The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-25

A heartbroken mother called at 2olice
headquarters yesterday and begged
the police to help her rescue her fallen
daughter from house Of shame. The
scene was one never to be forgotten by
those who witnessed it. The name Of
the family is withheld for reasons that
will he potent to the heads Of all good
homes, for it was from such one
that this fairest flower had been
robbed by the faint of unguarded as
sociations.
In the neighborhood of Eighth
South and Eighth and Ninth
West. is a home where a number of
beautiful girls have been the JOY OF
two of the happiest parents in all
Zion until a short time ago, when a
'sbig day" at lake resort was an
event which marked the crushing of
the girl
The First Blush of Shame.
The events which led up to the
moral tragedy enacted yesterday at
police headquarters are very br1ef,
however, heartrending they may be. 1t
has been the habit of the young lady
in question to participate in the harm
less gaieties and amusements incident
to the better social instruction
of youth. She is but II
years old, brunette, and very pretty
Naturally Miss Mabel, for that is her
given name, had many suitors. But
with all that watchful care Mabel be-
came careless on the day and night
in question, and it was next morning
when she returned home from her out
ing.
The Last ScoIding.
AS a natural sequence both parents
were not light in their censure of their
daughters conduct, the father, per-
haps, little too severe. His remarks,
it appears, so wounded the daughter
that she considered it an open insult,
and she then and there resolved to
lead a life of shame, and so informed
a sister.
The girl left home yesterday morn
ing without saying word to anybody.
She came up town and applied to sew
eral houses for admission, but the
landladies would not entertain her
propositions after hearing her truthful
story. Finally, after going the rounds,
she succeeded in getting admitted to
a new dive contiguous to the city hall.
In the Den.
1t was about 10 o'clock when the girl
gained entrance to this place, and it
was about 10 o'clock when the land
lady had a dressmaker fitting a dress
for her to be worn to receive in the
evening" She was thus partly at
tired when Detective Sheets and
Herald reporter called and found the
girl yet secure from all unholy faint,
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She was told to dress as quickly as
possible, and was soon crying her
heart out on her mothers breast in
the police assembly room.
Still Defiant.
Notwithstanding that she wept as
though her heart would break when
once more in her mothers embrace, as
soon as the first we'll of emotion was
spent she drew away from her mother
and declared she would never go home
and that her father would never for
give her.
The mother protested as only
mother can, but the daughter became
more and more obdurate, and it was
only when an official of the reform
school stepped into police headquarters
and his attention was called to the
case, and he, by invitation, told her
what there was in store for her If her
mother only said the word, that the
young lady threw up her bargain for
sin and concluded to return home.
Home, Home, Sweet Home.
At this point there was scene that
beggars description. The mother al
most tainted for joy. The lady who ac-
companied her, Mabers aunt, and the
now thoroughly subdued girl mingled
their tears on each others breasts,
and the officers, who are used to see
ing all kinds of heartaches and heart
breaks, were moved to signs and
turned away to hide the diamonds that
would not keep back from the eyes of
some of them. A carriage was called
and soon the happiest mother in the
city was rolling home with her most
loving but Wayward and indiscreet
child. But she was saved, and the
Thank Godr' that came from her
lips when her daughter finally said
she would go with her, left an i'm
preston with those present that will
never be effaced from their memories.
The Herald, in publishing this ex-
elusive story, hopes the young lady
will follow her mothers advice.