better than anything I could get as a man.” he said, "and besides 1 like to do housework.”