Young Ann Arbor Girl's Trouble

Chicago dispatches state that little Loie Florence McClay, of Ann Arbor, Mich., aged 15, detained at the Harrison st. police station annex on account of a row with her landlady, consented to talk more freely about herself this morning. She said: "My mamma is Mrs. W. J. McClay, of Ann Arbor, Mich. Papa died and we were left with a large mortgage on our home, and no means of support. So mamma taught me how to make pretty sachet bags. She sent them to Chicago to the big stores, but they couldn't pay anything like the value of the bags and we could not make ends meet. So mamma let me come here to sell them directly to the ladies who used them. I have made sometimes $50 a week. Mrs. Winters with whom I boarded at 294 Superior st., did not treat me very gently, and I returned a slap. Then I was arrested."

Capt. Reeves received a telegram from Mrs. McClay, saying she would send a letter which would explain the child's presence alone in Chicago.

She is said to have arrived in Chicago Thanksgiving day and the quarrel with her landlady developed into a hair pulling match.

There is no such name in the new Ann Arbor directory as Mrs. W. J. McClay.