The evening world., 1893-10-25
MADE HER A DRUDGE.
SO Little Emma Sweet Ran Away
from Her Mother and Stepfather.
SHE WANTED TO GO TO SUNDAY.
SCHOOL, BUT COULD NOT.
TO LIVE WITH HER GRANDPARENTS.

Repeated refusals to allow her to at
tend Sunday-school. as well as the III
treatment she received. Is the alleged
cause that led fourteen-year-old Emma
Sweet to run away from the home OF her
mother and stepfather In East Marion.
l.. l., last Friday. She trampej over six
miles CT dusty country road before she
became exhausted. and stopped at the
home OF Mrs. d. Conklln. two miles west
of ~Grcenport.
Seventeen years ago John Urls. son
Of William Urls. a w~ell-known Brooklyn
builder. met and welded Miss Fely. the
pretty daughter Of Francis Fely, n
wealthy pawnbroker. doing business at
No. b5 Court street. For seven years
hey lived q happy life. Two children
were born to them. a boy and n girl.
Tn girl was named Emma. = Trouble
arose between the couple. Divorce pro-
ceilings were begun by Urls. who named
CT. Sweet as correspondent The divorce
charge Of The. boy. while the dlveresd
VIE and. mother took the. girl. Two
months later Mrs. Urls became the
They went to live at East Marion.
where the little girl was reared. As she
grew older Emma learned from her COM
panions AL about, Sunday-schools, and
one. To this her mother and stepfather.
who are spiritualists, raised n strenuous
objection. Then the child was put to
work about the house. Last summer her
was made to work very hard. she say
Emma did her best to please her par
ents; Her efforts. however. seemed un-
availing. as, 1t is alleged. her stepfather
frequently whipped her.
She left her home early Friday morn.
Ing. without telling. her parents. and
started along the South road. After
tired n stopped at the Conklin home.
She said she did not know where she
was going. nor did she care 20 long as
she got out Of her stepfather's reach.
return to her, home. the child showed
great fear and said she would kill her
self first. Mrs. Conklin took the little
taken In charge by Constable Detmold
Reeve. Mrs. Reeve showed IA kindly in
terest. In Emma and soon became con-
WINGED that she had been cruelty treated
and overworked.
on Saturday. as he family was sit
ting down to dinner. the hid father
drove up to the house and asked for
Sweet made another. call at the Reeve
home on Sunday, while his s%tepdaugh-
ter was at chu; CHI. He again asked the
constable for his daughter, and said he
couldn't understand why she left hcme.
as. he claimed. she had been treated a
well as other children.
Just before leaving Sweet said ne
believed that several persons were try
Ing to get Emma In their possession and
thereby gain control of the fortune which
her mothers father would some day
leave her. Sweet called again Monday
and asked Emma to go to the home OF
her grandfather, on her fathers side.
She agreed to do thfs, and she was sent
to Brooklyn on a train She arrived at
her grandfather's home, at No. $50 Put
nam venue. late in the afternoon.
She was seen there last evening by a
World reporter. She is n pretty little
miss with dark brown hair and deep
blue eyes. She was seated in a big
rocking-chair. busy with some fancy
work, when the reporter entered the
Of her life with her stepfather. HE
stand" said she. Then i wanted to
attend Sunday school. but my parents
wouldn't allow me to. except upon one
or two occasions"
The story of her long travel from East
Marion to the home OF Mrs. Conklln was
retold. and th.,n she said:
I'd rather kill myself before their
eyes ths n return to that home. NY
mother and stepfather do not believe in
God and would not ALLOW me to speak OF
him." Mr.. Urls, the child's grand
father. said that had he known tina
Emma was being ill-treated he would
have taken charge of her long ago. The
child will make her home with her
grandparents. with whom her brother
has lived for ten years.