The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-05
CHILD CAST OUT.
Little MOllie Dell Must Go To
BelOit
Because Her Parents Refuse to
Have Her at Home.
SAY SHE is WILLFUL.
The Industrial School For Girls
Good Thing For People
Incompetent or Unwilling to
Rear Children Properly.

A small brown eyed girl of eleven
years, with rosy cheaks and long brown
hair which rests on her shoulders and
wearing a dress of Scotch plaid, is at
police station where she is being cared
for by Police AIatron Thorpe The rea-
son she is there is because her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Dell. of Alb Railroad
street, refuse to receive her at nome
again.
The little girl has cried much since
she has been taken to the women $
ward of the city Jail. But she IS IN
good hands as long as Mrs Thorpe mas
her in charge She will be given the al
vantages Of education and training
She has been sentenced to the indus
trial school for girls at BelOit-
NoIlie Dell looks like a girl of II, but
she is small of stature Her face is in
teIIigent in appearance and her eyes
are expressive The story of her misfor-
tune is a short one Police Matron
Thorpe says that she has been made
dissatisfied with her home by the evil
influence of MarjOry Wallace, the girl
who had Harry Stops sent to the pen
itentiary .MolIie told me that it was
MarjOry Wallace who enticed her away
from home on three occasions, SAID
Mrs Thorpe. The girls parents have
given up the idea of keeping her Mr
Dell who is a Santa Fe shOPman, said:
.sMOIlie has run away from home and we
can't keep her there"
Mrs. Dell said: I have done all I
could for Monie, but have given it
up
Tuesday AIoIIie Dell went to the Rock
Island depot where she boarded a train
and went to Alma She staid all night
at a hotel where she was cared for by
the women in the hotel The Topeka
police department was notified and Mol
lie was brought back and placed in Mrs.
Thorpe's custody. The girl. when ques-
toned, said: My papa and mamma
don't want me. They say do not be-
long at home They always scoId me
and keep me from school so much that
the other girls get ahead of me. They
won't get me any clothes like the other
girls wear. Mamma told me she wished
some man would take me a hundred
miles away. So told her I would go,
and find a home She said, All right
So I got ready and took a dollar of
mammals, and an old man named Mar
tin showed me where to get my ticket.
I went to Alma and they took me to
hotel. They did not charge me any
thilig for slept with the hired girls. -
The narrative of her adventure was
told with childish innocence When
Police AIatron Thorpe suggested that
it would probably be best for MollIe to
go back and try to live again with her
parents. she turned toward the matron
nervousIy and said; 20 please don't
send me back home They will whip
me so. Please Mrs Thorpe, get me
place to work for my board and go to
school
I'VE have tried to manage AIoIIfe''
said John Dell. in speaking of his treat
ment of the child But we have not
whipped her anything like she deserved
She is wilIful and has kept the company
Of a girl who has done her much harm
Mollie Dell sleeps on a couch in the
matron's Office and she viii be kept
there until arrangements can be made
to take her to the Beloit institution