The record-union., 1897-06-18
BOUND TO BE ACTRESSES.
Two Misguided Reno Girls Who Came
Here.
They Do Not Repent Their Rash Act
And One Viii be Sent
Back.

Two fifteen-year- girls, Ella Col
linson and Kate Williams. left their
homes in Reno, New, 10 seek fortune
and battle With the worid-to gain fame
as actresses and return after many
years bearing with them untold veal tn
and the plaudits of the multitude.
The Sacramento authorities were no.
titled that the ruawas had taken a
west-bound train, and yesterday after
noon Officer Talbot located and arrest
ed the pair of young adventuresses at
the State House Hotel.
The accounts from the Reno author
tiles had been brief in the extreme, and
they We're Immediately communicated
with respecting what disposition was
TO be made of the prisoners.
Constable McNealy of Reno tele-
graphed a reply requesting the local
authorities to hold the Collinson girl.
but release Kitty Williams, who was
not wanted.
But, owing TO the extreme youth or
the girl, the police department does not
intend that she shall be thrown upon
the mercies of the cold world without
an effort to save her, and with that end
in view City Attorney Brown has
placed himself in communication with
the Society for the Prevention of Cru
city to Cildrenh, through its officer, Dan
Healy, and it is expected that the child
viii be provided for
Ella Collinson is a pale, thin slip of a
girl, apparently not more than l. years
of age She is vivacious enough, and
seems to be bright enough but seems
to be entirely wrapped up in the Will
Jams girl, who is much larger and
stronger, and who has, apparently,
rubbed shoulders with the world. To a
Record Union reporter she said she
didn't want to go back home, but want
ed to stay with Kate.
Katie Williams said she did not want
to go home for the simple reason that
she had none. Her mother, she said,
was dead, and her father is in Quincy,
Plumas County. She had been working
in Reno as a domestic and attending
school, and that her only intention in
leaving was to find work to do in San
Francisco.
From the story told by the two girls
Jim Crow barn storming aggregation
Of alleged players visited Reno some
time ago, some of the members Of which
imbued them and two other girls with
the idea that they were especially
fitted for actresses. The plausible talk
ers told them that they would receive
at least $50 a week for their efforts in
the actress line, and that they would
be called upon to join the afore-men-
toned -storming aggregation in
July
Ella Collinson, Katie Williams and
two other girls, they said had planned
to take the west-bound train Tuesday
night, but the other two had backed
out at the last moment and advised
waiting until Wednesday night. This
the two children who are being taken
care of at the police station declined.
and when the train rolled out they
climbed upon the steps of a Pullman
sleeper and pulling their wraps over
their heads, passed muster as squaws
bound for California. Truckee was sue
eessfully passed, and all went we'll until
Emigrant Gap was reached. where they
We're discovered and dislodged by the
trainmen.
They took passage from Emigrant
Gap to Sacramento on the next train,
the Collnson girl travelling half-fare,
and when arrested had IS in their
pockets.
Both children wore short dresses, and
neither is sorry for her rash act. The
smaller girl says she lived with her
grandmother in Reno, and imagines
that her life was not bed of roses.
She stoutly persisted that she had no
inclination to return home. A Reno Of
ficer viii arrive to-day and take the
tiny young lady back with him.