The Morning herald., 1876-02-17
queer story

lDvss'V'' GIRL.
r,,,,,e Parks, miss Of fifteen ,un- yum
,.p p' away from her i,S home sot IN ,.s.ss Ssn
% i ., s.psa, t evening last; Her s'4 father, Th.s
u D. Parks, is jsweler At -. .''s- sr.mmsr
enas' e.. rrhtv.pinth caI street, and is beloved
P0o u ~. ue eschoolmates. On Wednesday
all her scuv ot"rn from school her moth
ast her a' lesson on the piano, oa' hsr .ne
gave ''..1sss Iss and her mother scoideo Ies. Wa.
$ ea'slsIhs ho"r " the girl was missing. Her
thin al !. nua uormepts could not be found,
ter I'le'' hiawelry and other wearing
..aI lta we're undisturbed. ON THURSDAY
pa'el lh VS. search was instituted among
proGn "a relatiyes, and as no trace OF her
ends a4,ad aGU her ,s father applied to Captain
ouuuf " t the Eighty-eighth street police
o5Ds 5i' a,,ectives y, s, went to work. Several
h. l.sd ur photographs were distributed by
ndea ss.l pDurd and on Friday Mr.. Parks OBJ
ls'n', olue Vonnie had been seen with
nsa ea.ad I,r woman riding through Yorkvi!le,
olv,,a M NV town. The detectives, working
l.!s w. v learned that the girl and the negro
,map man. stepped out of the Car at S'neteen9n
,es' ,'. .rd Mrs. Parks, knowing that Won:
A!' I.s sDr ocouainted with only one colored
ansn nS a servant that had been discharged
'm.1' .ssr employ, Della Tobias by name,
~ y. ,lv ,hat fact known to the detectives, and
a' ,sarned ,a that this servant was at ser
r,h 18th, Mrs. Cove of 400 East Twenty
sona SI street.. But she gave them no satis-
.ti0n nn and there seemed to be no hope OF
sdnr 1na' the missing girl until Sunday even
y v when she voluntarily returned to her
freus' home.
vonuie lr had been four days away and her
|otbipr was not so neat IS she was wont to
|ssr ssr She com planned too Of being footsore
Id ut vpsry and said she had walked all the
[or from Twenty. second street and Ninth
|vrD1,e She said that Della Tobias, who vis.
|sd W Mr. Parks's house two weeks ago, put
into her head that her mother was treat
hc her too much as child. She advised
=, y tn tn r,,n away if she was again rebuked
nv ND told her to come to her. The scolding
lter the music lesson was therefore fol
owed by her flight. The negro woman was
ouud at Mrs. Cowe's. Vonnie was vel
omed to the kitchen. Della, apprehensive
bat her employers might discover Vonnie,
,ut her into q closet and kept her there dur
ng the day ans as far into the evetng a.
here was any danger that the mistress
ught visit her kitchen. At about 9 o'clock
very evening, when the family was busy
bou. evening employments and enjoyments,
Della and Vonnie stole past the library door
md up to their bed in the attic. They then
alked over their plans for the future.
During the first two days, while Vonnie's
ense ofinjury was fresh, she had no desire
o return home, and Della suggested that
he should pawn her cloak, buy morning
uit, and have her her hair dyed with the
proceeds. The negro woman seemed to be
'exed that Vonnie had not some jewslry.
Their want of money, however, was to be
made up by killing Mr.. and Mrs. Parks
md robbing the store. Then Della would
Kill her mother. After this butchery the
hetwo were to 60 somewhere and live on
be proceeds Of the robbery. .-.
After two days of imprisonment In the
lOset the girl began to desire to 10 home,
ut the negro woman threatened to do some
bling desperate If she mentioned any such
hing On Friday evening, after dark, In.
tead Of going to bed as usual, the two stole
ut, and walking over to third avenue, took
be cars, and rode up as far a. Nineteenth
t'eet. They then took a downtown car.
nd rode back to Twenty second street, and
eturned to Mrs. Cowe's. Vonnie spent
aturday alone in the coal hole, all the
nile devising means of escape, On Sun:
E evening she put on her wrsppipgs and
0ldly walked out. Della protested, and
violence, but the girl paid no fur
lef heed to her, and went to friends
VuSe in Eighty-second street, and thence
ls was sent home.