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Show 'v-IC-a-SiaUCK GIRL III TGiViD.S FOR' STEALING BOA . - Vas Starving: and Took Furs to fawn, for Money to . ; Pay for Rent and Buy Food. NEW YORK,. Nov. 12."I-flo not tltnk It wa wrong; to take something - tlat did not belong to me I mean when I was starving to death do youT'J and tie round cheeks flushed as Mabel Day-nan, Day-nan, so eager to be a theatrical star In lew York that ehe left her good home someere In the West, sank down up-m up-m hVVycot in the Tombs prison and vepL' Charged with the theft of a fur oa valued at 45, she was held for trial i the Jefferson Market Polio oourt and . -tfien sent to the Tombs, j "Oh, I don't mean that," she continued. contin-ued. "I mean New York was so cold 4nd hard. Everywhere' I went they Jughed at me and told me to go hpme." She wept softly. "My family didn't want me to go on tte stage. They all said it would end Jke this No, 1 haven't a lawyr, am just going to let fate,do what 11 will. I Jave tried to be good and honest., j "For three weeks I lived on next to bothlng. Then Saturday cam. Th rnt was due. I had no food for two aays emd the city seemed to be trying to kill me. I 'went down to the managers- offices on Broadway again. I thought if I would be gay and happy-looking happy-looking that someone would give m work. But they laughed and Joked with me Just as they did for three months, and told me to come again. "Oh, I-was so hungry and I couldn't go back to my room. Eo I walked around trying to plan some way of getting money, for everything, I had was In pawn. Then I went into the store. v I didn't know what I wanted to do, but then It dawned on me that I might get work If. I had money to hold out,' so I took the boa. I knew that with It I could pay my rent and Uv a few days longer and perhaps get work; then I would pay for the boa. "This Is what I got for it," she continued, con-tinued, brokenly. "Why,,! am In a sort of das. Every little while I ask myself If I am awake. J don't seem to be. No, Dayman Is not my name. But I shall never, never let my people know what becomes of me. The disgrace would be awful out home. I have a biff brother oh, how I wish he were her! "Why, did I com to New York? Well, I used to attend the matinees out home, and I got a chance in a small part with a one-nlght-stand company. And I got a lot of nice notice, and I Just planned to come to New York and ask Mr. Frohman for an engagement as a leading lead-ing lady. I saved money, and last August Au-gust I came. Mr. Frohman wouldn't eee me. They didn't need any leading ladles, the office boy said. Then I went to a lot of rnore agents, and they all bad leading ladles already. 'Then I tried for anything. And everybody laughed and told m td come again. They would sit and talk with me, but never gave me an engagement. "One a nice old man. Col. Brown, told me that there, were thousands of girls trained Ones, too trying and not getting Jobst, and that It was a hard season and that I had better go home. Mrs. Packard told me the same thing. Then I felt hopeless and the city seemed Just crushing me. And then Saturday Sat-urday came the day when I was oh, why didn't I die before that happened to me!" And the girl who dreamed of being a great star sank down upon the only; thing the big city had ever given her ' an iron cot and wept bitterly. |