Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-20
TWO YOUNG GIRLS REBEL AT THE HOUSEHOLD GRIND AND
 CAMP IN FOREST
HIDING IN DAYTIME, THEY LIVED BY STEALING AFTER
 NIGHTFAI.L
Captured by Detectives, They Admit Having Taken Milk, Bread and Meat from Doorsteps of Houses-Judge Turns Deaf Ear.

NEW YORK, October l9.-Today two detectives from the Austria precinct fol lowed small boot heel tracks in the dirt to thicket near the shore of Flushing Bay, in East Elmhurst, and when they broke through the bushes two youg girls who were squatting over gypsy fire, before rude tent, jumped to their feet and tried to get away. The de- tectives caught one of them, and while she bit and scratched, the other slipped through the woods out of sight. When the second girl was finally caught and both of them were taken before Police Magistrate Smith in Long Island City, they said that they had lived in the woods and fed themselves by their wits rather than bear longer the drudgery of life in a city.
 Stella Bonash, F years old, and Rose Miller, almost l9, who tried to get back to the simple life, have been living in their patchwork tent in the thicket on Farmer Bernhard s farm for almost two months. At nights they have gone out on foraging hunts through all the north shore country, from Astoria to Flushing, gathering in milk bottles, bread and meat from convenient doorsteps, clothes from back yard lines and pots and ket. ties that careless housewives have left on their back door stoops. During the day all these two rebellious girls had to do was to stay in the cover of their thicket and watch the boats go by on the sound
 Girls Improvise Tent
 When the detectives invaded their camp today they found gypsy outfit A tent the girls had made out of bits of carpet and bed blankets, bound to- gether with saeking twine, the whole stretched over a rude ridgepole that rested on two forked sticks. Blankets and discarded clothing that could be tucked around the edges at night to keep out the chill were piled up inside the tent. There were a coffee pot, a piece of broken gridiron, and two tin spoons in the soap box, which served as a cupboard. The pile of empty milk bottles strewn about answered the score of questions that housewives in the vicinity have been asking them selves mornings. A fat steak and some potatoes were ready for the evening meal.
 Nobody expected that the persons who were stealing their food and taking the blankets and clothing from their clothes lines for the last two months were just two city girls who were tired of the toll and grind of life. Some of the traces of housebraking and petty thievery that the police had been find ing allaround the vicinity of the north shore did not show the earmarks of the two girls work.
 Grew Weary of Kitchen
 Rose Miller, the eldest of the girls, stood up straight before Magistrate Smith, in the Long Island City Court this. afternoon and told why she and Stella had turned gypsies and had played the dangerous game of robbery Rose is a tall, 1.-the girl, with a face that is not all of the commonplace, and very black eyes, clear and unwinking.
 "You see, judge" said Rose, "Stel la and l were working girls. We worked in kitchens, and we had our hands in hot dishwater until they got raw about the fngernails, and we scrubbed floors until our backs felt like an old woman's.
 zone night Stella and left our working places, and we went out to North Beach. We stayed there until everybody had gone home, and somehow we just couldn't go back to that dish water and the work which did not pay enough to buy clothes.
 "We decided not to go home. First it was hard to steal and to sleep up in hay barns and on doorsteps in Flush ing. But later we got used to it. We got used to the stealing when we got hungry. Then we built our nice little bunk in the bushes near Flushing Bay, | and we rigged up our tent there. And it was the first time, judge, that Stella and I have been happy since we were born.
 Magistrate Smith, who has never had | his hands in hot dishwater, sentenced Rose and Stella to thirty days each in the Queens County jail.