Show DEMEnTED UIRl SAFE AT HOME Eva Jesperson Talks About Her Purposeless Wandering in Granite District RETURNED RETURN D A WEEK AGO POLICE NOTIFIED AND FAILED TO O INFORM SHERIFFS OFFICE The mystery of or the demented girl for whom there was as a search at Granite was as cleared yesterday when Mrs M lr Jesperson of 1175 1115 Roosevelt court in the block Mock between Ninth 1 nth and Tenth South and Third and Fourth East streets telephoned to the sheriffs of ot office flee fice that it was her daughter Eva Jes Jesperson Jesperson person persons 20 years old who had wandered out to Granite and that the girl was at home Mrs Jesperson stated that the girl disappeared on Friday Feb 28 8 and that she returned home on the next night When Miss lIss Jesperson wandered away Mrs Irs Jesperson said the police pollee were no notified notified tilled and when she got back from her strange ramble tho the police pollee were at once informed of ot the fact tact Had the police poUce given this information to tb the tho sheriffs office there would have havo been een no need of the long search at Granite which for five live days occupied the attention of several deputy sheriffs and scores of ot men and boys living In the vicinity of ot Granite It was hard work for tho the searchers to tramp through the snow especially at night in the rough I country in which the tho girl was supposed to have been lost and those who par participated participated participated in the hunt are disposed to look upon the affair as a sorry joke Inquiry at police headquarters yes yesterday yesterday yesterday brought out the fact that there Is no record of ot the disappearance of the KM girl If It Mrs Jesperson telephoned to the police pollee the person who received her message must have paid no atten attention attention attentIon tion to it It Is Js not believed that the police poUce withheld the Information from the sheriffs office so as a to enjoy the spectacle of or the wild goose chase of or the past jast week Former Inmate of Provo Miss Jesperson was at one time con confined confined confined fined in the state mental hospital at Provo She was released last August and went vent to live Uve with her mother in Roosevelt court The girl remembers her adventures at Granite She says that when she left home she walked southward At night nighton on cm the first day of ot he h disappearance she crept into a buggy bugg In a shed on the Boans fann farm There she covered her herself herselt herself I self with a lap robe bo and slept until morning When she crept from the shed she took with her the lap iap robe intend intending intendIng intending ing to use it as a covering the next night as she sho had made mn o up her mind to spend several nights in the wilds On the second day of ot her ramble she begged for tor food at the farm houses re receiving receiving some bread and from one place some apples and some quince jel jelly jelly jelly ly from another As she wandered through the country she nibbled the food given her That afternoon she became lonely and frightened and hastened ned home reaching her mothers home about 4 At Granite there was general relief when hen it became known that the girl was safe The members of the searching parties were the objects of many good natured jests although nobody lost sight of the fact that their exertions were inspired by a generous desire to help an unfortunate who was supposed to be In distress |