The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-28
Not to Prosecute Mrs. White
But Will Guard Ramona
Well in Future
TO ASSIST DAUGHTER
TO RECOVER HEALTH
His Task Also is to Dissuade
Her From all Friendships
That are Injurious
To Her

NEW YORK, April 27-Gail Bor-
den announced today that he does not
intend to prosecute Mrs. Helen Shell
don White for abducting his seven
teen-yearold daughter. Ramona,
whom he found in Boston on Satur-
day a few hours after Mrs White dis
appeared.
O. C. Kyle. Mr. Borden's friend
and counsellor in the four days search
for Miss Borden. which began last
Wednesday, when the girl fed from
Or, Adams sanitarium and Pompton
Lake, and ended when Ramona
Burns, of the Burns Detective Agency,
located her In the Eendone hotel in
Boston, arrived here tonight with Mr.
Burns. Mr.. Kyle was instructed by
Mr. Borden to make the following
statement.
Prefers to- Drop IT,
u shall not proceed against Mrs
White. or the other woman who aC-
com panied my daughter in her flight
prefer to drop the whole matter.
and | shall spend the next few months
in the country trying TO assist my
daughter to repair the wreck Of her
nervous system. and to dissuade her
from friendships that are injurious ="
AIR. Kyle made it perfectly plain.
however. that Mr.. Borden will take
plStaub4oIS ~ prevent MS daughter
from running away gain. MIR. Borden
knows where Mrs White il at pres
ent and intends 10 keep posted con-
corning her whereabouts
Mr.. Borden viii arrive here with his
daughter Tuesday evening from Bos-
ton. Today they were with friends in
a small town twenty miles from
Boston. Mr. Borden had several long
talks with the girl and endeavored to
re a Aft tf l.
truth about the circumstances Of her
disa ppearance.
The daughter refused To tell her
father the namc OF the woman who
was with her, and Mrs White. i'm the
Taft hotel in New Haven last Friday
mroning- She said that this woman
took her away from the Pompton
Lake sanitarium in an. automobile,
and delivered her to Mrs. Helen Shell
don White. the wife of the wealthy
chewing gum manufacturer. w. ].
White In Newark.
Except from concealing the name
Of this woman" said Mr.. Kyle. she
talked frankly enough. and gave her
father what seemed to he a truthful
account Of her flight She said that
she had been fond Of Mrs White for
several years. and that Mrs, White had
a curious influence over her, a kind Of
hyponotic control
Story of Her Flight.
She said that she didn't know that
she was doing wrong in leaving the
saniiarium In fact. she told her
father that she believed II was with
the knowledge OF her family. She
said she received a letter. which pur-
ported 10 come from her mother. that
told her Mrs White was coming TO
the sanltarium to get her. SO when
woman appeared and said that Mrs.
White had sent for her, Ramona left
the sanitarium unhesitatipgly.
Mrs. White, she said, was waiting
for her In the Navarro hotel in New
ark From Newark they went to At
lantic City. Ramona, Mrs. White and
the other woman. who is a close
friend of Mrs. White. They stopped
at the Marlborough leinheim for a
day. and then came 10 New York.
From New York they went to New
Haven. where they occupied a room
at the Hotel Taft.
"Qn Friday they reached Boston
and registered at the Nendome hotel.
The other woman returned to this
city. but Mrs. White and Ramona re-