She Wore Men's Clothes
On Walking Tour with Husband, Mrs. Greve Explains-- Police Let Couple Go"
Pittsburg [sic] -- Mrs. Elsie Greve,
recently of New York, but formerly of Berlin, was arrested on crowded
Fifth Avenue this forenoon while walking by the side of her husband, F.
P. Greve of New York, dressed in men's clothes and puffing a cigarette.
Both Mrs. Greve and her husband were taken, protesting, to the central
police station and locked up as suspicious persons.
Both Greve and his wife asserted
that they were subjects of Germany, had done no wrong, and intended no
wrong. If they were not released speedily, they would appeal to the
German Ambassador at Washington to-morrow morning, they said.
Whether
this threat was considered or not is not known, but this evening it was
announced at Police Headquarters that Mrs. Greve and her husband had
been allowed to leave the police station and go on their way, and that
Supt. of Police McQuaide issued a letter to the pair setting forth that
Mrs. Greve and her husband were all right and that the woman was wearing
men's clothes only because she could walk better and keep up with her
husband, who was walking out his vacation.