The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-03
GIRL FOUND IN
CHARITABLE PLACE
Sensation Caused By Girls Leaving
Indiana Harbor Is Cleared Up
Through Efficient Work of Police
man Who Was Detailed on the
Case.
Especial to TIE TIMEs.l

Indiana Harbor, Ind, April 3.-Offic-
err William Hughes in following up
runaway girl, Maud Friend. to Chicago
where she was in hiding. and bringing
her back to her parents, has proved his
efficiency as a sleuth.
Maud, who is 16 years of age, is the
daughter of Marquis Friend Of Ivy
street, this city A week ago yester-
day she left home in company with
Mrs. Lilly Galloway, formerly Of Dan
VILE H., who is ony two years her
senior. No one knew whittier the
Dung women had gone, but on Tuesday
Mr.. Friend was given tip that a
young man named McComb who was
empoyed at the Inland mills, and an
other young fello wwere planning to
take the girls to Denver.
Detailed on Case.
officer Hughes was detailed on the
case and McComb was visited and asked
no wabout it. He denied knowing any
thing OF the whereabouts of the run
Always. but was warned that if he at
tempted to take them out of Chicago
where it was believed they were hid
| ing, he and the entire party would be
arrested, as the police of Chicago had
been furnished with a description of the
girls, and all the stations were being
watched.
The warning had the effect of fright
/ ening McComb. who on Wednesday
| quit his job at the mills and has not
been seen since. according to the po-
| lice Before he left, however, he sent
| the simple address, House of the Good
Shepherd" on a slip of paper to a
friend in the Harbor officer Hughes
got possession of the slip and decided
to use it is a clew in his search for the
missing ones. In the meantime anoth-
er clew developed in South Chicago and
it was decided to follow this UP first
Nothing developing, however, Officer
Hughes having a mental bunch tina
the House of the Good Shepherd NIGH
be harboring the girls, called UP thu
institution by phone. The mother su
perior informed him that there were
two girls who had recently come there
who answered the description OF tn
runaways, but they were sisters ant
orphans and could not be the one!
sought.
On Right Trail.
officer Hughes, however, was firm II
his conviction that he was on the RICH
trail. and determined to visit the In
stitution.
When he reached the House Of tn
Good Shepherd he was told that on
of the sisters" had left for some plac
in Indiana, but the Mother Superio
said she would be glad to let the office
have a look at the other. She wa
: ushered into the officers presence, an
: proved to be the missing Maud Friend
The girl had applied for refuge a
e the institution on Saturday, it appears
putting up a pitiful tale of bein
2 friendl ess and without money, and un
l able to secure employment. The Mothe
Superior believed their story, and the
were taken in under the names Of Rut
and Ethel Marshall. The Callowa
girl, it developed later, had gone t
Indiana Harbor to claim a letter con
tanning money from some man in Dan
VILE, not her husband, however TIL
letter had been received at the post
office, all right, but as it had a retur
card on the envelope, it had been ser
back after remaining at the Indian
Harbor office for the specified numbe
of days.
AS it was the Friend girl who We
being sought more particularly, the pc
: lice have now dropped the case.