The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-30
AN UNF0RGIVING MOTHER
Cast Off Her Daughter Because the Girl
Still Loved Her Divorced Father.
Strange Story Brought Out by the Arrest of
Edna Huested for Paltry Theft-Touching
Scene at the Home for the Friendless.

Officer William Rafferty, was approached
by q young man in the Union Station aboua
noon yesterday. who asked him to arrest a
young woman who had just slghted from
the cars. charging that she was fugitive.
The man was w. l.. Baldwin. of Greenfield,
and he claimed that the girl was former
domestic in his family, now endeavoring to
escape with the goods she had stolen from
him.
The girl was taken in charge by the Of
fcer and sent to the police station, where
she gave the name of Carrie Heiney. She
was apparently about twenty years of age,
prepossesslng in appearance, but attlred in
extremely plain garments. She was placed
In the care of Mrs. Buchanan. police mat
o .so tn an when left sh. the broke SSs
into tears and confessed that she
had in her possession several articles that
did not belong to her. These articles proved
to be an old calico dress q cheap hat and
apron and fifteen cents in money. which
she had taken from the Baldwin home at
Greenfield. Her accuser considerably
agreed to pursue her no further ii she would
give up the goods. wi ich she did willingly.
Mrs. Buchanan kindly took the girl into
which has a sequel. The matron, as she
sat listening to the miserable, sObbing
creature. believed she recognized some
thing familiar about the trim figure. and
tale the kind-hearted woman remembered
with startling reality scene she had wit
messed some three years ago. and which she
never forgot.
In $780, while Mrs. Buchanan was su per-
lntendent of the Home for Friendless
night q young girl, homeless. friendless
and seeking shelter from the world. She
related q romantic story and said that her
name was Edna Huested. The authorities
at the home hardly credited the fairy tale
advanced by the waif and after day or
two learned that the girl was the daughter
of one of the prOudest families in the little
town OF Cumberland. ten miles east of this
city. To the mother Mrs. Buchanan
penned letter. and by return mail re-
ceived an anewer-a missive indicted by
an educated woman, but couched in the
cold. hard words that afterward had their
influence in the most bitter way. Edna
was her daughter. the woman wrote but
she had disowned her; she had given her
all the chances In her power to make some
thing of herself, but the daughter had
neglected them. In conclusion the writer
said: Il never want to see her face again;
Edna has aOwn the wind and must reap the
whirlwind."
Three days later the mother entered the
Home for Friendless Women. and was led
into the presence of her daughter. The
scene tDaI 1OllOWeu Will forever l1nger In
the minds of the officials of the home-the
mother embIttered, naughty and unforgiv-
Ing the daughter on her knees. pitcously
weeping and begging to be taken home and
given a chance to improve her opportun-
ities The interview ended as it began,
and the mother left the institution TO con-
suit attorney with q view to sendin z
Edna to the Reform School, In this she
failed, and returned home, expressing the
desire that she never see the girl again. In
her charges against her daughter the
mother did not acense her of immoral con-
duct. or of even indiscreet acts. but gave as
her reason for casting the girl off. a dis posi-
tion on the latter's part TO clina to her
father, from whom the mother had
been divorced SIX years before.
Edna she said. had insisted on Gull
tivating her fathers relatives and gone so
far as TO leave her home and come TO this
city Co Join them at their home on English
avenue. Edna had written her from this
city, explaining that she intended living
here and this the mother could not for
give. What become OF her daughter after
she came to this city she never knew until
notified by Mrs Buchanan.
After the scene at the home the girl left.
followed by the kind advice Of the superin-
tendent. TO become a wanderer again. Some
time since she became a servant girl in the
Greenfield family, but poverty. combined
with an utter hopelessness OF the future.
impelied her to leave tho place and take
the few paltry articles that placed her be-
hind the bars. She was released and will
not be prosecuted.