The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-09-16
Former Kemper Hall Girl
Who Disappeared in Over
aIls Found on a Farm.
KICKED ON DISCIPLINE
Just Naturally Ran Away from
Governess She Didn't Like and
Went to Work in Hay Field.

Sarah Louisa Fletcher, former Kemp
er Hall girl, missing heiress of Slough
ton A. Fletcher, an Indianapolis bank
er, was found on Saturday raking' hay
on farm in Ipswich, Mass, where
she hired out early. this morning as
farmland.
She was happy as lark in her
work but made no complaint when
found by Gloucester police and her
distracted governess, Mrs. Fitch.
At Gloucester police station she
described her escapade and said with
laugh:
"It was great to lead free l.fe for
once"
The seventeen year old girl, who had
clipped her hair, donned overalls and
boys cap and rowed away from Rocky
Neck short, East Gloucester, Thursday
afternoon, in borrowed swampscott
dory, had enjoyed regular feminine
Huckleberry Finn time, just like she
used to stage when she was a student
at the Kenosha school.
Among the things she did were;
Rowed an eighteen foot dory twelve
miles up Annisquam and Essex rivers
to Rowley.
Sleeps in Vacant Barn.
Slept in a vacant barn two nights.
Lived on apples.
Was rejected for a fishing job in
Ipswich as too young.
Hired at the Upland farm half way
between Ipswich and Essex Center,
giving her name as Willie Sullivan.
She began work in great glee, think
ing she had fooled the farmer as to her
sex, but a friend of the farmer who
saw the new farmland suspected her
and telephoned to the Gloucester po-
| lice, which was the beginning of the
end Of Miss Louisa's prank; which had
kept the Massachusetts, north shore
stirred for two days and nights.
Mrs. Fitch, the girls governess, ac-
companied by Gloucester police, hur-
ried to the Upland farm and took
Louisa back to Gloucester and 30 the
police station.
She Had Apples for Food.
Louisa told her story freely. Re-
Ilating her itinerary and experience,
she said:
~ rowed from Rocky Neck shore
in the eighteen foot swampscott dory
up Essex river to Rowley, where |
went ashore. I landed late Thurs
ldav night, and slept in a vacant
barn. l slept there and the next night
/ too.
FOR food l ate apples. Yesterday
[ went to Ipswich and tried to get
Ia lob as helper on fishing boat, but
they said I was too young.
The adventures heiress added:
az told Mr. Hepburn, the farmer,
that my name was Willie Sullivan.
He never suspected that l was q
,girl He hired me as general hand"
When the marshal and Mrs. Fitch
arrived at the farm, the marshal
found the girl first. She tried for a
moment to keep up her pretense. She
insisted that she was Willie Sullivan,
who had just arrived by boat from
Boston, but her deception failed, Of
course.
'sPoor Little Rich Girl
I AS TO HeE UIOGlNS 4OI EuiltiAS away
Miss Fletcher said: Il was tired of
being a poor little rich girl l have
had too much discipline. l started out
to seek job and make my own way
in the world. There is nobody else
! in my runaway plan. They kept strict
watch over me, and never let me do
as other girls Of my age do"
4 The girl is under detention. City
Marshal Casey said that she would be
held at Gloucester police headquar-
i ters until her father arrived. The gov
rness returned to the Langdon Gil
lette cottage at Rock Neck, East
Gloucester. occupied by the Fletchers.
The city marshal said when he
reached the farm he found the girl
making driveway. She attempted
flight when the officer seized her
tried to break away Eventually she
Gained down, the marshal said, and
kremarking that she guessed her little
party was spoiled for a while, took a
packet of cigarettes from her overalls'
pocket and asked for ~ match.