The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-06-21

had enjoyed herself she would have TO set
the table for supper, which she did in
| good humor. After supper we came on the
| porch and she and her little brother took
| up some picture books and were soon in
| high glee over. the pictures and jokes. l
| cautioned her to make less noise, as her
| father, who works at the rolling mill, had
| retired in order to get up at o'clock.
I'm short time she said she was going to
| bed, and we all went in. She asked her
| sister what She was going to do In the
morning and she told her she was going
| up town to buy a dress. had promised to
| buy her a jeweled belt and told her she
might go with her sister in the morning to
| get 1t. She seemed much e1ated and SAID
| she did not want one for less than dollar
| She exclaimed: Wont shine when l get
| that belt?"
| presently she fell asleep and we all
/ retired About u o'clock her sister. who
| occupies the same bed with her. awoke
and found Alice missing. She at once re-
| ported the matter to me, and after look
| ing around the room and finding no trace
| of her l called her father, who got up.
| At first we were not alarmed, as the child
| often walked in her Sleep and thought
| that she had perhaps gotten up and was
wandering around. We searched every
where bat could find nothing of her The
| back door of the dining room, which leads
to the back yard and thence to the alley
bolted. None of her clothes were missing,
| even the shoes and stockings she had taken
| off before retiring were In the place she
| had put them.
"If she met those boys, as it said she
| did, She was induced to do so, and l would
| like to take knife and cut their throats
| I never allowed her TO go out at night I'M
| less her father or myself were with her,
| and never saw her with boy.
"She rs a mere child. and fear some
| harm has come to her,"
Found at Woodlawn
Late yesterday afternoon crowd OF
small boys went to Village creek, probably
| two miles from Woodlawn, to go In pain,
ing. They were startled by young glri
LAYING on a rock with half her body and
her hair in the water. Y.
| She seemed to have tainted but was re-
vived in a few moments. When questioned
| she said her name was Alice Wagner, or
| Alice Mitchell and that she had stayed out
with two boys too late the night before ana
was afraid to go home She said she had
an engagement to meet one of them last
night and she was going to New York with
him: \
The boys could not get her to leave the
creek and they went on home and left her.
She said she would lay in the woods until
night and then come to town to meet her
friend.
Later a searching party was formed, but
she could not be found and more was
heard of her until~she was found at East
Lake.
Some of the youngsters thought the girl
was trying to commit suicide, but later de-
velopments failed to confirm this.
She was described as wearing a blue
dotted wrapper with no hat nor shoes (Her
mother asserts that she wore nothing away
from the house but skirt)
The police department was at once not-
fled of the discovery.
Rescued at East Lake
About $3.50 O'Clock last night Motorman
Jordan, of the wrecking car on the East
Lake electric line, telephoned to police
headquarters that a girl answering the de-
scription of the missing child had been
wande q G around near Woodlawn during
the morning, and later that she had been
found in Village Creek by some boys. ot-
fcer Disharoon and Desk Sergeant John
Rowlett were detailed by Captain Weir
to go at once to Woodlawn and were joined
by Frank Wagner, the father of the girl.
When they arrived at Woodawn they
learned that the child had gone towards
East Lake and Immediately took the
car for that place. They did not have
to go to East Lake, however, as the girl
was on the first incoming car they met in
charge of several gentlemen who had
found her at East Lake and knowing the
circumstances of her disappearance were
bringing her home.
After leaving NOOulaWn SHe WAS HeAl
seen at Wohumma Station, and is then sup
posed to have made her way in the woods
near the railroad track to East Lake.
where she attempted to drown herself in
the lake, but was prevented by several gem
tlemen who noticed her queer oehaVlor ana
took hr in charge.
When the officers and father met the car
on which she was being brought to the
city they boarded it and accompanied her
home.
The girl was apparently demented and
smoke wildly and disconnected. She said
she had left home and had met the boys in
West End Park. and that on returning
home she found her folks searching for her
and decided not to go in. She then wan
dered about and finally made her way to-
wards East Lake, where she was found.
She said that She had an engagement with
one of the boys to meet him in Oak Hill
cemetery at IL o'clock last night, when he
promised to give him pass to New York
where she intended going.
When the child was taken home the
mother had retired, but soon was aroused
and an affecting scene followed. The girl
was much fatgued and worn from her
sensational experience and is apparently
deranged.
The cases against the two young men
will probably be called in police court this
mrning.
CIisby's Side of the Affair
When seen by a reporter, young Clisby
said in regard to the case:
"PhelpS saw the girl in Capitol park
Sunday afternoon and made an engagement
to meet her in Sixteen street park the
same night at Ii o'clock. Phelps asked me
to accompany him and did so. We entered
the park and after walking around for |
some time Phelps whfstled and Alice Wag- |
ner emerged from the bushes clad fin a
loose wrapper, which was badly torn. She |
wore no stockings and held her shoes in her |
hand. L, only remained a few moments. |
I left Phelys and the girl together. and |
went to the far side of the park, where I |
waited for Phelps He Joined me about |
12:15 and we Immediately went home"
An effort was made to obtain an inter- |
view with young Phelps, but his father re-
fused to allow him to have any conversa- |
ton with the reporter.
Cisby and Phelps are young men of |
about IS or 10 years of age and have ex- |
cellent regulations. The former Is the son |
of DIR. A. A. Clisby and the latter of J. |
s. Phelps a salesman of the Jesse French |