Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-30
BORDEN TELLS
WHY SHE RAN AWAY
Wanted a Home and Wished to
Be With Mother Instead OF
School or Sanat0rium.

NEW YORK. April 3O.-Ramona Bor-
den-a poor little rich girl in real life
sat. partially buried by the cushions OF a
big plush chair in her mothers apart
ments at the Belmont Hotel and gravely
discussed her hard lot as the only child of
millionaire and why she ran away from
the sanatorium at compton Lake, \. j.,
where her father had placed her.
Miss Borden who is seventeen years
old appeared i'm the best of health. Her
face had a touch of color under very
becoming coat of TAM and her chestnut
hair, so dark it is almost black, set off
face exceptionally attractive. She is
ABOUT FIVE feet two or three inches in
height and weighs little more than 100
pounds.
it was because she wanted home, she
says she left the Adams Sanatorium with
Mrs William j. White. wife of the chew
ing gum manufacturer. In all her story,
however, she warmly defended Mrs.
White and eXonerated her from all blame
for her running away. She denied that
Mrs. White accompanied her on her
travels. and declared that her father
bla med her unjustly.
Going to California With Mother.
In the first place. l will say l am go
ing back to California with my mother in
two or three days, as soon IS she Is rest
ed. It has been definitely decided that I
am TO be with her in the future. She and
my father have agreed on that point with
out seeing each other. l am very glad l
love both my father and my mother, put
but I have been very unhappy recently
and / believe l will be happiest with my
mother. A mother can understand her
daughter better than a father can.
Il ran away from the sanatorium said
Miss Borden, because I wanted to get
where my mother was and because !
wanted a home. l was tired OF being
tossed from hotel to hotel, from school
to school, with the sanatorium in be-
tween. l wanted a home: l still want a
home, and l am going to have home.
Il am going to live with my mother in
Los Angeles, and l am going to school
there, where | can lead an outdoor IRE
and have a home. ran away from the
sanatorium for two reasons. The first
one was that l wanted a home: also j
wanted to get away from where ! was.
Did Not Hear From Mother.
When / got to the sanatorum | wrote
and l telegraphed to my mother, and |
did not hear from her. Then | wrote TO
Mrs White and Mrs. Backe and asked
them TO come and see me.
They came out in an automobile. ana
when | ran to the side of the car to greet
them the nurse grabbed ME around the
waist. Neither Mrs. White nor Mrs.
Backe touched the nurse. | simply pulled
her into the automobile after me as she
held on to my waist. Then | told the
chauffeur to go ahead and We were soon
bowling along toward the Hotel Navarro
in Newark The nurse said she was go
ing to tell the sanatorium about my being
kidnapped.
Father and Mother Have Not Met
when We got to the hotel in Newark,
while she was making for a phone | was
making for a trolley car. Neither Mrs
White nor Mrs. Backe was with me then
1 had enough money to take me to New
Haven | stopped at the Hotel Taft
there, and when l saw in the papers the
next day the story of my alleged kidnap-
ing l was scared to death
Il determined to leave at once. anu l
concluded to go on TO Boston | went to
the Hotel Essex when | arrived in Bos-
ton and later to the Hotel Nendome,
where / registered as Barbara Reed.
Saturday a girl friend telephoned me
that my father was in Boston, and later
my father himself came to the MOTEL and
saw me- My father and mother have not
had any meeting. as one report had it.
They have not seen each other. | am
the means Of communication between
them and whatever they have TO say
they say through me.
Il waited for my mother to come east,
and then Joined her at the Belmont. That
is how l came to run away. ana no one
is to blame for taking me away