GIRL AS POLICEMAN.
ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE DEFEATED
BY HER BOOTS.
ST PETERSBURG, May 20,
A girl student, aged eighteen, was arrested hero last week b*y the secret police on a charge of being a revolutionary. While she was left alone iu a, room at the police station for some minutes sho dressed herself in tho hat, overcoat and sword of a police, officer which were hanging'on the wall and walked boldly out of "tho room. Her disguise was not detected until she had reached the entrance to tho police station, where sho was betrayed by her boots. A policeman on duty notioed her feet and at once challenged and "re-arrested Ki>K'■
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11092, 1 June 1914, Page 5
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111GIRL AS POLICEMAN. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11092, 1 June 1914, Page 5
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