Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-29
STERLING YOUNG WOMAN
 IS BACK AT HOME NOW

Miss Edith Hawes, Is, is back at the | home of her father, William Hawes of Sterling, after having been absent from | home since she attended the Moosup high | school graduation exercises last Thurs l day afternoon. She has been at the home of Oliver Creedon in the town of Brooklyn and now MT. HaWeS is threat |! ening to force Deputy Sheriff George R. Bliven of Central Village to retract or prove statements he has made in criti- cisn of the, girls treatment at her own home MT. Hawes is reported to have said that unless the deputy sheriff can
 prove that, the girl was nistreated be- fore she left home. the deputy sheriff will be called upon to face suit for
 libel
 The girl has been housekeeper for her
 father and two brothers and has always been treated kindly, her father main tains. .''
 Last Thursday afternoon the girl at tended graduation exercises at Moosup
 High school and did not return home. The next day she failed to return and the father, alarmed, commenced an in l vestigation. He learned from Lean Doyle of Wauregan driver of jitney 1 bus that he took the girl home late on
 Thursday night in his automobile, and i left her at her door. This statement alarmed her father. who could not under | stand where she might have disappeared l after her arrival in the automobile.
 | Nothing was heard Saturday, and that evening a brother, Harold Hawes, noti- 1 fled the Hartford police and asked that a search be instituted. He said she left the high school in Moosup in an automo- bile with some. boys but nothing further had been learned On Sunday Oliver
 Creedon of Brooklyn went to the Hawes
 home and told MT. Eawes that the girl
 had been at his home since Thursday
 and had begged that nothing be told her father.
 She said that after graduation. man
 named Mansfield. a native of Rhode F.
 land, but a resident of Sterling for sev- eral months, talked her into consenting . to leave the town with him, go to q city
 and be married. She was tired of tht
 ] town, and consented, so the two vent 1T , found one,. having arrived on the out skirts of the town in their search. Mans field lost his nerve and left the girl. She feared. that she was too far ava. to return home, and when Doyle happen ed along in his machine, she prtVaile, upon him to take her to B-ookyn, |, the Creedon home then begged him no l tc inform her father. Do3t>. fearing il had been seen with her, told Mir. Have
 that ne lelI nef dL ner nome e to shield himself Nothing the T was heard until Sunday when Mir. Cree 8 don arrived and told h'3 story.
 . In addition to this + is now declare d that Doyle told Deputy She-;ff Bl;ven ( n the girls whereabout Friiay nnorI.iH S and took him to Creedo ;. BlivcE !her T it: is declared said he lid not blame ii
 girl for leaving horns. and neglect d, i > inform her father. Mir. C-eelo1 sail Iii ri conscience bothered him., ard when lh e girl became homesicll sunday ar Y agreed to return hom4 h, :.'d N V Hawes and arranged a recenei iation. n Mansfield, the father also says, t!;,ir e. the. girl. and. no he; made the propos; n, of marriage. rSNle also explains h el part, stating. that the girl was So rrdc n afraid after. going with Mansfield tn; Id he told the story of leaving her at ht
 door to hide her real whereabouts ar , 1 then took the sllerin to see her to cles U: himself, and let the sheriff decide whetl 1,I CT or not the father should be notifie II IF She would not go home with Doyle, wht -L he first advised her to, but changed h. ls, mind after two days. absence.
 ., The girl says she does not want to S le Mansfield again.. and that she is sati III fled to stay at home i; Doyle, she say
 acted like perfect gentleman and h h. care at creedon's was good.