The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-17
PRAYED TOO MUCH
Reason Three Pretty Girls Ran
Away From Convent.
Are Found in Topeka by the
Officers.
LIKE THE JAIL LIFE.
Prefer 1t to Staying in the
School.
IKE THE JAIL LIFE.
Borrowed SIS to Pay Fare From
Stranger on Street.

Because they thought they were COM
PEELED to do too much praying, Faune
Hayes, aged Is. of the Washington
hotel, Kansas City. Mo-; Grace McIn-
tyre, who claims Chicago is her home,
aged IL. and Matte Jordan. another
near" 17-year-old all pretty and at
school Sunday in Kansas City and
were arrested in Topeka last night by
Under Sheriff Bayless and Deputy
Sheriff Judkins. A night spent in a
shelter house at Budd's park. Kansas
City; an episode with couple of mar
ried men in Topeka, and touch for
IS with which they paid their expenses
are among their experiences.
WED a lot rather stay here in the
county Jail than go to school in Kan
sas City" said one of the girls today.
ct is just nothing but prav, pray, pray
all the time. And they don't treat US
right
The girls were kept IN the resi-
dence section of the county jail last
night because Of the kindness of heart
of Under Sheriff Bayless. One of the
girls slept with Mrs. Rayless and the
others occupied bed in another room.
This morning they had breakfast with
Mr. and Mrs. Bayless. Jail life, so far,
has been rather an enjoyable occasion
for them.
1--WE ran away from the school
while the others were at chapel. I
took a suit case which belongs to an
other one Of the girls and the other
two girls We're ready. On a pretext.
We got excused from ranks, seized our
suit cases. went out a side door. down
the front walk and boarded a Twelfth
street car. This we rode to Troost
avenue" said Faune Hayes whose ewes
are the kind men talk about
I'VE didn't know what to do then.
but we finally decided we must have
some money. We had $3.50 that we
had saved and we borrowed a quar-
ks.1N Soc, L ~ MI
we met an old. white headed man on
the street and asked him to help us
by giving us some money. We told
him we had just come to town and
that our money had been stolen and
we needed help to get to Omaha. He
gave us a SIS bill"
Yes" broke in Matte Jordan, that
is what they made me do" (this with
pretty pout) but I did 1t and got
the money"
Stay All Night in Park
"Then we went to the park and
stayed all night and the next morning
went down to the Union depot con-
tinued Miss Faune. There we hid in
the ladies' toilet most of the time and
finally we decided to come to Topeka.
We got here about noon and went to
one of the dry goods stores. There a
clerk told us we could get a room on
East Seventh street. We separated as
soon as we got on the street so the
v
down there
Then at night we went UP town
again. We met a couple of fellows
and they took us home. We were
there talking to them when the de-
tectives got us. We didn't cry, only
Matte did"
"Just little" broke in Matte, and
then she said. as if a new discovery
had just been made. ''Why does this
have to go into the paper?"
The girl said she lived in Paola
with her grandmother that her moth
er was dead and she did not know
where her father was.
But I've got to make my way some
way, so why not try it now she said,
bringing that pretty pout into use
again.
81 won't never beg pardon for run
ming away said Faune Hayes. "They
will try to make us do it, but we never
WILL
eve are going to write book about
our trip" confded Grace Mcintyre,
who has brother, Neal Mcintyre,
living in Topeka I'm going to love
'em all IL they come after u.s.
When found by the officers last
night one of the girls was seated on a
park scat with one man. while the
other two girls stood talking with an
other Both men are married and are
known to the police. They put up a
show of resistance at first, but when
| they found the officers were in earnest
they were only too glad to make their
exit
officers from Kansas City are ex-
pected to arrive today TO take the girls
| back to the school.