The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-28
ANNIE's ADVENTURES.
She Runs Away From Home to Find
 Her Aunt.

She Runs Away From Home to Find
 Her Aunt.
 Annie Nelligan, the young woman who was arrested on Tuesday at Cedar Hill station for trespass on railroad cars. was turned over to superintend- ent Preston of the Board of Organized Charities and she is now there waiting to hear from her relatives in Cam l bridgeport, Mass. who are expected to send money to pay her fare to her home in that place.
 She is a young woman about eighteen years of age and she tells quite an in- teFesting story of her wanderings Whether it be true or not remains to be seen. She came into the Board of Or ganized Charities on Monday and told a story of hard luck and wanted assist ance to get back to her home in Cam bridgeport. She said that a day or two before that she left her home in Cam bridgeport, Mass, to go to New York to visit an aunt who, she said, resided in that city. She went down there and found that her aunt had moved out of the city and as nearly as she could as- certain had gone to Philadelphia. The young woman had no money and was forced, as she says, to make the best of her way back to her parents home in Cambridgeport, Mass. So she was directed to the freight yard of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road company, where she boarded night freight train for Boston. She said that she was under the protection of the brakemen as far as this city and when she arrived here she was compelled to leave the train. When she got off the train she asked for assist ance and information and was sent to the Board of Organized Charities, where she told her story. They asked her If she had any money and she said that she had ninety cents. They gave her something to eat and allowed her to stay over night. The next morning she left for her home, as she said, and it was not long before the officials of the Organized Charities were informed that she had been arrested in a freight car at Cedar Hill, where she was ap parently under the protection of the train hands.
 She was told by the officers of the Organized Charities that she need not be in that position and that they would give her food and shelter until they could confer with her parents in Cam bridgeport, Mass, provided she was willing to do some work as compen sation for the protection. She agreed to this and said that she had done nothing wrong and was only trying to get home. They asked her If she had any friends that could send her fare to her and she said she did not know whether they would send the money or not. She was dusty and travel stained and they made her take a bath and fix herself up de- gently. She was set at work in the laundry, where she proved to be ca pable hand at the ironing table. She said that she had worked in laundry near her home ands she appeared to be quite a capable hand after she was cleaned up. She said that the brake men on the railroad were sory for her and had>made up purse for her.
 When she first came to the Organized Charities 1t was said that while she was in the building there was a young man that was walking up and down Or ange street in front of the Organized Charities building. It as supposed that he was in company with her and the officials were sorry that they did not see. him so that he might explain some thing about the young woman. It was hf Grct hnf n was suffering slightly from mental alteration, but last night she was ap- parently rational and well satisfied with the conditions with which she was sur rounded.