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

Rosa Lee Cherry, pretty but teary-
eyed, spent Monday lamenting that
although 10 Is springtime and the sun
is bright, and the world Is fresh, and
she IS but l6, this IS a cold and color
less world, indeed and that there is
no more romance and adventure
Now. when this realization comes at
l6, 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 I'm motion picture show
house, boarded in Macon a train for
Atlanta and wider sphere. She had
a partner in this deed Of adventurous
emprise who was Maggie Fleming
only ] 3 years old, and the daughter OF
a we'll known Macon family They
both had dreams of a glorious STAGE
career
But the venture was H. fated from
the beginning A private detective
learned OF the runaway, and Mrs. g..
Fleming Maggie's mother, hurried TO
Atlanta from Macon. the arrest fol-
lowed Rosa Lee being charged not
only with entcing her companion
away from home, but with forgery in
writing an order on the Fleming fam
lily grocery.
There was dramatic scene as Mrs.
Fleming was reunited to her daugh-
ter at local hotel where the two girls
were found. Mrs Fleming seemed
content to let the matter drop there.
Her elder daughter, however be
lleVed i'm 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 ovcrcame her once more, and
this time it was she who bounced on
poor Rosa Lee Employing the ortho-
dox feminine system of warfare, she
tore off the girls waist and was
pressing her vengeful attack even
more fiercely when Mrs Mary Bohne-
field, headquarters matron, stepped In
to protect the girl
Even at that. Mrs. Jennings 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 So 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 a Maggie's 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 S53 Oak street Macon.
She has been employed rs 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.
Fl 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 let
alone i'm the matron's ward at head
quarters. to bemoan the utter ami
hilation Of her dreams to mount the
pinnacle of Gaby Deslys ct al