New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-27
Happy Reunion Follows Finding
of HeireSS in Boston
Both with Nerves
UnStrung.
"SCHCOLGIRL'S ESCAPADE"
Millionaire Will Bring No Legal
Proceedings, and Daughter
Promises to Pay Closer
Attention to Studies
Go to Worcester.

Borden, the New York millionaire, was
restored to her father this afternoon.
After a chase that led through four
states, the young woman had been
found at the Hotel VendOme by pri-
vate detectives. At 800 o'clock this
afternoon. in a private reception room
on the second floor of the Hotel Tou-
raine, her father clasped her in his
arms.
At o'clock father and daughter
entered a touring car and left the hotel.
| ostensibly for the South Station, but
actually for Worcester, where they reg
istered under assumed names at the
Hotel Warren early in the evening.
Mrs. Helen Sheldon White with
whom Ramona Borden began her mys-
terious and sensational escape from a
sanatorium in Pompton Lake, n. j.,
slipped away from the Hotel Vendome
an hour after the girl had been taken
to her father. drove to the South Sta
ton in a taxicab and left Boston for
New York
Through a New York lawyer she
gave out a statement in which she
| declared that she had not kidnapped
Miss Borden, but had taken her at the
girls urgent insistence.
Reunion Scene Affecting.
The scene between Gail Borden and
his daughter was affecting in the ex-
| treme. With the tears cOursing down
his cheeks, his face drawn and haS-
gard from hours Of sleeplessness, he
fairly rushed across the little room and
EMBODIED his daughter in his arms.
Daughter, I'm glad to have you
back again." he cried. regardless OF
the presence of the two officials Of the
detective agency who had been re-
| sponsible for the reunion.
The girl had assumed an air not Of
! Indifference but Of reserve. 1t vanished
when her father spoke and she, too,
began to weep.
You've caused me terrible anxiety
the father went on. II hope you'll
want to stay with me this time. It's
all for your own good
The scene became so distressing for
| the detectives to witness that they
withdrew to the corridor. For an
hour the father and daughter com
muned together.
Just before o'clock they prepared
to leave the city. Mr.. Borden told
Raymond j. Burns, son of William j.
Burns and secretary-treasurer Of the
Burns Detective Agency, whose ef-
| forts he had enlisted in the search
for his daughter, that he was unde-
cided where to spend the night. He
had one or two Boston friends with
whom he might stop. or he might
stay at the Touraine. He said he
would telephone where he went.
| Mr. Borden and Ramona then
stepped into a touring car and drove
off toward the South Station. Just
after . o'clock tonight a big car drove
up to the Hotel Warren. in Front
street. Worcester. Room S had been
reserved previously over the long-dis-
tance telephone. From the car
stepped Mr.. Borden, his face still
showing the traces of the strain he
had been through. With him was
young woman, wrapped in fars and
overcoats till her features were hardly
distinguishable.
The two at once retired to the rooms
that had been ordered. had their meal
sent up to them, and were not seen
about the hotel any more during the
evening.
May Be Hero To-day.
Whether they intend to go on to
New York Sunday by automobile or
whether they will continue the jour
ney by train is not KNOWN Up to
late hour tonight Mr.. Burns had not
received his expected message, and
had consequently no line on the plans
Of the father and daughter.
The whereabouts Of Mrs. Theodore
A. Backe, Of Brooklyn, who is sup
posed to have accompanied Ramona
Borden and Mrs. White here. are not
known. o. c. Kyle. speaking as q
friend Of Mr.. Borden tonight. said
that the father was satisfied with the
recovery Of his daughter and that he
kyle had informed Raymond Burns
that there would be no further need
for his services.
Miss Borden was found by Burns
operatives last night (Friday), accord
ing to Mr.. Kyle. at the Hotel Vendome.
which is one block from the Public
Library. Mr.. Burns reported to him,
Mr.. Kyle said, that neither Mrs. White
nor her nieces were with the girl at
the time, but that there was another
woman with her, whose name is not
divulged. The girl was taken to the
house Of a friend to spend Friday
night.
1t is the plan of Mr. Borden to place
his daughter under medical care in a
quiet retreat where she can rscuperate
from the physical and nervous strain
that attended her flight from the sana-
torium at Pompton. N. j., last Wednes-
day. There will be no legal proceed
ings against any one. and Miss Borden