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Show Missing Girl Tricked Out of Hiding Place Sight of Boy Friend's Scooter Lures Her Into Open. LANARK, ILL. A 14-year-old daughter of a minister, missing for several days, was tricked out of hiding by the sight of her boy friend's red motor scooter. Sheriff Henry Gruninger said the girl, Wilberta Paul, ran after the scooter as it was being driven through Lanark streets, caught up with it, then cried with dismay, "Where's Duane?" as she saw that the driver was her friend's father, John Kloepping. Duane Kloepping, 16, meanwhile, had been charged by Carroll county authorities with contributing to the delinquency of a minor after admitting, admit-ting, the sheriff said, that he helped Wilberta run away. The elder Kloepping agreed to take part in the ruse to bring the girl out of hiding, Gruninger said. "I just had the urge to run away," Gruninger quoted her as saying. Appearing somewhat weak, she hungrily went after some food in the. sheriff's office in nearby Mount Carroll, saying she hadn't eaten anything for two days. The girl told the sheriff she hid in farm fields near Lanark. She spent one night in a quarry and stayed for a while in a cemetery. Wilberta first was reported missing miss-ing by her father, the Rev. I. Clifford Clif-ford Paul, pastor of the Church of Brethren here. Young Kloepping was questioned after his leather jacket and the girl's coat were found in a haystack. The girl's parents told the sheriff they were not "angry" with the girl but glad to have her home with them again. |