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With only twenty-five cents among them, two girls and three boys of Cedar Rapids were taken into custody yesterday by the sher iff at Marshalltown, and their “westward ho” adventure came to a sudden end, according to an As sociated Press dispatch. The five runaways are Glenn Suits, 13, 652 Twentieth avenue; Joe Harover, 13, 513 South Second street west; Or land King, 16, 1224 South Third street; Leona Kirby, 12, 1416 South Second street west, and Inez Sterns, 14, 518 South Third street west. The quintet left Cedar Rapids yesterday noon in the car belong ing to young King’s mother, Mrs. Odessa King. One of the members of the party phoned a local garage, in which the car was kept, and gave her name as Mrs. King. She told the garageman to let Orland have the car. They intended to go to Omaha, according to the story they told at Marshalltown, but were doomed for disappointment when their car burned out a bearing near that place. The boys said they had had nothing to eat since yesterday noon. Sheriff H. J. Manchester here was notified, and after Deputy Sheriff R. R. Slade had made an investi gation, the case was turned over to Mrs. Elizabeth Rose, probation of ficer. She expects to go to Mar shalltown tomorrow morning to re turn the runaways here to be dealt with in the juvenile court.
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The Evening Gazette and Republican
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Mon, Feb 13, 1928
Page 12
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