Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1915 — NEGRO GIRL ON NO. 37 TRiED TO DISROBE [ARTICLE]

NEGRO GIRL ON NO. 37 TRiED TO DISROBE

Apparently Doped She Tore Clothing Off and Caused Consternation Among Passengers. A negro girl, said to be 16 or 17 years of age, created consternation on passenger train No. 37, due here from Chicago at 11:20 today, when she began to tear her clothing off. She was in a seat near the rear of the day coach in which there were several passengers, both ladies and gentlemen. She boarded the train in Chicago and had a ticket for Indianapolis. She began singing soon after the train left Hammond and her tones were neither musical nor refined. When the train was near Shelby she changed her singing to shouting and then began tearig at her clothes. She took off her waist and skirt and when the trainmen were secured and forced her to stop she was almost altogether naked. She was wrapped in her clothes and taken to a rear coach and a guard placed over her. While her singing indicated that she was intoxicated, a passenger who left the train here said that he was quite close to her and there was no indication of liquor on her breath and he believed she was “doped.” Whether drunk, doped or dippy, she caused plenty of excitement and furiished a diversion that was mortify-" ing to passengers ahd train crew. She had quieted down when the train reached this city and was permitted to remain on the train.