A GIRL'S FREAK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1908, Page 5

A GIRL'S FREAK.

■ MASQUERADES AS A MAN. WARRANT FOR HER' ARREST. MELBOURNE, October 5. lhe police are searching for a girl named Adelaide Maude Lyons, aged 16, who is somewhere about the city masquerading in man's clothing. The warlant, issued at the instance of her mother, charges the girl with vagrancy, but she is also wanted by the police for the larceny of the clothing she is wearing, which is the property of Mr. William H.- Cole, a young dentist, who resides at Earrant's restaurant, Exhibi-tion-street. Adelaide Lyons, a well grown, good-looking girl, 5 feet 6 inches high, was on Thursday last sent by her mother from her home in York-street, Frahran, to go to work at the rooms of a dressmaker in Williams-road. She •lid not put in an appearance there, and as she did not return home her mother on Saturday took out a warrant for her apprehension. On Saturday Mr. Cole, on going to his rooms at his lodgings, miss•>d a suit of clothes, with boots and hat, and on looking around he was amazed to find a feminine "rig out" complete, including a luxuriant crop of long hair, had been left in exchange. He did not consider it a fair exchange, and as he had no desire whatever to obscure his identity in feminine furbelows, he made much ado in. the house, and reported the theft to the police. It was thereupon discovered that a girl who had looked a room as "Miss Williams" was missing, and that the raiment, hair, etc., under Mr. Cole's bed, were what she had worn. Further investigation led to the discovery that on Saturday afternoon, a '■'young man," who to the practised eye ,cf the barber was must assuredly and unmistakably "a girl," had come in and had her roughly shorn hair artistically trimmed up like a man's. In fact, she made the deplorable blunder when asked how she wanted it cut of saying "like a man's." Why she was "togged up" like a. man was none of the barber's business. He thought she was some giddy girl having some fun of her own, so he cut her hair* and she went away. The clothes she left in. Farrant's restaurant have been identified by Mrs, Lyons as those of her daughter. She has not been seen since, and though the police are very sanguine about capturing her, there is no certainty about it, because she is boyish in appearance, and a_ the new spring suit she is wearing is just her fit she may easily pass muster as a city lad. Miss "Bill" Edwards, who successfully evaded detection for years, and who is now still in man's clothes, acting as a bar tender in a Fitzroy hotel, is an illustration of how hard it is to pick this kind of a masquerader. "A