Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-06
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or EXPERIENCES.
TWO REACH COUNCIL BLUFFS
DEFoRE BEING REcAPTuREp
Farmers wife Who Turned esnsfae.
trsss 5urqed to Dsath-cirls Dennsd
d Msn's Attire and "6ummsd" Way
on Freight rain-complain Of Con-
ditions at Girls Industrial School.

on Freight Train complain Of Con-
ditions at Girls Industrial School.
Special to Times Republican.
Council Bluffs. Aug. 6.-Hilda Grove
and Olive Moore, each 1S years of age.
who were last night taken from the
police matron's care in Omaha back to
the Girls Industrial Home at Mitchell
Vile. Iowa, tell remarkable story Of
incidents at the home and Of things
that happened so fast and furious to
the two girls after their escape from
the home one week ago last Saturday
and their arrest here last Friday while
they were in mems garb. Mrs. Graves,
a teacher In the home at Mitchellville,
came after the girls. Olive Moore. a
pretty red-headed Irish girl. was the
more fluent talker of the two and the
| tale that she unfolded is as full Of
! thrills as an up-to-date novel. She
told Police Matron Mrs. Gibbons this
story:
oh. I am 80 afraid that the people
will blame us for the woman's death.
believe. tho, that we might as well tell
everything. for we can't feel any worse
over the affair than we do now
The trouble started Saturday morn
Ing when our superintendent told US
that some Of our patrons had COM
planned of the fancy hair ribbons we
\ wore that had been sent to us by our
parents. This was the last straw and
! q number of the older girls passed the
word around that every one was to
make break for liberty while we were
taking our daily exercise Of walking
thru the yard in the evening.
Eighteen Break for Liberty.
well, / think there were about
eighteen Of US that had enough cour-
age to run. Hilda and stayed to-
gether and 1t seems that we ran for
miles and miles. Finally I got dizzy
and fell. Hilda stopped also and we
staggered into a corn field. hoping the
teachers would pass US.
Soon one of the men teachers and a
| number Of farmer boys who had Joined
him came up and one of the boys spied
us He pointed in our direction and
shouted that he would watch US and
the others ran by. For time he kept
close guard but soon tired and finally
dozed. Quietly we slipped away, and
after we had sneaked from him we
1 broke and ran toward q railroad track.
"All that night we trudged along. not
daring to stop even for water. Early
in the morning we crossed the Des
Moines river and thought we would
soon reach Des Moines. However. we
! went too far south. I learned later.
! we kept walking until noon and
then Hilda became faint and said she
couldn't 90 step farther until she
had something to eat. I coaxed her to
walk half a mile farther where we
stopped at. a farm house. There was
no one but an old lady there and after
we had told her our trouble she asked
US to come in and we had big dinner.
She said her name was Mrs. Lester.
In the afternoon we took her scissors
| and cut each others hair off, Some
Of the hired men had left two pairs
Of overalls and we asked her II we
6ensfactress Dies From Burns.
"Then about o'clock we went to
| sleep. was awakened in the middle
screaming for help. Invoke up Hilda
down the stairs where Mrs Lester was
lying. her clothes in flames.
"Hilda Jerked a rug from the floor
and beat the flames out and then we
dragged the woman out Of the house
into the yard. We were too frightened
to think about the telephone and ran
down the road to the first house. An
old man came out and we told him
that Mrs. Lester was burned. He
couldn't leave the house, he said, be- \
cause his wife was. awful sick. He
would telephone for q doctor, he said,
and ran out to the barn, ssiddied
horse for me and told me to ride for
help to the nearest neighbor, who lived
mile down the road
II Jumped on the horse and soon
had awakened the next farmer, and
rode on to another house, where got
another countryman and almost half
g. dozen boys out Of bed. I waited for
them to hitch q team and we all rode
up the road towards Mrs. Testers
house az fast as we could.
1T was only short time after we
got there that the doctor arrived. He
told us that the old lady had inhaled
flames and could only live short
time. After everything had been done
for Mrs. Lester that could be done. the
farmers began to investigate to find
out how the accident had happened.
They found a comfort at the bottom OF
the stairs and thought that she had
become chilly during the night, had
Igone down stairs for the comfort and
stumbled with the lamp as she was go
ing up.
Worked II Harvest Fields.
1--WE couldn't leave as long as Mrs
Lester was alive and next day one OF
the countrymen gave us Job helping
in the harvest fields by carrying wtaer.
We also helped the women.
Rode Freight Train West
''Mrs Lester died on Wednesday ana
we left the next day. can't remem-
Der any towns that we passed thru exc
cepting Cambridge, wiiere We c:;:SS.:
q freight train and rode TO Council
BLUFFS. we wore overalls until we
reached there and then We bought some
cheap calico dresses. We wanted to !
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