Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-08
a RUNAWAY DAUGHTER
located by Her Mother in NIaterviiie
and Is Taken Home.

| The Bangor News WaterVille CORE
spondent, under date of Aug. 8, said:
Last night at late hour two women
entered the dark end of Alden street
! following two young girls. Far down
the street at its junction with Ticonc
an electric light brought out shadoWy
forms of the pedestrians on. Alden
street Suddenly one Of the women cX-
| claimed:
THAT'S her. Let go my arm. I am
going to catch her.
This was followed by a swift patter
Of feet and a rush of skirts and the
woman was dashing down Alden street.
! The other woman remained where she
had stopped and INDUCED the bystand-
! ers with a story of how the flying wo-
man had followed her runaway daugh-
| ter.
Her daughter has run away" the
woman said. This is the second time
in six weeks. The other time she and
another girl went to Bath. Her mother
came to my house, tonight, and made
me come down here with her and | am
| nearly dead with faint
Then the woman who had gone down
| tie street returned without her daugh-
| ter. The story brought out that, late
Monday night, young man had visit
| cd the home of Mrs. Cora Jackson of
Gardiner. and had enticed her 16year-
| old daughter Annie away. The young
people had boarded the early morning
| Pullman with tickets for Augusta, but
at the latter point had purchased other
| tickets for this city. When the mother
reached this city, yesterday afternoon,
| she reported to the police, but though
| the Young girl was seen several times
in company with three others of ques-
tionable character, the police and
mother failed to discover her. 1t was
nearly midnight when person who
had noticed the runaway told the
mother that her daughter had gone to
Fairfield on the last regular car. About
the same time special car came down
from Fairfield with people who had at
tended the theatre at that place, and
the mother and companion boarded it.
The next scene was laid in Fairfield
at . o'clock this morning, when little
woman about 40 years of age collared
a young man of good size and said a
| few things to him that appeared to dis
turb his mental equilibrium. This
scene was on the main street of the vii
laGe and in broad daylight. The run
| away daughter was in the little group
also. IT was difficult to determine
whether the girl was trying hard to
Keep from crying or trying hard to
cry
| Chief of Police Harrington had been
working on the case and at about the
moment the mother tackled the young
man the chief hove in sight across the
| street. Mrs. Jackson did not wait foi
the officer to cross the street she gave
the young man a push and followed
| him with her hand still clutching his
collar. The officer. mother, daughter
and young man went into a convenient
alleyway and settled the case out OF
court. the young man paying the car
fare Of the mother and daughter tc
| Gardiner.
| The young man in the case was wise
| enough TO keen his name to himself
| and the mother did not know him by
name. Several hundred people gath
cred in the street in front of Chief Far
rington's improvised court room and
watched proceedings with more or less
| interest. The young man had gone t
Fairfield to work in the pulp mill, but
the free advertising he had received
through the incident changed his MIND
and he is now hunting out vacancy
in other pulp mills.