Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1914 — Indiana Girl Awakes to Find Her Tresses Gone [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Indiana Girl Awakes to Find Her Tresses Gone

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. —When she was called the other morning, Thelma Long, ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Long, 822 East Georgia street, walked into her mother’s bedroom, sleepily rubber her eyes.

Her mother held up her hands in hcrror and demanded: “Why, Thelma, what have you done with your hairr The girl hastily put her hands to her head and found instead of the long flowing locks, the pride of the entire household, only short, stubby bristles. Bhe ran to a mirror and burst Into tears. Mrs. Long, believing the disappearance of the hair was due to a childish prank, cajoled and threatened, but Thelma declared that she did not know what had become of the pretty goldenbrown tresses, which were 15 inches long and which she had worn when she retired. A hasty investigation was made and a door leading to the girl’s bedroom was found open. “Burglars!” exclaimed Mrs. Long.

But nothing except the child’s hair was missing from the home. Mr. Long called police headquarters, and Detectives Simon and Dugas were sent to Investigate. They admitted later that the case had them “stumped.” The detectives have something of a reputation as “confessors,” but they could not get Miss Long to admit that she knew what had become of her treasured locks. "I loved them too much,” she declared when it was suggested that she had cut them off herself. ' ' To add to the mystery, members of the family declare that a dog which is bept in the house at night had been quiet, and that he surely would have caused a disturbance if thieves had entered.