El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-17
CHILDREN
RAN AWAY
Four Innocents Escaped On
the Train From Deming.
CA Me TO THIS CITY
Left Home just To Have Good Tine
But the Police Were Notified By
Wire and the Little Ones We're
0verf1ken

Wire and the Little Ones We're
Overtaken.
Last night Chief of Police Lockhart
received from Constable Phillips of
Deming a message bearing the intelli-
gence that four small children had run
have come to Ell Paso on the east
bound S. p, train. and asking him to
stop them.
| The children alluded to arrive on the
train as expected and w. R. Brown, of
| the Santa Fe, who had taken charge of
them on the train turned them over to
Officer Rayner at the depot. Mr.. Ray
ner entertained them in the waiting
room until a man, a stranger to Mr..
Rayner, come and asked for them and
he let him have them, supposing that
ne was their father.
! Although the man who took them
was not their father. he was kind to
the children and placed them in the
St. George hotel for the night. This
morning Mr.. Rayner. having heard of
the telegram to hold them. started out
| in search of the children. He found
to the Orondorff. wher he left them in
charge of Mrs. DeGroff.
A Herald man interviewed the chill
dren while they were seated around a
table in the Orndorff dining room.
Mrs. DeGroff had taken them in to
breakfast. supposing that they were
hungry. but they said afterward that
they had eaten breakfast at the St
George.
When questioned by the reporter.
Laura Allison. the oldest of the little
quartet, said that she was II years old
and that the other members of the
party are her sister Ida, aged 8, her
brother, Andrew, aged 6, and her cous-
in, Rosa Allison, aged 9. The father
of the two sisters and brother is nam
ed John Allison. and though he lives in
Deming. he runs saloon in Pierce
Arizona The father of the cousin is
named Thomas Allison an works in the
mines at Pierce. His family lives
there but Rosa has been attending
school in Deming and staying with
the family of her Uncle John.
Laura. the oldest, said her mamma
town. and Ida. her sister. corrobera ted
| this statement. adding that their NAM
| ma often sent them out alone that way.
| they going to Albuquerque and other
places to see the sights. Rosa, the
cousin. who is a pretty little blue eyed
| blonde. said. They have not told the
truth. Their mamma did not send us
down here. We went to the depot, the
girls telling me that they were going
to see their papa, and Laura bought
| the tickets. l did not know which way
| TO start to Pierce and thought we were
going there until we got off the train.
Then told Laura this was not Pierce ~
When they found that they were in
for it. the sisters owned up. When
asked whre they got, the money they
said their mamma gave it to them
When urged to tell the truth Laura
said they saved up nickels and dimes
From across the table there came
4 w.
No they didn't They sold a lot of
watches and rings and got the money -
Having confessed to this the sisters
then claimed that the watches and
rings were their own. This statement
was verified by the truthful pair. the
little brother and cousin They all
said that Mrs. John Allison had given
her daughters each a watch and one
ring. and Laura slipped them out and
sold them to get money to run away
on.
She said her mamma was not good
to her
Yes she is. said Cousin Rosa. You
just ran away because your mamma
, said she was going to write to your
papa about you renting that buggy to
take ride The little brunettes find
ing themselves trapped threw their
heads down on the table and sulked
Chief i.ockhart came in and read
them ;he telegram. gave them a talk
and told them to stay at the Orndorff
until 2:30 this afternoon when Travel
ing Conductor Seamonds would take
them back home with him on a freight
train