Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1919 — RUNAWAY GIRL RETURNS HOME [ARTICLE]

RUNAWAY GIRL RETURNS HOME

MARIAN GAUNT, OF REMINGTON, CREATES SENSATION BY CONFLICTING TALES. • ■ t « Remington, Jan. 26.—Marian Gaunt, the young woman who created much excitement in Indianapolis by her romantic and conflicting stories regarding her life, after she had been taken into custody by motor policemen Dalton and Schlangen, at the traction arid terminal station, iwas -brought to her home hens ytiateritoy by her parents, who went to Indianapolis for the girl when her startling stories to the police had reached them. The girl arrived in Indianapolis almost penniless, and when taken into custody by the officers said that she had been robbed of $lO and had no money to take her back home, which she said was 1127 Sheridan road, Chicago. To the officers she said that her father, a wealthy Chicago broker, had met with s financial reverses and had comm it e d suicide; ithat her mother was dead, and that she had five brothers in service in France. She claimed that up to last Monday she had been a student nurse in the Good Samaritan hospital, in Kokomo, but that she was nagged there until the life became unbearable, and had decided to run away from the place. When she reached Indianapolis she decided to go bactk to Chicago and begin all over again, when she lost her money, as she said, and could go no further. She also claimed that she had spent four years in the University of. Chicago. When questioned by the police as to the reason for her conflicting stories she replied that she was afraid that she would get into trou>le for deserting the hospital, as she had enlisted as a unrse in Chicago and had been sent to Kokomo for duty. Mrs. Gaunt told sopervisor of policewomen, Miss Clara Burnside, ;hat the girl, who is 19 years old, had >een sent to the Good Samaritan hospital in Kokomo to receive training a nurse, and that no reason was known for the startling and conflicting Stories that the girl had told the officers. ... . ~ J..JJ