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Show GIRL RUNS AWAY IN BOY'S ATTIRE Mother Says She Was Lured From Heme by Wayward Way-ward Companions; Other Runaways Caught LOS ANGELES CaL, Ce-t 2". Out at 1642 West Twentieth street Mrs. Grace Nelly is distracted over the loss of her daughter, Minnie, who with her brown hair e-0Tjped short and clad in . . boy's garb ran away from home and has not been heard from since. The mother believes Minnie was enticed away by two wayward girls who were " at one time inmates of the Good Shepherd Shep-herd 's home with her daughter. The girl is described by her mother as being an exceptionally pretty child, though stout for her age. She is 14 . years old, weighs 160 pounds and is five feet and five inches tall. Her eves are dark brown and her short cropped hair is a beautiful tinge of brown, a shade lighter than her eyes. Two pretty girls, Flora Brady and Evelyn Roberts, who- ran away from their homes near San Bernardino were fonnd by Detectives Hosick and Ziegler a few minutes after they had been employed em-ployed as saleswomen in a local store. The girls were placed in the detention home awaiting the call of thejr parents. Flora Eoberts asserts she ran away from home because her correspondence with a young man was objected to by her parents, and Evelyn Roberts said she fhad many reasons" for her ac- The father of Flora Brady is a rancher near Rialto, and the father of the Roberts girl is a nurseryman with gardens situated between Rialto and San Bernardino. Ronald Mills, .3 years old, wandered away from his home at 16 East avenue ave-nue "Twenty-eight while his mother was attending ner husband who is ill and was picked up by a patrolman who placed him in charge of the matron at the police station awaiting the call of his parents. . Mrs. Mills called for the baby within an hour and carried him home. Though but a mite, the child climbed a four-foot fence in making Lis escape from the back yard where his mother left him. |