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Show WILD 30-MILE RIDE OF GIRL AND BOY lUde on Bumpers of Freight Train, Clinging to Brake Beam, and Are Uninjured. Marlon, O Our stepmother didn't treat us llko mamma did and so we Juit run away said pretty 17-year old Nettle Hatcher who, with her 13 year-old brother Kininct, was cap-turod cap-turod at Marlel after having ridden tho bumpera uf u lllg Pour freight train for 30 miles. Tho children loft their home, a i abort distance from Mount Vlckury, telling their tlepmuthor they wero going to hunt up young turkoyt In tho flolds. Instead they walked to tho little ttntlon, wheru thoy crawled bo twoen tho bumpers uf a freight train and rodo through this city as far as Caledonia, ten miles east ot hern, whoro they were discovered by tho (onductor and put off at tho depot After spending thu night tn tho tta lion they walked tn Martel, a die-tanco die-tanco of four miles, and were arrest-d arrest-d by Marshal Trlckey, who had reel re-el ved a description of tho runaways. Whllo the children were sleeping ioundly In the village depot at Calo Ionia their father. John Hatcher, a well to-do farmer, with a posso of 100 men from Mount Victory, I-a Ituo and gosta, scoured tho woods and fields all night for them It was feared that thoy had boon killed or kid naped, as tho father never dreamed of their running away "We Juit clung onto the brakebeam for dear life," said tho girl whon brought hero "llrother and I never thought of the danger, I guoss Wo H Just wsnted to got away on, any- HI wheru, Just to wa got away and we'd H get along somehow I can work and HI to can brother We have to on tho H farm Yet, 1 came near falling off H ''f, I THKY CI.l.'NO TO Till: IIIIKAK III- Ml H roil DKAlt I.IPK. H onco between the ears, but I caught jk tho brakebeam Just tn tlmo and Km M met nnd I held to eaih other thin H until they put us off." H Dospllo her disheveled appearance jHJ thn girl looked pretty, with her big H black eyes and coal black hair In H striking contrast to her rosy cheeks M The runaways were taken home by jjH tho father (Zj |