The Washington times., 1921-08-03
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Rid of Frenchman, New Castle,
Pa, Girl Seeks American
She Met on Boat.

LONDON, Aug. 3.-Miss Char
lotte Boyles, of New Castle, Pa, is
possessed in lavish measure of pep,
personality and pulchritude. When
she glances into the mirror pleas
ant view rewards her glances. When
ner lips undulate into a smile, two
| enamored SWANS will attest, ones
pulse races riotously and insomnia
ensues.
But tradesmen have impressed on
Miss Boyles that pep, personality and
pulchritude are non1negotiable quail
tiles unless fortified with cash.
Skipped to Europe.
And therein lies the discovery that
the impulsive leader of the younger
society set skipped off to Europe when
she disappeared on the morning of
July 5 last. and that she is not going
to exchange her inheritance for
title, but is hopeful Of a wedding with
an unnamed American.
Ever since she fled at 8 o'clock in
| the morning of July 5 private de-
! tectives have sought her. She man.
aged to keep her whereabouts secret
| until a few days ago when 1t dawned
| on her that II dad wasn't let in on
son why he should be kept in the
| dark as to her shortage of funds.
Cables Father.
She has cabled him for money and
| the father, David Boyles, retired
prised of her whereabouts has taken
steps to induce her to return from
London,
Miss Boyles is twenty-one. She
was graduated from the New Castle
| High School in 1918 and then at
| tended a finishing school In Wash
ington. On attaining her majority
| recently she inherited s250,000 <-om
a grandmother's estate. Boyles Manor.
her home. is one of the show places
Of New Castle.
Count Guy Trepinard, a Frenchman,
whose finances were swept into the
past tense by the war, but whose
courtship was very much in the pres
ent tense. when he was a guest at
4 the Boyles home recently. 1t was
rumored then that a title was to
come into the Boyles family.
The count returned to Paris and
from there wrote frequently to the
society girl.
Tired Of Routine.
Shortly after midnight of July 4,
Miss Boyles telephoned to James
Fowler, a taxi driver, asking that lie
call for her at specified spot near
the estate at o'clock in the morning.
Heavily yelled, she entered the ma
chine at that hour and was driven to
Pittsburgh. She said to the chauffeur:
I'm tired of the dull routine Of New
Castle. Same faces. same streets, same
everything. I'm not coming back"
She arrived in Pittsburgh at Sis
o'clock and ten minutes later was on
New York train. Her fathers in
vestigators learned that she obtained
a passport to visit France and Switzer.
land. 1t was believed she had deter
mined to elope with the count. The
police Of France, Switzerland and
England were asked to look for her,
but she was not found until she sent
a cable for money.
While cashing a travellers check
she informed an express company
agent that on the seven days voyage
from New York to France she. had
discovered that while the Frenchman
was "a dandy chap" her heart really
belonged to an American she met
aboard ship and whom she had decided
to marry.
She added: ....
THE Frenchman can stay where he
is. I'm going to London when l get
through shopping here in Paris and
I'm going to look up the man / met
on the boat. We ought to get better
acquainted. He's a real man. I'm
having the time Of my life and I'm
free from those who have tried to
make life unpleasant for me-"