The herald., 1895-10-06

nave TO De kdfrangeo. Ino snerlu also
had to advance money to get ono or two
articles pawned by Ranged. aud also pay
So which = French cook claimed he hal
been robbed of, after which the charge
was dismissed and ne was allowed 10 de-
part with the prisoners.
THE LEPAGE GIRLS STATEMENT.
Adelaide Lepage was interviewed in the
county Jail by Herald reporter shortly
after her arrival. She talked very freely
of the affair, AM claims that she did not
pursuade the Pavlides child to run away,
and says that the latter and Ranged were
to blame.
TIE Lepage girl is only II years of age,
she claims, aud she told her story in a
straightforward way.
''On the Sunday before we left she
said, 'the little girl told me that she was
going tn run away and asked If | would
not lend her some money to leave on the
cars. l said that the police might get
after her, but she replied that she would
leave note home for her father telling
him not to follow her. l told her that If
she would give me the money back. why.
she could have it, and she and Ranged
said all right. that they would do so. On
the next day | gaze them 81. DR.. FaV-
lides and his wife stayed out late Monday
night and before they returned Adrienne
mad gone out and met Ranged at the
They got on the car and rode to the cor
ner of Spring and Third streets, where they
waited for me. We got into carriage
there and were driven to the Arcade
hotel.
.'Rsngod wrote his name in the book as
Edward Julien. wife and sister,
was the sister. We got one room and
stayed there that night, ana then got
tickets the next morning and left for
Ventura. We went to q hotel and ! got
a room by myself. and Ranged and the
little girl occupied one together. stayed
at the hotel just one day, and then l
went to work in a French laundry. The
next morning the little girl came TO see
me and asked If had heard anybody
talking In the laundry about us, and If
had any of the Los Angeles papers. but
had none. She aud Ranged stayed at the
see me- during that time, but Adrian
would come about every three or four
days.
Ranged saie that he wanted to get
work and after he would have worked six
months or mure he would marry adrian.
AT last they said that they were going
to Santa Barbara. and went away. they
told me, last Saturday. The man at the
hotel came to the laundry and said that
they ad not paid him, and wanted to
know If would give him what they
owed. He threatened to have them ar
reSteu, ana sal tnat ulun want MIN
to do that, so 1 would settle. 1 have not
paid the money yet. though.
They arrested me in Ventura yesterday
morning. A man came to the. laundry
and said that | was Adelaide LePage.
FIRST said no. | was not-and then | con.
fessed. He told me that would have to
come with him, 30 I went and got
ready"
RANGOD REFUSES TO TALK.
in, ha saH uo 10
an insignificatnt looking fellow and in
all probability is the one most to blame.
He knows perfectly we'll what he has
done, but refused to make any stat ement
to the reporter.
DR.. PAvLIDES TALKS
DR.. Pavlides conversed very freely with
reporter about the abduction of his
daughter Adrienne. The doctor declined
little girl, but told himself. what the child
had said to him.
My daughter told me-" be said,
that Rangot had passed night IN a
house sometime before they left the city.
at Santa Barbara he made her receive the
attention Of other men and took the
money that she got. He told her that he
wanted to take her to Denver to live
with his mother, and as his mother con-
du.ts q place of questionable character
his intentions regarding my child are, OF
course, very evident.
1.-The child said that the reason she
had run away was because she wanted
more license than we allowed her, She
bad no idea of the wrong she was COM
mitting until talked with her.
I'm regard to Rangot, I will prosecute
him for rape. and endeavor to have him
punished. The Lepage girl will also be
prosecuted. Had it not been TOR her sup
plying them with the money they could
not have gone away.
II shall await the action of the courts
in the prosecutions. and then l will de-
eide where my girl will BE put. We do
not know which is the best institution
In which to place her, but will learn as
soon as the cases against the two other
people are finished. We will keep the
child in some school until she is Is years
old.