A GIRL'S MASQUERADE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 222, 12 September 1908, Page 4

A GIRL'S MASQUERADE.

A girl of fifteen, named fi'liziibctli Archer, was charged at Newcastle-oil-Tyne recently with having defrauded the North-Eastern Railway Company by travelling from Ripon to Newcastle without a ticket. When the case was called what appeared to be a--amart youth stepped into the box, n\tired ill a light suit, and with short-cropped hair, parted in boy's fashion. "This boy is really a girl," said Snpt. Koch to the Itcnch, by way of explanation. Defendant, it appealed, had run away from her home at Walker, got a boy's suit of clothes in Newcastle, changed into them on the beach at Sunderland, and gone to Harrogate, where she got an errand boy's place. After staying there several weeks she went to Newcastle without a ticket. The magistrate ordered a remand. Elizabeth Archer made an intelligentlooking bov. Attired in a light tronser suit, Uerli'c collar ami tie, she looked so much better than the ordinary singe boy that everyone failed to discern that she was masquerading till she came before the keen eye of the matron of Newcastle l'rison. She told the police that she was unhappy, and had determined to leave home. She layl her plans to improve on the modern woman by pot only adopting men's ways, but men's attire. She is stated to nclong to Walker, two miles from Newcastle, and to be the daughter of working parents.