The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-18
TWO YOUNG GIRLS MISSING.
Mabel Banks and Anna Prothero Have Len
 Their Homes and Cannot be Found.

Mabel Banks and Anna Prothero Have Lef | Their Homes and Cannot be Found.
 Hartford. July I7.-Mabel Banks, thu
 fifteen-year- old daughter of Edward A
 Banks. who lives in the rear of Riee'i
 court. on Albany avenue. has beer
 missing since Thursday night.
 On Thursday she did some housewori
 for family on Putnim street. She hae
 tald her mother when leaving thu
 house. that on her way back she would
 stop at the band concert. She left hei
 work at 7:s0 in the evening and stopped
 on the park to listen to the concert
 being given by Colts band. She saw
 il girl friend and together they were
 seen walking around the park with two
 men. One of the persons who saw them
 was Mabei's brother.
 As 1t grew later Mrs. Banks began tc
 worry about her daughter. Her sor
 said he had seen her on the park witf
 the two men. but that was all the in'
 formation concerning her that could
 be got. Her father and mother search
 ed the streets all night long for theii
 daughter. but they could Ind no traces
 of her.
 Both the father and mother have
 since made every effort to find the girl
 The case has been put into the hands
 of the police. but they could find nc
 clue to the girls whereabouts.
 It is said by one of Mabels ac. quaintances chat she told her that she
 was going to run away the first chance she got. She had to work very hard,
 doing a good part of the washing taken
 in by her mother.
 Her parents think she is in Hart ford somewhere and scout the idea that
 she has run away. They think 1t pos
 sible that she may have been beguiled away by some one, who keeps her in duress.
 ANNA PRoTHERo's EscAPADE. Hartford, July 17.-Anna Prothero, eighteen years old. the daughter of John Prothero of No. 97 Jefferson street, left her home without apparent cause Sunday, June r. and although she has been traced and could probably
 be found in few hours she has not returned, neither has her father yet gone after her. Anna worked as a bookkeeper for Culin M. Shippee at his market, No. 94 Albany avenue, and
 boarded with her parents. She re- ceived $6 a week and regularly turned over the money to her stepmother in payment for her board and clothes. She was a girl of apparently exem- plary character and habits, was regu- lar attendant with her father at St. James Episcopal church and taught class in the Sunday school. Her home life was happy and she appeared to be contented. She did not appear to seek the society of men, but seemed rather to be indifferent to the atten- tions of young men. Nothing in her actions led her parents to suspect that she was otherwise than contented with her lot, but it has since occurred to others that for two or three weeks previous to her leaving she appeared to be somewhat absent-minded, pre- occupied and to have a vacant look in her eyes.
 On Saturday, June 16, Miss Prothero hung up her apron in the office of the market as usual and left the store with the expectation on the part of her employer that she would return to her desk Monday morning. She went straight home and on Sunday af- ternoon took her sister Grace, aged nine, and her half-brother, Park, aged five, to Glastonbury on the electric cars. On their return she placed the children on horse car for home, tell ing them that she was going to her grandmother, Mrs. Backus, on North Main street, and would soon return. She visited her grandmother but did not stay long and did not return home that night. On Monday, during the Bunker Hill day military parade, she was seen on the train going toward Springfield. She had evidently then formed her determination not to return home, but before leaving the city she wrote her parents that she had always been obedient to them, but was now going to have her own way and was about leaving the city. She advised them that it would be useless to search for her. The letter was mailed in this city before 10 o'clock that day. It is not known that Miss Prothero had any more money with her than her weeks wages. A few days later she was seen in Providence, R. I.
 MT. Prothero communicated with the police and through correspondence with other cities 1t was learned that his or a girl answering her de- stopped for several days at the City hotel, Providence, under an name. On June 27 she hired a room of Mrs. Paterson, No. 1e9 East avenue, Pawtucket, where she remained until July z. While there she wrote several letters to one address in this city. She left Mrs. Paterson's, stating that she was going to the Maple house. Maple street, Worcester, Mass.
 Her parents are very anxious to have her return and say they cannot account for her leaving. There are various theories afloat as to the cause for her departure. Miss Prothero is quite a handsome young woman, large and f1eshy, and would attract attention l anywhere. She is quite tall, has med l um dark brown hair, hazel eyes and | weighs 165 pounds. She wore, when she |