The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-02-24
GIRL RAN AWAY FROM
HOME when MENACED
WITH REFORM SCHOOL
Hidden In Freight Car, With
out Food, For Several Days
Threat Not Made Seriously.

Aberdeen, S. D., Feb. 23.-Minnie
Kindschi. the 13-year-old girl who mys-
teriously disappeared from her home
last Tuesday evening, was found late
saturday evening at Claremont, a town
on the Great Northern railway, about
80 miles northeast of Aberdeen. The
marshal at Claremont observed her on
the street and. as she answered the de-
s%cription of the Kindschi girl, asked her
where she lived. She mentioned q
place about six miles from Claremont,
but a telephone inquiry brought the in
lofmatlon that no such girl lived at
that farmhouse. Finally, the girl ac-
knoWledged that she was Minnie Kind
sem, but refused to say where she 3
been.
The little girl was brought back to
Aberdeen, Sunday morning, and taken
TO her parents home, where there was
q JOYOUS reunion. n hen the reason
Tor her escapade. and the experiences
she had been through, were revealed.
The girl had run away from school
several times and, upon the last oc-
casion. her mother scoided her some
what severely for playing truant, and
told her she was going to send her to
the reform school. Mother always
keeps her promises" the little girl said,
so. in fear Of the reform school, she
slipped from the house Tuesday after
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Milwaukee station. where she took the
southbound passenger, leaving at 6
O'Clock. She had no ticket nor money,
so the conductor took her from the
train at Redfield and. learning her
name, turned her over to a policeman,
Northwestern train, in charge of the
conductor The train reached Aberdeen
at midnight. and a brakeman left the
llttie girl in the waiting room at the
Northwestern station.
Just as her father appeared at the
south door Of the waiting room, the
child slipped out of the west door and
ran frantically for some distance, and
then hid behind a telephone pole until
ner father and others, after searching
for her, had given up the search. Then
she ran up the street to the Great
Northern station, a distance of about
10 blocks. and hid in an empty freight
car; Soon afterward. the. car vas at
tached to a freight train. which pulled
out for the north, and she was left in
the Claremont yards on Wednesday
morning. the 18th.
The child. small for her years, lay
hidden in the car from Wednesday
morning until Saturday afternoon, with
no covering at night, and with the
mercury ranging from 6 to SO degrees
above zero. She did not venture from
the car until Thursday. when, driven
by thirst, h called at a house and
asked for a drink. and a woman gave
her a drink n a piece of candy.
Saturday, her thirst had again grown
SO great that she could not wait until
night. even with the terrors of a reform
school sentence before her, so she ven
tured out for q drink about 4 o'clock
IN the afternoon. The city marshal saw
her and. walking UP to her u~nexpect-
eddy, placed his hand upon her shout
der and said: Why. hello. Minnie"
The child gasped and tried to deny her
identity. but later confessed. She had
had no food. EXCEPT d piece of candy.
from the time she left RedfieId, where
h had been given n rneal TUESDAY
night. until after she was taken in
charge by the marshal at Clareu1o-t
on Saturday afternoon. but declared
she had not become hungry. only very
thirsty.