St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-12

CIRLISH ESCAPADE:.
Helen and Mabel Gilmore,
Brought Here From To-
ronto to Reside,
GROW TIRED OF THE COLD
And the Crude Western PeO-
pie and Run Away to
Chicago,
GROW TIRED OF THE COLD
WHERE THEY ARE FOUND
Sent Home to Their Mother
in Toronto They Could
Not Stand st. Paul.

Helen and Mabel Gilmore, who
secretly left their brothers home, 48
| West Central avenue, this city, on
| Jan. 80, and ran away to Chicago,
| have been found in the latter city,
| and sent to their mother in Toronto.
| The following telegram received yes
| terday from Chicago is considerably
out of joint:
Helen and Mabel Gilmore, of St.
! Paul, Mimi, ran away from their hoS,e
JAN 3d. and are now being sought for in
| Chicago by the police of central sta
| ton.
when at home in st. Paul the girls
lived with their brother and sister,
| Walter c. and Ethel Gilmore, at 49
| West Central avenue. The runaWays
| are eighteen and fifteen years old re-
| spectively, and are described as quite
| pretty and Vivacious, and also as being
stage struck. On the afternoon of Jan.
| 30 the girls told their sister that they
| had received passes to show at the
| Metropolitan opera house. In order to
make their story sound more plausible,
| they mentioned the name Of one of the
women in the company as being the one
| who had been generous enough to sup
ply them with tickets. When Helen
and Mabel
FAILED TO RETURN
that night an inquiry was made among
the members of the company playing
at the theater, but not a member of the
organization knew anything about the
girls. Feb. 2 a letter was received from
Helen, postmarlled Chicago, Feb. l. In
this letter to her sister Helen said thai
she had come to Chicago with her sis
ter, and that she would not have de-
ceived her had it not been that she de-
sired to make her departure certain.
She said that she had met in st. Paul a
certain Mr.. Carter whom she formerly
knew in Toronto, and that he had sent
them to his brother in Chicago, who
gave them work as domestics in his
house. This story of the young woman
is not believed, and the police have
been asked to make thorough canvass
of the theaters and other places. Helen
Gilmore has had a desire to go on the
stage for two or three years, and on
former occasion
ATTEMPTED TO RUN AWAY.
walter Gilmore, her brother, is en-
ployed by the Western Union Telegraph
company, at st. Paul, and is in good
circumstances.
Walter Gilmore, the brother re-
ferred to, was seen by the GLOBE
representative last night, and while
deploring the publicity the escapade
had received, readily consented to talk
about it, desiring that the affair
| should be accurately told.
| The mother of the girls lives in To-
ronto, with her second husband. De-
string to relieve the step-father of
| their care, Walter and his sister Ethel
sent for the two young girls early in
| September, and they reached here
/ about the middle of the month, taking
| up their residence with their brother
| and sister on West Central avenue.
1t was arranged that they should at
| tend school here, and Mabel was adj
mitted to Madison school, while Helen
was left to pursue her studies at home.
They were not satisfied with Ameri-
can customs or American people, and
grew restless and uneasy. To a GER
|
mired the stage She had taken
lessons in elocution and was regarded
as a promising reader, but their real
reason for deserving st. Paul was their
desire to return to mama" They got
| their two wise heads together and con-
| cocted a scheme. Hoyt's "a Temper
ance Town" was playing at the Met
| ropolitan theater and the girls ar
ranged to secure passes to the show
and plotted to tell their sister Ethel
that they had accidentally met men,
Der of the company, Sadie Green by
name, whom they use to know int1-
mately in Toronto, and who was so
delighted to see her little friends that
she gave them passes for the per-
| formance. This was their scheme to
get away from the house, and they
carried it out successfully. They were
such
CLEVER LITTLE ACTRESSES
that Sister Ethel believed the story,
and in high feather the girls set out for
| the theater. Instead of going there,
they made for the union depot, and
took train for Chicago. How they Sc
| cured passage no one knows, but it is
| supposed that once out of st. Paul a
few miles the conductor was TOO good
hearted and humane to make them
leave the train. The tickets are not
collected Immediately upon leaving the
depot, and it is presumed the young
sters in some way became acquainted
with the fact. Immediately upon reach
| ing Chicago, Helen wrote a letter to her
sister in st. Paul, copy Of which is
| given herewith. The little minXes
couldn't stand the crude Western peo-
pie, and, besides, We're tired of Amer
lea, as the letter. which follows, will
show:
Chicago, Feb. dear Ethel: Doubt
less you will be surprised when you
receive this letter, but Mabel and l
have grown tired of the severe cold
of st. Paul and the crude Western
people and have taken the only way
open for us to return to Toronto. On
our way home we VIII remain in Chi
cago a few days with Mr.. Carter S
brother. You will remember meeting
him and his wife in Toronto last win
ter. 1t was too bad for us to deceive
YOU so, but we are not only tired of St
Paul, but of America. Hoping this let
| ter will relieve any anxiety you may
| feel on our account, am, with love to
all HELEN.
P. Slope you will pardon the ex-
! cuse about the theater.
History fails to record how these two
precious youngsters got to Chicago,
but that they reached there is certain
and that, too without any mishap.
They were obliged to resort to the
ruse about the theater, because Their
Brother Walter desired that they
should remain with him, and under nc
circumstances would he have consent
ed to their return to their stepfathel
in Toronto. And still that's where they
are today.