The morning call., 1894-11-19
A GIRLIsH FREAK.
Ethel Farley's- Strange
Disappearance.
Because She Is Suspended From
School She Causes fer Par
ents Much Trouble.

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Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Farley. 223 Fair
Oaks street, are considerably worried over
the disappe of their fifteen-year-old
daughter. Ethel, last Friday. She was a
pupil in the Horace. Mann Grammar
School on Valencia street, between
Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets.
Last Friday morning she was sus pended
for one week from school by Joseph
O'Conner, the principal, on complaint of
her teacher, Miss KershaW, for firing
paper balls, one OF which hit the teacher.
A similar sentence was imposed upon
Susie ODnnnell, another pupil, for; like
offense. Ethel is a high-strung. sensitive
girl. and Immediately went to the princi-
pals room to ask for hearing, but 1t was
denied her. She spent the recess hour in
writing, and about half-past IL O'Clock
she HANDED two notes she had written to
Edith Brolly; the daughter OF neighbor.
One was addressed to her mother and the
other TO her father. She asked Edith to
deliver the notes when she went home to
lunch. The one addressed to her mother
detailed what had led to her sentence of
expulsion, and concluded by saying: II
don't want to live and be under uspen sion
in school," The one tt her father was
briefer but to the same effect.
Mrs. Farley hurried to he school on re-
ceiying the note and found to Ter grief
that Ethel had not been seen from the
time she handed the notes to Edith Brolly.
Since then a search has been made by the
distracted parents and their friends for
the girl. but wtho ut success.
Shortly after noon on Friday, Ethel was
seen on Page street, near Laguna, by one
of her schOOlmates. and that afternoon
about O'Clock neighb0r saw her cross
ing market street. in the direction of Fifth
street. That was the last seen OF heard of
her. :.4
Last night a description of her was
read &c the details at the different police
stations and Captain Lees instructed De-
tectiYe Anthony, whose special duty is to
look after missing girls, to take her case
in hand. "
Ethel is tail and well-develsped girl
for her age. Her hair Is dark and short,
fair complexion, brown eyes, heavily
lashed. She wore a light wooden dress,
trimmed wish navy blue, white sailor hat
with feathers in ii and trimmed with black
velvet. She had only 10cents In her pocket
when she left home to GO TO school on Fri
day morning. She. was a good eiocution-
ist for her age and has recited at enter
tainments given by the A: o. U. w: lodge
OF which her father is a. member.
While the parents do not believe that
she would commit suicide they are afraid
that her. supersensitiveness will prevent
her returning home, for fear that they
might compel Der togo back to the Horace
Mann Grammar School again.
;.tShe need not be- afraid of that" said
her mother last night. with tears IL her
eyes. eff she would only come back we
would gladly remove to. another part of
the city or to some other town. SO that she
could go TO a school where she would not
be known Or if she aid not care to 60 to
public school. again we would be only
too glad 10 send her to private school to
finish her education. want her back
again, and if she could only know how we
suffer from her absence | am sure she
would hasten back to u.s."
J., MF. Farley rs a .pressman on an evening
paper. and feels keenly the publicity given
to mis- daughters disappearance.