Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13
DANCING GIRL IS
ARRESTED As
FORCER
Macon Runaway Caught Here,
Declares She Was Lured
by the Stage,

Rosa Lee Cherry, pretty but teary-
eyed spent Monday lamenting that
although it is springtime and the sun
Is bright, and the world is fresh, and
she IS but 16, this is a cold and color
less world. indeed and that there is
no more romance and adventure
Now, when this realization comes at
Is. something must be altogether
wrong. There is.
The adventure began Saturday
night when Rosa Lee, who has seen
something of life for all that she is
only 16, and whose profession is that
of dancer in a motion picture show
house, boarded in Macon a train for
Atlanta and a wider sphere. She had
partner in this deed Of adventurous
emprise who was Maggie Fleming
only 10 years old, and the daughter Of
a well-known Macon family They
both had dreams of a glorious sta6e
career
But the venture was Inflated from
the beginning. A private detective
learned Of the runaway, and Mrs. G..
Fleming, Maggle's mother hurried to
Atlanta from Macon, the arrest fol-
lowed, Rosa Lee being charged not
only with enticing her companion
away from home, but with forgery in
writing an order on the Fleming fam
lily grocery.
There was a dramatic scene as Mrs.
Fleming was reunited to her daugh-
ter at a local hotel where the two girls
were found. Mrs Fleming seemed
content to let the matter drop there
Her elder daughter, however, be-
lieved in more violent methods of re-
prisal than mere accusation. She
leaped at Rosa Lee, and slapped her
twice-quite unmaidenly slaps they
were, the police say. And then they
all went down TO the headquarters
together
There Mrs. Fleming's motherly
spirit overcame her once more. and
this time it was she who pounced on
poor Rosa Lee. Employing the ortno-
doX feminine system of warfare, she
tore off the girls waist and was
pressing her yengeful attack even
more fiercely when Mrs. Mary Bohne-
field, headquarters matron, stepped IN
to protect the girl,
Even at that, Mrs Flemings ven
geance was not satisfied. She with
drew. taking her daughter Maggie
with her and demanded that Rosa
Lee be held until a warrant could be
sworn charging her with forgery.
Mrs Fleming declared that the two
girls had written an order for 50 on
the Fleming family grocer in Macon
and signed her name to it, Thus the
money was obtained to leave the city.
1t was determined that Rosa Lee
wrote the order at Maggies dictation.
Dream of Fame Shattered.
Late Sunday j. l.. GhOlson, of Ma
| con. the Cherry girls brother in law,
| came to Atlanta to see her, but being
refused admittance, returned home.
Rosa Lee is the daughter of j. 5,
! Cherry, Of No. $50 Oak street Macon.
| She has been employed as a member
of the chorus of the McGeorg Musical
Comedy Company, which operates in
her home town.
Very little would Rosa Lee talk
about the adventure Monday. Only
this
Il didn't entice Maggie away from
her home. She came with me Of her
own accord because she was stage
struck. just as am
And now with Maggie back in Ma
con with her mother, Rosa Lee is left
alone i'm the matron's ward at head
quarters, to bemoan the utter amt
| hnauon of her dreams 70 mount the
pinnacle Of Gaby Deslys ct AL