Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1919 — REMINGTON GIRL IN LIMELIGHT [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON GIRL IN LIMELIGHT

Miss Marlon Gaunt Told Weird Tales To Indianapolis Policewomen. The many strange and varied stories told to the women police yesterday by Marian Gaunt, the nineteen-year-old girl found by motor policemen Thursday night at the Traction and Terminal station, were all exploded last night when Miss Clara Burnside, supervisor of policewomen, received a telephone message from Mrs. Della Gaunt of Remington, Indiana, saying the girl is her daughter. Mrs. Gaunt, who said she and her husband would arrive in In- 1 dianapolls today to take their daughter home, was unable to account for the different stories told by the girl. She said they had ■sent her to the Good Samaritan hospital, at Kokomo, Indiana, to receive training as a nurse, anjl did not know how she happened to come to Indianatpolis.

The girl told the policewomen she was the daughter of a wealthy Chicago stock broker who recently committed suicide, said she * had five brothers in the army in France and declared ehe had attended Northwestern and Chicago universities. When questioned at various times she' changed the details of her former stories and told new ones just as startling. The »girl was taken to police headquarters Thursday night by motor policemen Schlangen and Dalton after she had told them she had been robbed of a purse containing 110. —Saturday’s Indianapolis News.

Under a Remington date line Monday’s Lafayette Journal said: Marion Gaunt, the young woman who created much excitement in Indianapolis by her romantic and conflicting stories regarding ner life, after she had been taken into custody by motor policemen Dalton and Schlangen, at the traction and terminal, statioh, was brought to her- home here yesterday 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 11’27 Sheridan road, Chicago. TO the officers she said that her father, a wealthy Chicago broker, had met with financial reverses and had committed sucide; that 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 unendurable, and had decided to run away from the place. When she reached Indianapolis she decided to go back td 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 storms she replied that she was afraid that 'She would get into trouble for deserting the hospital, as she bad enlisted as a nurse in Chicago and had been sent to Kokomo for duty. Mrs. Gaunt told supervisor of policewomen Miss Clara Burnside, that the girl, who is 19 years old, had been sent to the Good Sanfaritan hospital in Kokomo to receive training as a nurse, and that no reason was known for the startling and conflicting stories that the girl told the officers.