Friday, April 27, 2012

ARRESTED FOR WEARING PANTS

Pacific Grove Review 13 June 1903 - MALE IMPERSONATOR DETECTED AND COMMANDED TO CHANGE HER CLOTHES.  It would seem too bad to send a young woman to jail because she chose to wear pants, at least that was Judge J.H. Browne's opinion of the matter when he was called to his office last night and asked to do something with a woman who had been arrested by the officers for promenading our streets in a coat, vest, trousers and suspenders; even worse, she was in the full dress uniform of a sergeant of the U.S. Army and she bore her stripes nobly. She is young, of good appearance and hails from Monterey, so the judge gave her some good advice about what he thought to be the proper kind of wearing apparel and instructed her to make haste and change.  She was accompanied by an ex-soldier in civilian clothes, from whom she had probably got the uniform, but after the mandate of the court the impersonator lost no time in going to a hotel, while the soldier boy followed his Joan of Arc like a faithful valet.