Carthage, Aug. 2—Failing to find any trace of the girl, Moore county officers now believe that Tillie Moore who two weeks ago, jumped from the rapidly moving car of Sheriff R.G. Fry, miraculously escaped serious injury and is now at liberty. The girl was being taken to the Mecklenburg Industrial school at Charlotte when she took the daring leap from the car beyond Albemarle. Officers at first thought she might have been fatally injured and died near the scene of her escape, but nothing has been seen or heard of her after a diligent search.
Sheriff Fry now believes the girl hid herself until they had left the scene, then returning to the road she waited until a passing motorist picked her up and took her out of the vicinity.
The Moore officers since then have been called upon to seize another girl who has escaped from the same institution. She was nell Hampton, about 18 years of age, pretty, vivacious and unusually intelligent. She escaped from the school by cutting through a screen door with a knife and then lowering herself to the ground by the aid of sheets.
The girl assigned her downfall to the dance. “Before I was married,” she told Sheriff Fry, “I had never taken a drink. My husband always took in the dances and it was there with the so-called ‘best people’ that I began taking social drinks.” Wild living followed, culminating in the series of disasters, and then a divorce. She is now back in the Mecklenburg institution serving her time.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, August 3, 1925
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