The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-12
CHILD BEGINS
TRIP ALONE
Nellie Walker Wanted TO Visit
Relatives.
RAN AWAY TO DO SO
Train Conductor Gave Her to
the Police.
RAN AWAY TO DO SO

Little Nellie Walters, the four-year-old
daughter Of Mrs Eta Walters. ran away
from the home Of her grandfather. ia
Minnesota avenue. yesterday afternoon.
and boarded a Missouri Pacific train. and
said she was going 10 see her brother
and uncle.
The little tot got on the train that
leaves here about 40 for Conway Springs
while her brother stays at the home Of
her uncle. near Benton. He went away
last Sunday. and she remembered the
depot and got on the first train that she
saw. The conductor found her in a seat
and took her to a policeman, who first
took her to the station and then 10
where her mother worked, over 22S North
Main street.
The grandfather lives on Minnesota
avenue. in the east part Of the city. He
started I'D town about I O'Clock, and the
little girl was playing in the yard. He
spoke 20 her and then supposed that she
would stay at home. but some time after
the man had left the child walked out
of the yard and tried to catch up with
him, but he had probably gone several
blocks before she started. and then being
such little person she could not go very
fast. She walked on up town and to the
Missouri Pacific depot. She had been TO
the depot several times before and knew
the place and stayed around it some
little time before the west bound train
backed onto the main track. The depot
men noticed her, but supposed she be-
longed to some Of the women IN the
depot, so thought nothing OF her walking
and playing about the depot platform.
No one saw her get on the train. She
slipped on past the porters and was sit
ting calmly in seat surveying the land
when the conductor came through after
the train had started from the depot. He
asked her where her mother was. and she
said she was working. and then he asked
where she was going. The child told
him she was going 10 her brother that
Y Orked on farm some place in the
country. The conductor then knew that
something was wrong. so he stopped the
train and began questioning her. and soon
found that she did not have a ticket and
did not know where she was going. He
took her in his arms and carried her back
to the depot, where he turned her over
to OFFICER Aspey. She was very talkative.
and chartered away TO the big policeman
for eli she was worth She said she
wanted TO see her brother pretty bad,
but she guessed she could wait a few
days.
In the meantime the child's grand
mother had discovered that the child was
missing. The police station was notified
and the grandparents started out TO look
for her None Of the neighbors had seen
the child go away. and no trace Of little
Nellie could be found. Finally about
o'clock, they went to the Bell hotel on
North Main street. where Mrs. Walters
works. and notified the mother and soon
after this the little one was found. She
had walked nearly two miles and was
pretty tired. but expressed no regret for
her big tramp. She did not realize what
worry she had caused her grandmother
and mother during the afternoon. but she
said she would be "dood now, and stay
home VIII grandma" She is only -four
years old. but rather large for her age.
and is a very pretty little child. with
big brown eyes. she makes friends with
everyone