{"id":258,"date":"2015-10-23T04:48:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T04:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=258"},"modified":"2022-11-28T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:55:34","slug":"two-little-girls-of-santa-rosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/10\/23\/two-little-girls-of-santa-rosa\/","title":{"rendered":"TWO LITTLE GIRLS OF SANTA ROSA – 1906"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tAbstract $420 From \u201cBank\u201d in<\/strong>
\nWoodpile and Start on<\/strong>
\nLong Journey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sacramento Union, 1 November 1906<\/em><\/p>\n

The four children who were arrested
\nTuesday night in this city while fleeing
\nfrom their homes in Santa Rosa,
\nwere taken back yesterday by Constable
\nS. J. Gillam of that place. The
\ntwo elder girls, Maggie Givelin and
\nNora Downey, aged 14 and 12 years
\nrespectively, will be charged with
\ngrand larceny. The constable says
\nthat the story as told by the Downey
\ngirl is in the main correct, but instead
\nof leaving Santa Rosa to go to her
\nfather in Caldwell, Idaho, she fled in
\norder to get away with the money\u2014
\n$420\u2014stolen from George Givelin,
\nfather of the other three children.
\nWhen George Givelin went home
\nfrom his work Tuesday evening his
\nthree children were missing. As he
\nhad lost money several times before
\nand knew that his eldest daughter,
\nMaggie Givelin, had taken it, his first
\nthought was that she might have taken
\nthe money that he had hidden in the
\nfamily woodpile. She had said that she
\nwould leave her home some day and
\ntake the younger children with her.
\nHis worst fears were quickly realized
\nwhen he went to his cache and found
\nthe tin box in which he had placed
\n$420, representing his savings for years,
\nhad vanished.
\nThe alarm was given and the police
\nfound upon investigation that the children
\nleft on the train, and that they
\nhad bought through tickets for Caldwell,
\nIdaho. The youngsters, before
\nleaving, purchased an entire outfit of
\nclothing, the best that George Givelin’s
\nhard-earned money could buy, in the
\nstores of Santa Rosa. That was not
\nall.\u00a0 Nora Downey, who it seems was
\nthe leading spirit of the affair, had
\nstarted out to do things in style and
\nshe engaged swell state-room on the
\nPullman section of the train and paid
\nfor it. The little party of juveniles
\nwere traveling in style and nothing
\nwas too good for them.
\nThe story that came up from Santa
\nRosa is that the youngsters decamped
\nand that Mrs. Minnie Downey did not
\nknow that her daughter had left until
\ntold by the police.
\nThe girl, notwithstanding
\nher tender years, is said to
\nbe old in the ways of the world. She
\nhad not been trained as she should
\nhave been. She had had the run
\nof the streets, and did as she pleased.
\nYoung as she is, and still in her short
\ndresses, she has given the police no
\nend of trouble. She ran away two
\nmonths ago and went to Hollister, it is
\nsaid, with man. When the constable
\nwent after them the man had fled, but
\nthe girl was caught. She succeeded in
\ngiving the officer the slip and he had
\nlong tedious chase before recapturing
\nher. Then she was shackled like
\nhardened criminal and taken back.
\nPositive proof that she was accompanied
\nby the man was lacking, and
\nshe was turned over to her mother
\nwith the warning that she would be
\nsent to reform school if she ever appeared
\nin the court again.
\nThe smallest little tot, Annie Bell
\nGivelin, is little bit of girl and she
\nhas won over Matron Phelps of the re-
\nceiving hospital by her ways. She
\nseemed to be having fine time and
\nsaid that the big policeman was mean
\nnot to let her have the car ride out.
\nWhen leaving yesterday the little girl
\ntold the matron that she would come
\nback some day and visit her and stay
\na whole week.
\nThe officers in Santa Rosa have
\npositive proof that the money was
\nstolen by Maggie Givelin and Nora
\nDowney and that they took the two
\nsmaller children, Oney and Annie Givelin,
\nalong to cover up their tracks. The
\nlittle ones saw the elder girls take the
\nmoney.
\nGeorge Givelin claims that $420 was
\ntaken and after, all the money that the
\ngirls spent is accounted for there remains
\n$144 that cannot be found.
\nWhere this money has gone is the
\nproblem that the officers think they
\ncan solve. It is thought that Abe
\nGoetz, the bartender whom Nora
\nDowney said had given her the money
\nto go to Idaho, may know something
\nabout the balance of the money. Constable
\nGillam says the authorities will
\nprefer serious charge against Goetz.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abstract $420 From \u201cBank\u201d in Woodpile and Start on Long Journey. Sacramento Union, 1 November 1906 The four children who were arrested Tuesday night in this city while fleeing from their homes in Santa Rosa, were taken back yesterday by Constable S. J. Gillam of that place. The two elder girls, Maggie Givelin and Nora … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,3825],"tags":[4127,1471,4218,1510],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-258","7":"format-standard","8":"category-california-history","9":"category-california-newspaper-archive","10":"category-faits-divers","11":"category-history","12":"post_tag-4127","13":"post_tag-sacramento","14":"post_tag-sacramento-union","15":"post_tag-santa-rosa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4999,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/4999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}