Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1919 — SHE KIDS THE UNDERTAKERS [ARTICLE]

SHE KIDS THE UNDERTAKERS

Sixteen-Year-Old Pennsylvania Girl Calls Them Up With Fake Death Stories. Allentown, Pa.—Charged with having sent all the seven local undertakers on wild goose chases through fake telephone calls, Elsie Orcorto, aged sixteen, was taken into custody by the local police and put in charge of the probation officer, Thomas B. Kellow. Several rural undertakers were alse among,her alleged victims.' It is chatged that the girl summoned the funerrfl directors to a number of local homes by telephone on representations that a member of the family had died.