Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-30
MOTHER TALKS
OF LOST CHILD
BELIEVES DAWN HAS GONE ON
THE STAGE
Mrs. Fisher Says Her Daughter Read
Cheap Fiction storIes-Knew
Nothing Of the Ways
Of the World

Has little Dawn Fisher, who left her
home May 23, been lured away by prom
Use of n position as an actress, or has
she been abducted by some criminal for
immoral purposes is the question that
the detectives Of the city of Los An
geles are trying to solve.
According to the statement of Mrs.
A. p. Fisher, the girls mother the
child was very ambitious to become an
actress, and the mother said she
thought that possibly the girl had been
induced to leave her home to go on the
stage.
Mrs. Fisher said yesterday in regard
to her daughter: Dawn was very
studious child and was fond of the the
ater. l was sending her to the Browns
berger school to learn to be book
keeper. She did not like to go, and ever
since she was little child she has
always told me that as soon as she was
old enough she Intended to go upon the
stage. When the Lilliputian opera
company came to Los Angeles she was
fascinated by the work of the children
and she went four times to see them.
She often said she would love to go
around tine world with them.
Father Goes to Seattle
"When we first learned that she was
gone my husband went TO Seattle,
where the Lilliputians were playing.
and saw the manager. The head of the
show told my husband that they only
took Australian children and they
would under no circumstances take
American children. But you know how
such people are. 1 wouldn't believe a
thing he said. Mr.. Fisher followed the
LilIiputians to Portland and to Sacra-
mento, but he found no trace Of our
daughter.
'I have thought since she went away
that we should have been more careful
and told her about the work and disci-
pline that one has to go through to gain
any sort of a position on the stage but
she was so young that we did not think
it necessary. Dawn was a good dancer
and singer, and if any one approached
her with an offer of work on the stage
with good pay L am inclined to think
she would accept it. She would not tell
us. as she knew how much we were
opposed to having her go on the stage.
Child Reads Cheap Fiction
''I am sure she will not come home
until she is brought by the police, for
she has a very proud disposition and
would not come back if she went away
to go on the stage. She knows nothing
whatever Of the world and all of her
ideas have been gained from reading
cheap works Of fiction.
she rGaQ OCner DOCKS from I0e
library, too, but she had no ideas in
regard to the ways of this world. She
has often said that she would not marry
q common man, and that if she mar
ried at all it would be duke or an
earl. Dawn was retiring child and 1
have never seen her with a boy on the
street in my life. She hated boys and
would have nothing to dc with them.
In fact, sne wtls just little 15-year-old
~ ri with x,icioT1aT-xy idpoc q
verted view of the world. When we
used to discourage her from being an
actress she would say that if she could
not go on the stage she would become n
dramatic critic or a newspaper reporter,
but she would not write up murders or
anything like that; just nice, respect
able things.
Wanted to Go to New York
Another thing that leads me to be-
lieve she has gone away with some
troupe Is that she was so fond of travel.
She often said that she was going to
New York to become an actress or a
that when she got to New York she
would go to the w. c. T. U. headquar-
ters and stay there.
''Mr. Fisher and told her that if
she would stay in school for two years
and work for one year she might go to
New York, although whatever she
would do when she got there 1 can't
imagine"
The police say the career of girl
striking out for herself, whose ideas
of life are gained from the perusal of
the life of "Young Kid Brady" as ex-
emplified in the scent weeklies would
not be difficult to forecast 1t is be-
lieved by the detectives that the girl
will be picked up in some resort whittier
she has been led by some unscrupulous
man or woman.
Dawn Fisher was dressed as follows
when she went away, but her mother
stated that she believes the girl will
disguise herself: Patent leather auto
cap, long cravenette coat and blue silk
dress. She had with her a small black
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