Show IV v vII I i 11 II Heiress Heiss Escapes Plane Crash Ie V. v S J a S t 5 J 5 I If 5 i I 4 2 1 e 4 4 h t y 6 i S 'S SS SC C S 'S 5 S 'S RUTH McCONNELL A. A Ruth M McConnell Returning Returning Returning Return Return- ing Almost Cracks V i-V j TT T Up at Re Reno o RENO Nev Ney Dec 22 22 United Press press A A narrow e escape ape from accident accident ac ac- ac and injury was was the thrill provided Ruth McConnell 26 who is is returning to li her r parents after a flight across the tho nation and Dr alan Olan Meeker who h has hs s t turned from pursuer to escort vi when erl their plane landed here this evenin evening The airship struck the top o of a wire fence at the thafield field and boun bounced eel along alon tho the ground unsteadily but butas was as still still upright wh when h i 1 it ca came le to toa toa toa a stop s l 1 Meeker ker declined to say anything other other- they were leaving hero lero for Indianapolis on ln train Noi No 28 which departs shortly after 9 0 I p. p m. m The pair pall chartered 4 4 taxIcab taxicab taxicab taxi- taxi cab to tour around the tho or of ortho tho the city until until train train time t Y l ollow ed Miss McConnell in her flight light across ss tho country and finally persuaded the girl t to return to to her parents for fort Christmas day dayal al after ra a con conference in San Francisco Dec 22 United Unit Unit- ed od res Press MIs 1 Ruth Buth McConnell runaway heiress and D. D Olan Meeker Meek Meek- er who pursued her across the across the continent continent continent con con- by airplane today today- started to return to Indianapolis to to sp spend nd Christmas with her T The Tio o understanding vba not arrIved ar- ar rIved at without difficulties es how- how over ever Meeker who land landed d her here 24 hours behind the the- girl spent another an an- other 12 hours In finding her Then It required an hours hour's conference and Jill n ll of Meekers Meeker's persuasion before Miss 1 McConnell agreed d that It would o ild be best for her to hi return home Defiant Delant at the start of ot the parley Miss Mis's US's l s McConnell accepted Meekers Meeker's explanation that explanation that he had hired an airplane l t to overtake o her train speedIng speeding speed- speed in Ing westward Rochester N N. Y L. L only be becaUSe of or by her relatives s t and nd friends for lor her th and nd welfare v and that neither romance nor persecution were In- In You couldn't have havo found me If it I hadn't hadn t agreed to Gt h Meeker when ho r But in Ul th the c course urs of t t the e confer o ter ContIn Continued d on n page II R RUNAWAY N A wA Y HEIRESS HEiRES'S ST STARTS ART R RETURN i ir TO V S HOME O AS Continued from page 1 y f yence ence ene Miss McConnell changed frontI front I am aih sorry I haye caused a. a sed so friends friend she l e h ha n said s ldA 1 I lIl be glad to togo go back to back have to-have have a happy happ Christmas The heiJ heiress was vas visibly relieved ved S and Meeker plainly was pleased at atthe atthe the successful e culmination lm tion of or his hiS' I dramatic cross-country cross c chase chas t i I ROCHESTER N N. Y 22 United Press Miss Miss Ruth RUll McConnell McCon n- n nell may ha have ve fled fIed of Kenneth B. B C n. n Iter Clifton Springs N. N Y millionaire ire then and again she may not have Eq Equivocations Equivocations' lv were about the net result of f an interview granted d at Clifton Springs sanitarium near here her by the crippled stock trader who is s si p supposed to have f financed the airplane pursuit of of the girl gIll by by- David q Q O. O Meeker i. eek r University of ot Rochester m medical senior Asked sl ed point blank whether the year old old heiress were running away his s attentions s tie fie he smiled Do I t. t look like the sort of ot man manfrom man manfrom manfrom from whose hose h se a attentions a girl giri would run i away he lIe asked r. r PARRIES A RIES QUESTIONS NS Other other Gather q q questions i he be pahi parried d. d with a. a proverb Wise men say say nothing times the transcontinental race race- be he confirmed the story told old by Meeker Meeker- in S San n Francisco o. o He Ic ex explained ex- ex Miss McConnell had disappeared disappeared h her r hotel here la last Saturday leaving her her room in disorder F Tearing Fearing ng she was too ill iU to tra travel el alone Meeker a friend a attempted empted to overt overtake le her by air I he said I dont don't know why she left the hotel so l Hurriedly dh Th That's s 's a mystery mys mys- tery to me It may be that a doctor she saw sa- sasai sai said l' l she would have to go goo goot goto goa t to a s' s sanitarium um and she didn't want to to so gd thinking she she he hec could c uld get et the the heed d r rest st with th friends out in Cal Cal- But how c l' l b be expected ted to know what's going on going ingon on in a a woman's womans worn wom ans an's mind 1 |