The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-31
RUNAWAY Girl.
IS FOUND HERE:
HAZEL SCOTT AWAITING in.
sfRycTIoNs FROM STATE.
DOES NOT WANT TO RETURN
Escaped From the Girls School at Nit
cheIIviIIe and Made Her Way to
oes Moines and Then ~.
To oskaIoosa. "..n

Hazel Scott, the fourteen year old
girl who made successful escape
from the girls school at Mitchellville
last Thursday was arrested in Oska-
loosa Sunday evening at the Orpheum
Theatre, by deputy sheriff Eph Allen.
der. She is held in Jail here pending
the arrival of officers from the school
and from Des Moines.
When arrested the girl stated her
name was Marie Jones, but to Mrs.
Henley, wife of the sheriff she con.
fessed that she was Hazel Scott who
escaped from the Mitchellyille school
last Thursday night.
Mr. Allender had the description of
the runaway girl in mind and when he
saw an unattended girl at the theatre,
the picture of the Scott, girl immediate.
ly REQUIRED to him. He watched the
girl and became convinced that she
must be the party wanted. She went
far down toward the front of the the
atre somewhat removed from those in
the nearest seats and, she appeared
nervous, suspicious and watchful. The
officer decided to talk to the 4 girl.
When, asked If she lived here. she, re-
piled tin the negative, said she, lived
in Des Moines. She said her name.
was Marie Jones and as further Dues.
lions were pressed she became resent
full and impertinent, refusing any fur
ther information as to where she was
staying or what she was doing. Mr..
Allender concluded he was justified in
taking charge of the girl upon suspic-
ion and took her to the Jail and turn
ed her over.to Mrs. Henley. s,.5
Hazel Scott was confined at the
Mitchellyille school upon commitment
of the juvenil for an assault upon
girl at Des Moines. She severely in
jured the girl to the extent that the
victim had to beltaken't6 the hospital
in an ambulance. ~" BIGiuGL fuOIt z
Escape from Mitchellviiief vas &C
complished by Working the bars or the
window grating loose. She pfied The
bars apart and clad only in her night
gown, covered over with a kimona She
slipped through the opening, dropped
to the roof and made her way to the
ground and through the corn fields to
the "internrban tracks" near by and
-1S-s1Allsed the, seventeen miles to Des
Moines and her home. Next day she
left sDes Moires and went to Bussey,o
from which point she made her way
to Cricket. where the family formerly
resided and where she had friends and
acqnaititances. She came to 0skaloosa
Sunday but here was without sufficient
funds to take her farther J7.6-@tt 4
When placed in her cell last eveit-
ing she made the remark to the effect
that, ,"Well.-this is the first time in
my life that have ever been in jail"
She threatens to take her own life if
she is taken back to the reform school,
and says that if she doesn't succeed
now; that she will later, if she is
compelled to remain there Just what
her aversion to the school is, was not
learned, but she has fully decided she
will never remain, and if possible
would never go back. Everything with
which she might possibly do herself
bodily injury was removed from her
cell last evening, and she has been
carefully watched by Mrs Henley, so
far as possible. She seems to be!
brooding over something, and studies
and thinks a. lot. -rtnr ~