The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-09-26
l4-YEAR-OLO GIRL
IS BACK At HOME
MARY AYERS CHARGES NisTREAT-
NEWT ny TWO GREEKS an
SIXTH STREET. .
LOCKED IN A ROOM
TELLS PARENTS AND POLICE OF
HAVING BEEN CONFINED OVER
RESTAURANT ron TWO
NIGHTS.

Haggard and worn from weary
walks on the street since LAT Friday
morning and from spending interVen-
ing nights way from home, Mary
! Ayers. the fourteen-year-old step
daughter of II. i. Letehworth. IT'S
East Franklin street. returned TO her
home before noon yesterday ana
threw herself into her mothers arms
with d feeble uttered prayer for for
giveness.
TO her parents aud to Sergeant
sherry the girl told her story. she
mad wandered among devious ways
she confessed, and told them that she
had been locked up in a room over
a Greek restaurant at Az North SKIN
street for two nights. she SAID tnat
she was mistrGated by two GREEKS
one Of whom, Nick Ekonomayt she
charged with having enticed her into
a room and tnen locked the door.
According to the story, he admitted "a
friend. aud again LOCKED the door
Yesterday morning he read the ac-
| counts OF the girl : disappearance IN
the morning papers, and, accoroihk
to her, cam to her and said get out
+eer-t+-t s-sthe-t+e-annasr-ana- say
nothing about this. II might put us
in the electric chair.
The lock was opened, and she left
the DlhGt. IA HtttN ga
was received by her anxious mother
Her step-father was then still en-
gagged In the search for her.
Ekonomay Is Arrested.
Ekonomay was arrested a few hours
later nv {. A. Sherry, and
was lodged i'll the First police sta
ton. He admitted to reporters Iast
night tina the girl had oeen In ms
rests urant, but added that she came
" -. 4-T1l He Scanned
to he frank about the whole aHalr.
but added that he thought the girl
was her own free agent. and said no
Violence was forced upon her. me
other Greek who Is implicated mas
not vet been caught. though Sergeant
sherry and other policemen spent the
night in search for him.
CAPTAIN McMahon learned yester-
day afternoon Of the girl : movements
and they were detailed to the ponce
II has been learned that she spent
| Friday and Saturday nights at iaot
East Main street. after having tired
to secure rooms at ether places IL
the neighhorhood. Sunday night she is
alleged to have spent oYer q saloon
on Broad street until she was driven
out with a companion. Then, accord
ing to her story. she met q ma on
Broad street. who took her to a room
over a Greek restaurant. He gave her
money. she says, and paid. her room
rent, and left
Monday afternoon she spent on the
streets. She met q an. she says. on
Broad street, who took her to a NOV
ing picture show and then to a room
on North Sixth street. There, she
claims, she was locked up for two
nights. The man under arrest claims
that the girl asked to he allowed to
stay after being old to get out and
go home. It is said that she has made
other disclosures TO the police
According to information received
by Sergeant sherry. the girl was turn
ed out of several places. She was
twice met by Policeman Griffin. All
one time she old him she was from
Bluefeld. w. Va, and was looking for
work. h told him on the second
occasion that she was looking for
work, and he gave her an address at
which she might procure employment
Mr.. Letchworth. stepfather of the
girl, was seen last night, but~he had
little to say. He told of how the girl
had come hon and of how she had
aid that she was afraid to come home
after her first night away.