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Show GIRL GROWS TIRED OF COUNTRY HOME Mary Ekntrm of Tooele, Thirteen Years Old, Taken Back by Father. Salt Lake, April 6. Ernest Eken-t Eken-t tram of Tooele appeared at police headquarters Monday night to taiga charge of his runaway daughter, Mary, aged 13 years. The girl left her home in Tooele early Sunday morning and came to Salt Lake. After wandering about the streets all day, poorly clad and Bhiverlng from the cold wind she was stopped by a patrolman on Main street Sunday night at about 11 o'clock. . rinding It impossibTe'to draw from her a ratlsfactory explanation aa to where she belonged, she was taken to the police station and was given lodging by Matron Glfford. Monday morning, upon being' questioned by Lieutenant Shannon, she said that she came to Salt Lake by appointment with a relative, a domestic In the house of a local railroad man, who had promised to procure work for her In sorao household. She was then taken to the address of her relative, who said that she knew nothing of the girl's coming and would not be responsible re-sponsible for her. She was returned to the police station,' and after telling various' stories she broke Into tears and said ihat she had left her home on. account of tho attentions of a man whose "name she refused to make known. Her father was communicated with, and when he arrived to take charge of his daughter Monday night, said she had tired of her country home and had left without saying anything to any member of the family. |