Runaway Girl Arrested, Doesn't Want To Be A Hobo

Indianapolis, 1912
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RUNAWAY GIRL CAUGHT

Police Arrest Her as a Hobo in the City of Indianapolis

Indianapolis, Aug. 24. - Oro Storts, 17 years old, a dark-haired girl, was found with Thomas White, 19 years old, in a box car in the Norwood railroad yards by Bicycle Policemen Hartsell and Chitwood. Oro had just changed men's clothes for her own clothing and, she said, had decided not to be a hobo.

Her home is at Chillicothe, O., where she ran away several weeks ago. She reached Indianapolis two days ago and met White on the circle. Both were arrested on loitering charges.

Hartsell and Chitwood were sent to the yards on a report from Norwood residents that a woman and a man were living in a box car, and it was feared the woman was being forcibly detained there. The girl denied this, however, after being taken to Central police station.

She said she had tried to obtain work and she broke down and sobbed when she told her reason for running away from home. She asserted she had been brutally mistreated by her father.

--The Evening Observer, Dunkirk, New York, August 24, 1912, page 1.