New-York tribune., 1910-02-07
MISS DAY TURNS UP
VAS IN STATION
HERE, SHE SAYS.
NeC Houen Girl Sought Work
as Waitress Before Coming
Here. Says Father.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune. J

New Haven, Feb 6.-CatheF1ne Day
the fifteen-year-old daughter of Arthur
H. Day. who ran away from home last
week, returned to-day in as remarkable
a manner as she left home.
While several relatives and members
Of the New York Detective Bureau were
searching that city for her she quietly
made her way from New York to New
Haven and surprised her relatives by
walking into the house, little the worse
Tor her adventure.
She said she had been in the Grand
Central Station from the time she ar
rived in New York City on Friday even
ing. about 8 o'clock, until this morning,
when she took the 10 O'Clock express for
home. She remembers little about her
escapade and the family physician, in
whose hands she was placed on her ar
rival here, says that 1t is clearly case
of aphasis
She said that when she left home on
Friday morning she intended to. run
away. She took trolley to Derby about
o'clock, but has forgotten the details
Ct her stay there. Her father has proof,
he says. that she visited several board
ing houses and asked for work as
waitress
The Derby station master said that at
4 O'clock on Friday afternoon she asked
linn what the fare was to Boston. He
told her that to get to Boston she must
go to New Haven. She took his advice
and came back to New Haven by steam
cars, waiting here for the next train TO
New York
She left here on the $40 O'Clock TRAIN
Friday afternoon and asked the conduc-
tor so many questions that he thought
her suspicious character and reported
to her family yesterday morning that she
had been on his train.
The girl insisted that she had not left
the Grand Central Station till this morn
ing. She said she slept both nights on
the seats for passengers and that she got
her food from the station restaurant
+ This morning she said, she picked up
a New York newspaper which contained
her picture and read how much trouble
her runaway adventure was making to
her relatives. Then she bought a ticket.
walked aboard the train and came here
without being accosted by any. one till
she alighted, from the trolley car, less
thana block from her own homo
The girl cried bitterly and was freely
forgiven by her father. Her mother is
in a serious condition Tn a sanatoriunl
here
She said that on arriving in New YORK
on Friday night she sat in the women's
waiting room till after midnight and
then asked the matron what time the
next train went to New Haven. The
n1atron said that there would be no
more trains till morning. The matron
to-day corroborated the girls statement
in a talk with Osborn Day, her uncle
The matron. however, insisted that she
did not see the girl after that time on
Friday night. The station master in New
York told Mr.. Day that he saw the girl
buy a magazine in the Grand Central
Station yesterday morning.
The girl returned safe and sound, with
no indications of having had a hard
time. She says that she ran away be
cause she was tired of going to school
She had refused TO go to school for more
than a week it has been learned and
instead of doing SO, went downtown.
The girls relatives say they believe that
her story is true
Some doubt about the truth of the
girls story was expressed last night by
officials at the Grand Central Station.
They said that no one was allowed to
stay in the station after 1;S0 a, M with
out good reason, and that the presence
OF a young girl in any part OF the build
ing late at night would have attracted
the attention of the special officers on
duty. None of those = duty last night
recalled seeing a girl answering Miss
Days description, and all were positive
that she had not spent her nights there.