Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1901 — A DARING GIRL. [ARTICLE]

A DARING GIRL.

Pretty Susan Shelly Has Many Thrilling Adventures. Pretty and accomplished Susan Shelly of Shellingrove, Pa., has recently acquired considerable notoriety by her many deeds of daring that would challenge the bravado of the most dashing cowboy of the wild west. She is well known to the citizens of Freeburg,Snyder county, and vicinity. She Is 21 years of age, highly educated, and but for the publicity given her for wearing male attire, playing hobo and hold-up of a train near Richmond, Ind., within the past fortnight,her Freeburg friends and acquaintances would only think of her as the pretty, witty and accomplished singer and pianist as she was ten years ago. It seems her motive in leading a temporary life of dime novel romance is to imbue her with the true spirit of the real and practical in the realm of daring and adventure to enable her to write a book containing her experiences as a tramp and railroad hold-up. Professor H. B. Moyer, director of the Freeburg Music College, says of Miss Shelly: "She was a student at the music college here when hardly 12 years old. After the lapse of some years, having in the meantime taken a thorough course in the New York College of Oratory and Music, she returned to Freeburg and filled the chair of elocution. Her ideal of life seemed to be centered around some vocation in which the physical activities were called into frequent requisition. She was always preparing for some definite work.” It is folly to draw a bill oa a blind man payable at sight.