Show ESCAPADES OF A LITTLE GIRL Irene Craft Aged Thirteen Stays Away from Home for a Week and Tells a Story of Adventure I Is nothing unusual COla boy to emulate the example of the original prodigal son But for a girl and one of tender years to leave her home and spend a week foraging for her meals and sleeping In barns orchards orch-ards and haystacks is an experience undergone by few little ones Je1 the gentle sex Irene Craft a mis of 13 years who was taken in custOdy by the police lat night has gone through auch an ordeal during the past week I If the story she tells Is tluc1hc girl ran away from the home of her parents par-ents a week ago and all efforts to locate a unavailing Last night cato her were unavaing Lagt she incompany with two girls named Pearl Kesslcr and Clara Corney who became prominent through their examination ex-amination by he City Physician at the police station were located on Sixth South street wIth a couple of mcsrfeu gel boys Irene and the boys were taken to the station The girl telling of her whereabouts for tho past week said that she had spent one night in n haystaqk tw in the loft of a bar one under the trees of an orchard and the balance walking aimlessly about the suburbs She had run away from home because she was afraid to return after slaying out late at the Salt Palace Pal-ace Sunday night The child says that she would have gone home after the first day but she was ashamed to face her mothers Once she had started home but the Carney and Kcssler girls who weio with her most of the time had told her she wasnt game and then she remained with them Once when they wcro hungry and without money Irene says that tho Kftslcr girl found a purse containing 55 und all were enabled to feast The police believe that the girls have polce heJ been roughing it but they are of the opinion that messenger boys have been supplying them with cash and keeping I them In hiding W Donelson and Dick Clnj pool tho messengers found with the Craft girl last night were locked up in the hobo corridor at the city jail pending an Investigation |