The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-30
MINSTREL Girl
IS under. ARREST |. I
Ruth Mallory Caught After
Running Away With Denny
O'Neil's Song Birds.
FATHER GOES AFTER e: HER i
Police Get Word That Troupe
Is in Rocky Mount for
Engagement.
R GOES AFTER HER
Police Get Word That Troupe
Engagement.

Attracted by the glare of the foot
lights and the glamor of the stage.
Ruth Mallory. who mas not yet quite
reached the age OF poetry and song.
disappeared from her home at 500 East
Leigh Street last Sundaysto cast her lot
with the Peerless Minstrel Company.
the fortunes of which were headed by
Dennis Omen. whose songs In one OF
the Broad Street theatres were often
featured as headliners.
The company is comprised OF three
girls and three boys. two of the girls
being sisters, from Baltimore. They
took to the road last Sunday, and Miss
Mallory, who is a remarkably pretty
girl. went with them. She was arrested
In Rocky Mount. n. ca yesterday, and
at 12 O'Clock Captain McA1ahon received
the following telegram from the Rocky.
Mount authorities: III If
Have arrested Ruth Mallory. Send
promptly. Understand she will resist
return. (signed)i @
~. s. DAVIS.
u ia Chief OF Police.
Captain McAIahon Immediately re-
piled, asking Chief OF Police Davis TO
hold the stage-struck girl and advising
him that her father. w. O. Mallory.
would come for her Mr.. Mallory left
q - OlGlOSh SSoNSA01y sohNSA
Police Have. Warrant.
AS the girl is minor. fifteen years
of age, she can be claimed by her
father and be brought back home.
though ii an officer had been sent tor
her requisition papers would be neces-
sary. In Captain McAahon's ONCE re-
poses warrant for her arrest. the war
rant charging that she Is incorriE be-
and It Is understood that when she re-
turns she will be turned over to Rev.
James Buchanan, who will place her
In the Virginia Industrial Home and;
School for Girls. at Bon Air.
s Ruth Mallory has been stage-struck
for some time. and when she failed to
come home as usual last Sunday her!
father suspected that she had gone OF
with some company. He asked the
police to help find her. and Detective
Sergeant Wiley and Acting Detective
Duffy were detailed on the case. One
of the girls Intimate friends tried to
throw the officers Oft the track by telf-
ing them that Ruth had gone to Wash
ing ton. But they soon found that that
trail was colo, 4 and later they discov-3
cred that the famous Richmond troupe
had gone South. 1T was located at
Rocky Mount, where Dennis O'Neil had
billed his company for q weeks en-
igagement at the Ct iheatre. From
Rocky Mount he expected to go to Kin
.ston, N c., where anot Their weeks en-
gagenent had been billed But the
go without Miss Mallory,
Went Out for Glory. 5- III
Dennis's company does dancing and
singing turns, but exactly what Miss
AIallory's part Is is mot known here,
as she never appeared on the 9 tage in
Richmond. y. ,s3
Neither is 1t q known who compose
1.-THE other talent, though the Balti-
morean girls style themselves the
Upland Sisters" O'Neil Is we'll known
here His forte is singing songs,
which are illustra ted pathetic bal *
lads OF love and - romance. homes
desolated by red war and ruin, Of the
soldier boys return to find that his
sailor friend has married the girl
he left behind, Of love among the
roses, and all e. the other things and
scenes the hack song writer com
poses Just before his room rent Is
due, But Denny seems to have started
on the road to fame and fortune. for
The has several eng agements, and Az It
lis safe to say t hat. he will Ssee $to}it
that the financial returns are. In pro-
portion to the attractions he offers
Ito the moving picture theatre audi
ences He can get along without
Ruth, though she will be missed fwh en-
she comes home to go to school ,3ss She
I Is expected home to -day.