The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-17

all that she wanted to eat and drink. The
1oo was finally accomplished. and then he
took her to Heber City, where he lives, and
| where she found kind hearts and willing
hands to attend to her.
| Yesterday he started for Tooele, and
there he will swear out complaint against
the people who have treated her so bru-
tally, and will see to it that they are
brought to the justice that they SO fully de-
serve.
"The case is actually one of the most
heartless OF its kind on record, and the
people that would be guilty of such a deed
must be very bad indeed. The matter of
sending her away was bad enough God
knows, but their action in telling the child
that she must not appeal to anyone, for
that IS what their warning amounted to, is
absolutely tiendish. 1t would seem that
they wanted her to go out and starve to
death, aud that they planned to that end.
When found, the little girl was in an
emaciated condition and had had nothing to
eat for nearly three days and was almost
famished for water. The Transformations
live at what is called Box Elder ranch,
which is about ten miles above Grantsville,
in the county of Box Elder. The inhuman
| people Will have chance to answer to the
courts for the deed and it is hoped that
they will be made to suffer for their &C.
tions.''
These old people are greatly enraged
ABOUT the appearance of the above in the
Tribune, and say the child ran away on Sat
urday, about pm, and was found Sun
day, about noon. That she went away uu-
known to any member of the family, and
that when she was missed every member Of
the family spent the night il search. When
Mrs. F'ernstermaker found the child at
Mrs. Coleman's, near Tooele City, she was
anxious and did return home with her.
They say that the child has a monomania
for running off, and that this was the
fourth time she had run away since Octo-
Der, 1889. First time she hid in the barn
over night; second time she went out with
her little wagon to get chips and although
there was slight snow on the ground and
the child was thinly clad, yet she aban-
doned her wagon and ran toward the noun
tains. Five persons spent the night in
search, as it was cold enough to
freeze the child to death. They found
her the next day about 2 p. M,
In deep gulch, and her little toes
were frozen. The next time she ran away
with little pup in her arms, and after six
hours search was found by the aid of a
| bloodhound on South Willow ridge. In
August of last year she ran away again
early In the morning and was found by the
hired girl after sunset. Five persons had
spent the day in searching for her. Our
informant spent the night at Box Elder
ranch and talked to little Caroline person
ally, out of the presence of the Fernster-
makers, and the child said the day she ran
away the last time she had not been whip
ped or abused, and had not been told to
leave; that she did not know why she ran
away; that the folks had never whipped or
abused her; that the time she abandoned
her little wagon she saw something black
that told her to run away The child
knows her letters but cannot read She
talks sensibly in answer to questions, but
has strange look about the eyes that sug-
gests monomanla.
1t is all bosh about complaint being
sworn out against these people, but they
viii see to IT that the paper that published
the above libelous article, and all persons
that had anything to do with it are held to
answer.