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Show GIRL RIDES AWAY ON A HORSE . LOUIE MURDOCK IS AGAIN ON AN ESCAPADE. Valuable Animal Is Appropriated and Owner and Officers Are Searching for the Girl and Horse. Pe?plte her fervent promises to become be-come a pood girl and llvo down hr propensities for appropriating other people's horso and fleeing the town, ; Louie Murdock has again fallen from grace and the police are searching Ibe highways and by ways for trace of tho runaway. How many times this girl has stolen a horse and escaped from her home, her own mother can hardly enumerate. Although she is not really bad, her parents and other relatives are of tho opinion that the Industrial school Is the proper place for the young lady, but the Juvenile judge has steadfast- ly refused to allow her to be sent there, hoping that "one more chance" would prove her redemption. Judge Gunnell found a place for the girl several weeks ago at the homo of her grandmother, an agod lady living liv-ing on North Washington avenue. ; IiOuie did well for a time, but sudden-; sudden-; ly disappeared a week or so ago, tak-j tak-j Ing with her Bishop Martin's hor60 j and buggy, and $10 bolonging to her grandmother. She was accompanied this time by her brother, who was also under probation of tho Juvenile officers and making his homo temporarily tem-porarily with the bishop. The pair were caught at Layton and Bishop Martin was forced to travel a distance of twenty Ove miles or more to recover his property. The children's grandmother could ill af-; af-; ford the loss which she sustained. She I b compelled to weave carpets for a living, earning a meager support sup-port for herself and a young girl who lives with her. The loss of $10 under such circumstances was. therefore, a serious one. It was about decided that she would have to be sent to the Industrial institution, but again the kindly Intervention of tho Juvenile officers Beoured her release re-lease and she has since been stopping with a family by the name of Symos on Twelfth street. Yesterday afternoon, instead of going go-ing to school, Louie again succumbed to her wander-lust and forthwith appropriated ap-propriated tho horse of Henry Larson at Five Points. The animal was a . family driving pony and quite valuable, and Mr. Larson is concerned over its disappearance. He stated today that he was in favor of placing the girl In tie state school where she would be restrained in her propensities for running run-ning away and taking other peoplo's property. "This girl," he said, "Is not responsible respon-sible for her strange acts and should be placed where she will not be a constant menace to her neighbors. I have not only lost a good deal of time In searching for my property at times, but I supposo I have had at' least $10 worth of bridles and other parts of harnesses taken by this girl which I never recovered. The last time she took the harness off the horse and the animal came home without a strap on it. Bishop Martin was put to no end of Inconvenience a short time ago, and the girl's poor old grandmother sustained sus-tained a serious loss through her waywardness way-wardness at the same time. I believe in leniency and giving a child every chance before sending it to tho Industrial Indus-trial school, but this is a case where something of that kind is absolutely nocessary." The police are making an effort to locate the girl and horse before she has time to get far away and her disposition, dis-position, if captured. Is liable to result, re-sult, this time, in a reform school sentence. |