Miss Starnes, 15, Is Still Missing, June 23, 1924

Thought Missing Girl Was in Greenville. . . Efforts Made to Locate Beulah May Starnes, Who Left Home Here Several Days Ago

the following from the Sunday issue of the Greenville, S.C., News, will be read with interest here:

“Reulah May Starnes, 15-year-old girl of Concord, N.C., mysteriously disappeared from her home there Friday and is believed to be in Greenville in company with another woman and two men, according to a letter from the girl’s mother, received yesterday by Chief J.E. Smith, of the local police department.

“She was enticed from her home by a Mrs. Bobbie Jones, 21, of Concord, Mrs. Starnes stated in the letter, the two young women joining two men in a nearby city and then coming to Greenville.

“Where Mrs. Starnes secured her information as to the whereabouts of her daughter is unknown, but in the letter she added that arrangements had been made to secure board and lodging for the two girls and two men in a boarding house just outside the city limits on State Highway No. 8.

“A search for the girls by police was unrewarded yesterday, but it was hoped, they said last night, that the four will be arrested. The men, if apprehended, will be held for North Carolina and federal authorities, as it is expected charges of violating the Man White Slave Act will be made against them.”

It was stated here today by Chief Talbirt of the concord police department that no trace of the missing girl has yet been found. Her father went to Greenville Sunday and made a search of the city with police officers, but his daughter was not located.

From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, June 24, 1924

Beulah or Reulah? Talbirt?