Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1913 — Girl in Man’s Clothing Arrested in St. Louis, Mo. [ARTICLE]

Girl in Man’s Clothing Arrested in St. Louis, Mo.

Elizabeth Roche, 17 years of age, fras arrested in St. Louis Tuesday, attired in men’s clothes. She then stated that she had adopted the attire in Lafayette in order to steal a ride to St. Louis. She claimed to have been employed for some time as a cook in St. Joseph’s hospital in Omaha, where her father died nine years ago, and her mother ;hree years ago: She had wanted to be a nun, she told the St. Louis police, and had gone to Lafayette to apply to Sister Berthilda to aid rer to join the sisterhood. When told there was no place for her she put on men’s clothes and bummed ;o St. Louis.