IN ANTIOCH, CALIF., YESTERDAY - Frances Farmer of Seattle, screen actress, who pleaded quilty in police court to a charge of vagrancy, voluntarily remained in the city jail while awaiting the arrival of her father, E. M. Farmer, attorney, from Reno, Nev. She was fined $10, but the fine was suspended. Miss Farmer, recently released from the Washington State Hospital at Steilacoom, Wash., went to Reno with her father. She was dressed in overalls and army shirt when arrested after loitering in Antioch three days, penniless and without means of support. When offered aid she responded: " I want to be strong enough to fight for myself." Her father said she had been missing since July 14.

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ANTIOCH, Calif., July 29 - (AP)

Blond, tousle-haired Frances Farmer voluntarily spent last night in the city jail awaiting the arrival of her father, Attorney E. M. Farmer of Seattle, from Reno, Nev., after her arrest on a vagrancy charge.

Police chief Al Leroy said the former film actress, whom he arrested yesterday for "hanging around" Antioch for "three or four days," was docile and contented with her stay in jail. Leroy charged her under the vagrancy law with being penniless and without visible means of support.

Attired in blue jeans and work shirt, Miss Farmer pleaded guilty before Justice of Peace Tom Milan, who fined her $10 and suspended sentence.

Article appeared in the Seattle Times - July 29, 1944

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When offered assistance Miss Farmer responded: "I want to be strong enough to fight for myself."

Miss Farmer ignored scores of telephone calls offering aid from San Francisco, Hollywood and New York, jailers said.

At Reno, Police Chief Harry D. Fletcher disclosed Farmer reported his actress-daughter missing July 14. Miss Farmer had been taken to Reno for treatment after her release from Western State Hospital at Steilacoom, Wash., where she had been pronounced "completely cured" of a mental illness.