The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-24
RUNAWAY GIRL
REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE OF
AN ABERDEEN SCHOOL
GIRL.

Aberdeen, Feb. 24.-Minnie Kind
schi, 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 thirty miles northeast of Aber-
deem. The marshal at Claremont OBJ
served her on the street. and as she
answered the description OF the Kind
schi girl, asked her where she lived.
She mentioned a place about six miles
from Claremont, but a telephone in
quiry brought the information hat
no such girl lived at that farmhouse.
Finally, the girl acknowledged hat
she was Minnie Kindschi, but re-
fused TO say where she had been.
The little girl was brought back to
Aberdeen Sunday morning and taken
to her parents home, where there
was a joyous reunion. and then the
reason for her escapade, and the ex-
periences she had been through were
revealed.
The girl had run away from school
several times and upon the last oc-
casion her mother scolded 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
afternoon. February Is, and hurried
to the Milwaukee station. where she
took the s~outhbound passenger, leav-
ing at 6 o'clock. She had no ticket
nor money, so the conductor took her
from the train at Redfield, and learn
ing her name, turned her over to a
policeman, who placed her on the
no%rthbound Northwestern train. in
charge of the conductor. The train
reached Aberdeen at midnight, and a
brakeman left the little 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 her father and others, after
searching for her, had given up the
search. Then she ran up the street
to the Great Northern station. a dis
lance of ten blocks, and hid in an
empty freight car. Soon afterward.
the car was attached to a freight
train, which pulled out for the north.
and she was left in the Claremont
yards on Wednesday morning, the
10th.
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 10 so de-
grees above zero. She did not ven
ture from the ear until Thursday.
when, driven by thirst, she called at
a house and asked for a drink, and a
woman gave her a drink and a piece
of candy.
Saturday her thirst had again
grown so great that she could not
wait until night. even with the ter
rors of a reform school sentence be-
fore her. so she ventured out for a
drink about 4 o'clock in the after
noon. The city marshal saw her, and
walking up to her Unexpectedly,
placed his hand upon her shoulder
and said: why, hello, Minnie!"
The child gasped and tried to deny
her identity. but later confessed.
She had had no food. except a piece
of candy, from the time she left Red
field. where she had been given a
meal Tuesday night. until after she
was taken in charge by the marshal
at Claremont on Saturday afternoon,
but declared she had not become
hungry, only very thirsty.