The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-10

they both cried. The mother said to re-
porter for the Eagle: Il want to take
my little girl home with me and we can
give the bond required. She is all the
girl we have left at home and we can
take better care of her than anybody
else. It is simply awful to think of her
being locked up in the tower of the
court house when we can take good care
of her"
County Attorney Comfy overheard this
last statement and he stepped up to Mrs.
Blanger and said. Yes, it is great care
you take of the little girl. You admitted
when you were on the witness stand
down at the probate court that at one
time she went from home and staid
three weeks and that you had made no
inquiry to find out where she was. That
is a great way to take care Of a little
girl"
"Oh, I don't know, but there seems
to be something wrong with the whole
affair and I think that man stratton is
a BRUTE was the answer of Mrs. Blan-
ger to the county attorney.
A reporter for the Eagle went into the
county attorneys room and found leila
Blanger there with Mrs. Stratton. He
said to her:
''Zella, what do you want to say about
this for the readers of the Eagle? Peo-
pie are getting interested in your case"
Il am tired of being arrested and
dragged into court and do not care what
becomes Of me just so that I am taken
away from this town. I would like to
be sent to the school for girls at Beloit.
I I I ~
things that would be of benefit to me
and help me to make woman of myself.
/ have a wonderful temper and if I stay
here I am going to kill somebody and get
into more trouble sure. I don't care
where they take me, just so I am taken
away from here"
Where are you stopping, now?"
q am stopping at the Piazza hotel with
Mrs Stratton. They gave me a room
there. They went to the theatre last
night and they took me along with them
and I thought the show was very nice.
I wanted to go again tonight, but Mr..
Stratton says it viii be the same play
we saw last night"
How old are you. Zella?''
Il was Is last July and next July I
viii be 16"
Mrs. Stratton here explained that they
had leila locked up in the court house
because she had rebeled and they could
not handle her. leila thrust one thumb
into her mouth to stiffie her laughter at
the explanation and she did not offer TO
correct il. She is small for a girl of
her age. She has small head but her
eyes are bright and her mind is active.
She is evidently one easily influenced
and she seems to have the utmost con-
fdence in Mrs. Stratton.
When a reporter for the Eagle called
at the county commissioners office he
found County Attorney Conley in consul
tation with Commissioners Wilson and
Redheld.
Mr.. Wilson. how is your tower of
London business coming on?" asked the
reporter.
That tower story was an outrage"
said the deacon. when 7 went home
last night, my wife had read the Eagle
and she roasted me to brown finish be
fore I could explain that business. She
said she never would have believed that
would be guilty of having a little girl
locked in the tower of the court house.
Now I viii tell YOU what we are going
TO do. We are going 10 have that room
fixed up for a prison. The law does not
permit us TO put those little girls ar
rested FOR running the streets in the
county Jail. and we have set apart this
room for that very purpose. If people !
neglect their little girls and allow them
TO run the streets and follSw the path to
ruin. We are going TO have every one of
them locked up