Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-27
Ramona Borden, Found in
Boston, Leaves With Mil
Ii0naire Father.
HER FLIGHT Is REGARDED
SCHOOLGIRLS ESCAPADE
Will Be Protected Against Further
Notoriety-Legal Proceedings
Are Not Planned.


and so brought to an end what the
girls escapade.
Half an hour later father and daugh-
ter drove away in an automobile for a
destination not made public. Mr.. Borden
is hopeful that the affair will soon be
forgotten. and is determined TO protect
the girl from further notoriety.
Miss Borden will not return to New
York in the immediate future. Her
father plans to place her under medical
care in quiet retreat to recuperate from
the physical and nervous strain that at
tended her flight from the sanatorium at
Pompton. n. j., last Wednesday There
will be no legal proceedings against any
one.
Located With Friends.
Miss Borden was located at noon today
at hotel. where she was staying with
two girl friends and was asked to return
to her father. She promptly consented.
Mr.. Borden was waiting for the girl when
she arrived. Later. 1t was said that the
reconciliation was complete.
A person authorized to speak for Mr..
Borden said tonight:
Mr.. Borden's daughter has been re-
stored to him today by the ill-advised
and foolish persons who assisted her to
evade his authority. The case is simply
that of an undisciplined girl who found
the study and discipline her father had
laid out for her distasteful, and what has
been made SO notorious is actually moth
ing more than a reckless escapade Of
gome schoolgirls. Mr. BOrdens only
thought has been the good Of his daugh-
ter. at heart a good girl and a sweet
girl. who now full recognizes the deplor-
able consequences of her foolish conduct
and is happy to be back with her father.
Mr.. Borden hopes and believes that
the matter may now be treated as a
purely private affair, which ii is. SO that
he and his family may be relieved from
further notoriety."
Left Home Once Before.
Once before Miss Borden broke away
from the parental moerings. and for that
reason her father decided to place her in
the New Jersey rest cure when she was
located in Washington ten days ago.
At@tfat time she visited friends in the
south. being absent from home without
and. according to those in q position to
know. thought she should have more OPP
portunfties to meet her young friends.
among whom were Gladys and Violet
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New York.
When she was placed in the sanato-
rum she regarded it as a punishment, and
last Wednesday. while out walking with
a nurse. jumped into an automobile and
was whired away. The identify of her
companions in the car was not known.
The party went from Pompton to New
ark, Atlantic City. New York and New
Haven. Thursday afternoon they arrived
here. The following day one Of the party
Lac Ion, oiv1fn hot oil
with two girls.
Mr.. Borden Notified.
Yesterday one of the girls was recog-
nized by Boston acquaintance, who
communicated with Mr.. Borden. He ar
rived here early today and local de-
tectives who had been searching prom
ised to restore the girl to her father.
The subsequent proceedings were
scarcely less a mystery than the circum-
stances surrounding the girls disappear
ance. o. c. Kyle, who came with Mr..
Borden from New York and said he was
his representative, this afternoon notified
the newspapers that the girl had been
restored.
According to Kyle. Miss Borden had
been located at a private residence. The
detectives said that they had found her
at hotel. Mr.. Borden refused to discuss
the matter. He appeared to have suffer
the detectives. and according to Kyle he
was almost ready to collapse when he
met his daughter.
Mrs. Whites Interest.
NEW YORK. April o6-Through a
statement tonight by William b. Ellison.
former corporation counsel of New York
city. the interest OF Mrs. Helen Sheldon
White i'm the case of Miss Romona Bor-
den was set forth.
Il have known Mrs. White for many
years and l know her to be a most esti-
mable woman" said Mr. Ellison in his
statement. ''She has no children and has
grown very fond of Miss Borden. with
whom she has been intimately associated
The families had been close friends for
a long while.
from Boston and explained the disappear
ance of Miss Borden, denying she had
kidnapped the girl: that Miss Borden had
pleaded with her to take her from the
sanitarium. and that Mrs. White was un-
able to resist the girls appeals"
The statement described visit Ro-
mona paid Mrs. White in Savannah last
winter. joining her father later in F'lori-
da only to reappear in Savannah early in
April and tell Mrs. White she had run
away.
Mrs. White telephoned Mr. Borden and
Romona was delivered to a representative
Of the father in Washington about
April Is.
Begged Her Assistance.
1.-The next day Mrs. White came on to
Atlantic CITY, the statement continues.
land there received a letter from Miss
Borden, begging her to come to the
sanitarium at Pompton Lake, N j.,
where Miss Borden had been placed Mrs
White did So
Mrs. White says the girl begged and
pleaded to be allowed to go home with
her. and Mrs. White had not the heart to
refuse. Mrs. White then allowed the
girl to accompany her to Boston, immedi-
ately, however. telegraphing the mother
on the Pacific coast to. come at once.
believe the mother is expected here
Tuesday.
MRS. White further informs me that
while they were in Boston they read in
the newspapers OF Mr.. Borden's threat
to place his daughter in some convent
in Canada, and the girl became terrified
and shortly afterward disappeared
where Mrs White did not herself
know.
'All that Mrs. White has done has
been purely out of affection for Miss
Borden. She has acted purely out OF
sympathy for the child, and because Miss
Borden has begged and pleaded to be
permitted to remain with her." I