Marietta Youth and Sweetheart Dressed as Man Are Arrested

Marietta Daily Times, January 27, 1912

Travel in Box-Car When Money Gives Out.

"Man" Trying to Get Warm is Discovered to be Pretty Hotel Waitress.

Fall in Love at First Sight When Marietta College Eleven Played Buchtel in Game at Akron.

Delos B. Stull of this city is under arrest in Youngstown in company with Miss Anna Eckert, a pretty hotel waitress of Akron, who had been masquerading for several days as a man and was traveling with Stull in a box car, according to information received here today. Anna was nearly frozen when she got out of the car and while she was trying to get warm, it was discovered that she was not what she pretended to be.

The story of their escapade and their consequent capture and arraignment reads like a chapter of weird fiction.

The Eckert girl, who formerly lived in Akron, was employed as a waitress in the Union Hotel in that city, and had resided there but a short time. She gives her age as 18 years. Stull, who says he is 25, prior to his departure from Akron about 10 days ago, was employed at the plant of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber company and boarded at the Clarendon Hotel.

According to their story, told after their arrest, they ran away from Akron to get married after they had earned enough money to start life together. They went to Jeannette, Pennsylvania, from Akron, but were unsuccessful in finding employment there and started their return trip for Akron. When they reached East Youngstown they were compelled to leave the box car because the girl was almost frozen.

They went to a house and asked to get warm. This they were granted, and during their conversation one of the "men" was discovered to be a woman. Police were notified and arrested the pair on suspicion. The girl could give no good reason for donning the men's togs. She said that her mother lived in Poughkeepsie, New York, and that she had no relatives in Ohio. Stull claimed his home to be in Marietta, where his mother is an instructor in the schools.

The pair, when taken into custody, did not possess a cent of money, but two suit cases containing their clothes, arrived in East Youngstown Monday. They had been sent on from Jeannette C.O.D.

Stull and the Eckert girl took their arrest as a matter of course, but later seemed to grow remorseful. Stull says he met the girl while the Marietta College football team was playing the Buchtel eleven in Akron last fall. He immediately fell in love with her. Consequently he went to Akron and secured a position there, that he might be near her.