Burlington, July 29—Ruth Murrie, 15-year-old girl runaway from her home on route 4, near here, last Friday, is under arrest with two male companions in Knoxville, Tenn., according to a message received by Police Chief R.D. Rain at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon Her companions are said to be J.E. Clayton and L.H. Lyerly, unknown here.
E.M. Haynes, chief of police at Knoxville, advised the local police official in his wife that the girl he is holding declared she was Ruth Murrie and was in a Ford automobile, which she told him she had stolen from her father, Ira Murrie.
On his returned from a trip to Salisbury and Charlotte this morning, where the missing girl was reported as seen by several gas filling station employes, the father said he believed the girl was a victim of a sudden mental disorder, as she had been at certain periods in her life.
Along the route followed in the vain search for her, it was reported she was reduced to a pitiful state without funds, and at several gas stations had succeeded in buying small quantities of gasoline on credit. Food had been given her, it is said, by different ones who did not know the circumstances of her leaving home.
Members of the family had been in much distress since it became known the girl had idled her time in Burlington last Friday afternoon and night until 11 o’clock and then drove off toward Greensboro.
The Knoxville police will be advised to hold the young men companions of the girl until a thorough investigation can be made, to determine how and for what purpose they were traveling with her. It is believed they may be young men she may have known or recently met somewhere in North Carolina, possibly High Point, Salisbury or Charlotte.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, July 30, 1925.
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