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Show GIRL SAYS SHE WAS DRIVEN OUT Salt Lako City Feb. 13. While walking his boat at i oclcuK Suuda morning Patrolman Lester Who wnh amazed to find trying to hldo In a doorway of a Third South street store tho small figure of a 17-year-old girl dressed In male attire. Sho was shivering shiv-ering from cold or fear but- was reassured re-assured when Wire spoko to her kind ly and asked her to accompany him to pollco headquarters where she could bo treated well and her troubles troub-les Investigated. Tho girl said her name was Hannah Han-nah Hussy, daughter of Elliot Hus sy( a smeltermnn of Murray, and that she wiih forced to leave her home because of abuses Reaped upon ber by tier stepmother. The girl mlibe-i plteously as sho related her story Sho said her mother died when she was about S months old and that her futher married another womnn. The stepmother according to tho girl 111 used her nnd sho was forced to fleo. Miss Hussy said sho came, to Salt Lako to make her homo with an aunt Mih. Margaret Mlscll, 49 Sixth West street, but that her undo did not like her nnd made things so uncomtort-ablo uncomtort-ablo for her she was forced to leave that place. "Ilefore coming to Salt Lako I-went I-went to l'rovo to visit an aunt, Mrs. Cuitnln," said the girl, "but tho boys were dlsngrcoablc to mo and I left theie mid camo to Salt Lake. I had no money so I sold my hald, which was nulto long, to 10. Sasse, 21S Houtli Main street. Ho only gavo mo $1.8f for it nnd that was not enough to pay my faro out of town. I had taken somo clothes from my undo and dressed up like a boy and I Intended to make my way In the world iih a boy but what little money I got for my tresses was soon gone and I was hungry nnd had no placo to go." Tho girl wus pluced In chaYog of Matron Clifford who mado her com-fortablo com-fortablo and tho pollco promised to make an Investigation of hor cnto and do what thoy could for her. Tho girl seemed worried aver tho loss of her hair but seemed i.o feel better when Mrs. Ulfford told hor sho could wear u wig until her hair grow out again. Yesterday afternoon the police pol-ice got into communication with the girl's auut but no arrangments wcro mado to tako her there. Instead, sho was offered u good homo in the city by tho family of a well known restaurant restau-rant man nnd, nccompalned by' Matron Mat-ron Zella Qlfford, the girl was taken to her new home. Tho pollco nro Indignant over tho actions of Sasse, who cut off thu girl's hair nnd only gave her JI.&5, and an Investigation Is to bo mado by tho juvenile court oflclala. |