The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-01-10
WHIPPING STARTED GIRL
 ON WILD CAREER, SHE STATES

Phoenix, Ariz.-Dating all her mis- fortunes from the time her father gave her a Ticking" that kept her in bed for three days, Laura Foreman, the girl who was kidnapped by state prison convicts, planes Foreman for her own court record.
 The girl, who is not yet IS, was l brought to Phoenix yesterday, and in the woman's cell of the county jail talked freely of her past. She de- scribed her latest adventure when she claims to have been kidnapped by Jack Wunder and Emmett McDaniel as they made their escape from Flor ence to the border, where they were captured because of the tip given the officers by their captive
 Tt was the licking that papa gave me that started everything," said the young woman. That's what made me ward of the court, for that whipping was responsible for my marriage.''
 | When she was 16, Laura says, she married William Higgins, and shortly afterward her husband charged her with too intimate relations with Geo. Mcdaniel, who is not relative of the convict McDaniel in the last episode.
 Owing to the girls age, the case was transferred to the juvenile court and the lack of evidence allowed her to remain at liberty. She was placed in the custody of her mother, and the fact that she was still a ward of the court accounts for her being returned to this county. However, neither she nor the officers know just why she is here. No charge has been placed against her, and her residence is out side the Jurisdiction of the county.
 q belong in Pinal county. I have lived there practically all of my life and shoud be at home now with my mamma, who is i'll. She is all I care about, and if it were not for her I would not care what they did to me. l suppose the ywill send to the reform school, but I don't know why they should, I haven't done anything. I was kidnapped, but that was no fault of mine, and I did everything I could to get back home. All I ask is to be with mamma"
 The girl prisoner said that she had stood up under everything" but this was almost too much.
 Tt won't do them any good if they do send me to the reform school she said, and a moment afterwards was promising to follow any order made by the court that would get her home the quickest. @
 T came to know Wunder and Me daniels by having the heels of my shoes fixed at the prison That is the only place we can get our shoes repaired. I was home when the conVlcts brought the shoes to the house; we were all there plavire cards with Grace Borns, a girl I met just the day before. When the men brought the shoes we invited them in and later they asked us girls if we wanted tc gc, for a ride. I thoueht 1t was just a little drive, and without even putting on my hat went with them.''
 She told of the well known escape and the capture of the convicts, their subsequent escape and re-arrest. She said while they held her and the Bc:ns girl prisoners she would ask when she could go home, and the re y was always the same, We will lot ycu go at ? o'clock next summer
 It was the note dropped by the girl that finally led to the capture She carries in her purse the little message which reached her mother It reads:
 My name is Laura Foreman. I am from Florence. I want you toh ave the police find me and take me home tc my mother. j am the girl who left Florence on the night of the twenty first. with two men from the states prison. We are going to Nogales, SC put cop on my trail and get me Please write or let my mother knew you have trace of me. My mothers name is Mrs. A. M. Foreman, Flor ence, Arizona.
 Tom Fitch, the silver-tongued ora tOr of tho COutbuoct bac ro+urnod tf