The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-10
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EMMA AND ELLA FLEE
They Started for Sunday
School But Hope to End
Up on the Stage.
PROMINENT IN HORTHBApTISY CHURCH
There Is a Mysterious Youth Wit
Football Hair-Descriptions
No One Could Mistake.
PROMINENT IN NORTH BAPTIST CHURCH

Two little maids from Sunday School
took French leave of their parents Sum
day afternoon last. They were Emma
Baldwin, sixteen years old, of No. S62
Eighth street, and Ella Willmott, fifteen
years old, of No. 2131a Fourth street. Both
are booked for a sound spanking when
they return, which it is believed VIII be
before very long.
The anxious parents left no stone I'M
turned to find the runaways,- and with a
view to keeping the actions of their re-
spective daughters from becoming public,
did not report their disappearance to the
police until this morning. AS a conse-
quence Chief Murphy imagines the young
runaway have put as great a distance
between themselves and this city as pos
sible. The police of New York, Brooklyn,
Philadelphia, Newark and other large
cities have been requested to be on the
lookout for the girls.
The stage struck maidens are not pretty,
NOR have they. as far as can be learned,
any qualifications to warrant them be-
lieving thai they viii be received with
open arms by the realtors of ballets.
oped. Her charms, it would appear, end
ppend. Her charms it would appear, end
there, as the description furnished the
police by her parents is not fattering.
For a starter she has decayed teeth and
a large mouth. Although sixteen she
appears and looks younger. Outside Of
her development, which forms the greater
part of her description, there were, when
she left home, a light tan dress and a
sacque of similar color to identify her.
She is a blonde. but has, according to
her parents, dark brown eyes and light
f.rou-a f,afr tho Ioftar uyha+hap nv nafIlra
or the application of a wash is not known.
"She leads in conversation" her par
ents say, which means, Chief Murphy
says, that she is somewhat of a talker.
She carried, when she left home. a small,
old, worn satchel. 1t is thought she is
still carrying it. as ii is supposed to con-
tain all the dresses she possesses and
several costumes in which she proposes
astonishing or amusing the occupants of
the bald-headed row of the first theatre
in which she secures an engagement.
Miss Willmott, although fifteen years
old, is also said to act as though she were
only twelve or thirteen When she APP
piles for a position, she will, if she con-
fines herself to facts, say, as her par
ents have, IT have long feet, am left
a degree that makes it a deformity."
In addition to this description the police
have found that Miss Willmott is a bru-
nette and has small features and brown
eyes. When she left home she wore a
gTeen check dress. green skirt and waist,
buttoned in the back; black round hat,
trimmed with light green ribbons, black
quilts and bows, which are long and run
straight across the front.
The departure of the young women
was premeditated. All last week they
prepared for it and from time to time
secreted such clothes as they believed they
would need in the basement of Miss Bald
win home. Both We're prominent work
ers in the North Baptist Church at Jer-
sey avenue and Third street, and took an
active interest in the Sunday School work
OF that church.
i They ave at various times taken part
lsn church entertainments and sociables,
said, in amateur theatricals. They en-
jeyed a large circle of acquaintance
the anxious parents that Emma and
Ella had frequently been heard to re-
mark that they intended adopting the
histrionic profession. These assertions
we're always regarded as jests until re-
Gently, when it is alleged the girls fell
n with a young mar who has football
the stage. the hit he was going to make
some day, the money he would have to
7 and the good clothes to give away.
The name of the footbali-haired youth
Chief Murphy refuses to reveal at this
time, giving as his reason that as soon
as detectives locate him it will probably
De easy to find the runaway girls.
The Baldwin girl is known to have had
$50 when she left home. That sun rep
resented her own savings and a little of
the savings Of some other members of
the family. it is said. How much money
Ella Willmott had or whether she had
any or not is not known.
The girls left their respective homes
shortly after two o'clock Sunday after
noon, attired. in their best, representing
tending Sunday School in the North Bap-
tist Church as usual. In leaving home
the girls babe their parents an affection
ate adieu. They met at Jersey avenue
anu f5fG3ith q street hV aa1@pEO1en+ tho
baldwin girl carrying all their traps to
that point Which way they went the
police have been unable to determine. no
ore who lives in the neighborhood recol-
lecfing having seen the girls at all.
Chief Murphy is of the opinion that
they VIII return as soon as their money
is spent. He is not going to abandon the
search for them, however, as he fears
tnat shame might prompt them to remain
finding employment.
The action of the girls has caused a
sensation in North Baptist Church circles
and also among their young acauaint-
ances, who declare tina the runaways
were quiet. modest girls.
1t developed this afternoon that Mrs.
W1dsey, Janftress of the house in which
the Baldwin girl lived, saw the two girls
rumagfng about the cellar of the fat on
Sunday morning and heard them talking
about clothes. About the same time she
noticed two young men standing ON the
Sidewalk opposite the house. She recog-
nized enc Of the men as George Kirchner,
Of No. S46 Payonia avenue.
Kirchner admitted this afternoon that
he saw the girls on Sunday before thew
left the city. His companion was George
Fley. He said they walked as far as
brunswick and Eighth streets with the
girls and urged them both to return In
their homes. Where Fley lives no one
seems to know.
Kirchner says he used to pay attention
to Miss Baldwin. They auarreled and
Kirchner made room for Charles Ketch-
I'm, who lives at No. 33s Fifth street.
Last Saturday night Kirchner met Miss
Baldwin. She told him she had had
trouble at home and intended leaving the
city. She also confded in him. he saws.
that Annie Wilmott was to ACCOMPANY
her He endeaeored to dissuade her from
her intention but to no avail.
Philadelphia. Miss Baldwin having in
formed Kirchner she intended going there
first.