The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-11
GIRL FOUND m BOYS ATTIRE.
A BUMPED HEAD BRINGS ADVEN-
TURES TO KATE M'KINLEY.

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She wakes Up In . Houso In the Country
| where Motherly Woman Cuts on He
Hair and Makes Hor Put on TrOuser
| Runs Away and Gives Herself Up
Three weeks ago Mrs. Kate Mckinley
went to live as caretaker at 10 East Fifty
sixth street and sent her daughter Kat'
to board with the mothers sister, Mrs
Sarah. Leonard at $50 Myrtle avenue
Brooklyn. Kate worked in the book
bindery Of the Greenwich Press. ls4 West
Fourth street. On Saturday. when she
finished work, she went to See her mother
and remained with her until dark, when
she started for Brooklyn.
Kate Is II years old and, when she lef,
her mother, had long red hair and wore a
dark blue skirt, white waist, darkblue straw
hat with blue ribbon and Oxford ties. When
her mother next saw her the dainty and
rather frail figure was enveloped in gray
checked trousers, a coat OF the same ma
terial and jaunty cap. She still had the
auburn tresses, but they were in one Of he
trousers pockets. The police and the
children's society Of Brooklyn accordingly
have on their minds the mystery Of how
Kate changed her CLOTHES and got hair
cut.
Kate is In good shape physically, but in
strange mental condition. There is hia-
tus in her memory Of things that befell
her after leaving her mother, and some Of
the things she remembers are 50 extraor-
binary that both the police and the Officers
Of the children's society oonaidered them Ut
first az hallucinations or fabncatioes.
The beginning Of tho story was told at
Coney Island, where the girl in her hoy
denish attire was found wandering at
o'clock yesterday morning. She could
barely remember her name and could not
recall the address OF her mother or aunt.
At the headquarters OF the ohildren's society
she told story subet antially as follows:
After having her mother she took Madi-
son avenue car. She was tired and went to
sleep on tho car. Then the car rounded
a curve and her head came in contact with
one Of the posts. She remembers the pain
but was dased and on partly recovering
consciousness recalls that motherly woman
was leaning over her and assuring her that
she would care for her.
The dazed feeling came again. and whom
she rallied she was in big, white, wood
house out in the country. With ner was
the motherly looking woman, past middle
age. with silvery gray hair black skirt
and light waist The woman spoke to her
gently and put her to bed.
In the morning when the girl awoke her
hat and skirt had been taken away and her
hair had been cut. The motherly oman
in md hnr Of al nj
told her to dress herself in them and set
ready to take long journey. Kate did SO,
and ate breakfast and washed the dishes.
Then she decided to run away.
Stealing up to the room In which she had
slept she found her hair, hastily tucked 1t
in pocket and darted from the house.
All day long she walked and ran as fast as
she could. just where she went she does
not know. Only she recalls that when 1t
was night she came to park and Law down
in it under a tree. There she slept until
dawn, and walking forth saw police
man. He was the most welcome sight, she
says, she found in all her wanderings. She
knew that he would help her.
1nterspersed with this narrative were
statements that her mother lived In East
Fifty-sixth street, that she worked In book
hindery and that she had an aunt In Brook
lyn Since these statements have been
verified, some Of the authorities are inclined
to attach some credanoe to the rest Of the
story.
There was swelling on the side Of the
girls head, and she said that her head panied
her. Whenever suggestion was made that
she had run away or that some good looking
lad might have been in her company she
that 1t was a great effort for her to speak
and search her memory.
I viii! remember. it all If Won give me
time. My head pains me So she would
When the matron prepared her for bath
she found sewed inside the waist little
pocket containing $3.50. Kate was indig-
nant when it was intimated she might have
stolen the money. She saved It from her
earnings, she said. Mrs. Mckinley learned
Of her daughters disappearance on Sun
day mearnins her niece coming from ar p
in New York over night. Mrs. Mckinley
reported the case to the police Of Now York
and the police OF Brooklyn, and spent all
day looking for the missing girl herseh.
She continued the rich yesterday but 1t
WAS not until late in the afternoon that she
found the girl She went at once to see
her.
the superintendent, Mrs. Mckinley said
after the interview. Il can't comprehend
it, Of course. I fear the poor child has
lose her faculties. She certainly dos not
talk nationally. But this much do know:
She Is q modest girl, and am certain she
has been in no escapade. know, too, that
she is truthful regarding the money. She
pays my sister only IS week board, and is
able to save a bit every week fro m her
earnings"
Kate is still in the custodyof the children's
society. Disposition OF her case will de-
pend largely upon her mental condition
after she has had good rest. She said she
had had nothing to eat for twenty hours
prior to her arrest. Food and sleep may
do much for her.