Yonkers, scaring hunters in the woods, |
|and causing hurry calls to the police from timid |
|housewives, has been captured by the reserves of the|
|Second precinct. He was caught last night in Belmont|
|woods, near the Empire City race track. |

_Entirely New Feature Played Up_

| =TWELVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL SUICIDE= |
| |
|Ruth Camilla Fisher knew a country wherein her |
|beauty was specie of the realm. It was bounded by |
|the ninth and twelfth birthdays. Its inhabitants |
|consisted of Fritz, an adoring dachshund; "papa," |
|who was a member of the school board and a great |
|man; and innumerable gruff little boys, who, |
|ostensibly ignorant of her observation, spat through|
|vacant front teeth and turned gorgeous somersaults |
|for her admiration. She was happy and the jealous |
|green complexion of the feminine part of her world |
|bothered her not at all. |
| |
|And unsuspectingly Ruth came singing across the |
|borders of her ain countree to the alien land of |
|knowledge and disillusionment. Though she knew she |
|came from God, it was gradually borne upon her that |
|her girl-mother wandered a little way on the path of|
|the Magdalenes. |
| |
|She was an interloper who had no gospel sanction in |
|the world, no visible parents other than a |
|foster-father and a foster-mother. Perfectly |
|respectable little girls began to inform her so with|
|self-righteous airs and with the expertness of |
|surgeons to dissect her from the social scheme that |
|governs puss-wants-a-corner with the same iron rule |
|that in later life determines who shall be asked to |
|play bridge and who shall be outlawed. |
| |
|"Your parents aren't your own," was the taunt that |
|Ruth heard from playmates. Some of the little girls |
|added the poison of sympathy to the information. And|
|Ruth Camilla Fisher at 12 found herself a stranger |
|in a strange land. |
|