The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-10
MILDRED runs AWAY AGAIN
BUT MAKES 4 MISTAKE AND
~ QUICKLY CAUGHT.

DsteetlVeg seaFchsa Ter Eier Ter =
Week-Thh. Fims ahe LEFT = Convent
-she llas . Very Vlvid lmaginntloR.
A little girl Of IS years. veil dressed and
very pretty. was aauntoriBg along West
Forty -aecond street Ia front Of Turkish
bath yesterday when . tall person coming
toward her caught her eye. She sided
up 10 the man and spoke 20 him. He told
her TO run away e. be was busy.
The man happened 10 BE- Detective
Wilber Of Poles Headquarters. He
walked on toward Broadway and had for
gottsn the incident when again the young
giri came up 70 him.
Take me somsWhere. mister. che said
With a smlrk. And then abe went on 70
tell The detective that she had run away
from a convent and had done g before.
I'm Emily Rndd.' ahs aid. Maybe
you read about me. ran away early IN
April and ell the papers printed things
about me-
Detective WILDER theroupon suggested
10 the girl that ahs come 10 bic 'GaFaGe In
Centre gtrsst and that be would got cut
bic car and tAks her for q drive. The gh
readily accompanied tho detective down
town In the subway.
Detective WILDER suggested 20 the girl
When they got In front Of Headquarters
that they 90 into the building a. be wanted
10 send q telegram Once inside The
building WILDER led her to the dStsCtvs
bureau.
why. look at all the policeman said
the RiFl a. she looked over tie array Of
uniformed COPS. Then In answer 10
questions ahs began 70 tell stories about
horsslf. each story contradicting the ono
that bad lust pFeceded IT,
| 6hs finally admitted after giving various
namaa and addresses IN Tho Bronx that
her name WAa Mildred Rndd. Earlier she
! had Rivan the name Agnes Miller and had
said hat her father lived at 2io East iiOth
street.
That's where he lives When he's at
home, anyway, ahs said between giGgles.
just now he aud mother are down az
about this time noticed on the handle Of
the umbrella the girl carried the initials
N. r. and they asked her about T.
Then she admitted that her name u Mildred
Rndd and that her father 10 George Rudd,
retired merchant. living at lD5o Morris
avenue. The Bronx. The dstsotive took
her 70 the Gerry society and her parents
were notified.
Early In April the papers told Of the
diaappsaEance Of Mildred Rudd. She
told the detectives yesterday that ON
March n last she had q difference Of
opinion with her public school teacher
and that the teacher had 'emptied a
bthcket Of wafer on her before the arRu-
ment Was concluded. Whereupon Mil
dred aayB she lett the school. and having
IS Of her own alls bought ticket % Cairo,
n. Y. and stayed there for eight days
Whila the police and PlnkeFtOn detectives
were searching for her.
| Whsn ahe cane back. ahe says, her
parents plnced her In . oonvu1t IN West
| forty-seoond street. She ran away, 40
cordlnR % her story. from the convent
Agt saturday morning and since then has
ben living IN q furnished room and
spending her afternoons and evenings In
/ cheap theatres.
They woke mo up az 3 O'Clock aatur-
day morning. aid Mildred yesterday TO
the police. 20 make M 60 % mass.
/ slipped out the back door and have been
having q Nosd time. And I had Il an
| framed up 10 have a better time, she
complainSd a. she looked resentfully
| toward WILDER. IL that old COW ever
| there hadn Z locked me- M