The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-07-16
HE WANTS
To LEARN
WHO He IS
RslthmI|Isr Hopes TO Gain tho
Information Through Prosscu-
ton Of His Foster Mother

Bridgeport. Conn. July i6-George
Reithmiller. well-to-do and cookbook
ing young man. OF this city, has been
busy and has kept detectives busy the
past few months trying to find out who
he really is.
His investigation OF the mystery that
has surrounded his life led TO the arrest
OF Mrs. Louise Haslock on a charge OF
bigamy brought by Isaac T. Raymond,
and young Reithniler hopes 10 evolve
out of her trial "A full confession from
Mrs. Hallock as 10 his real identity.
Il want 10 know who / am" said
Reithmiller TO a reporter today. II am
twenty-nfne years ofd and am beginning
to realize that Il is high time was
clearing up matters concerning my birth.
Mrs. Halock. with whom / have lived a
great part OF my life since infancy. says
she is not my mother. She says she
found me in an sshbarrel in New York
city.
There is some mystery about this.
believe she knows who my father Is and
who my mother is, and / am going 10 see
II she cannot be forced 10 explain all I'm
court. The charge OF bigamy against her
is brought by Isaac Il. Raymond, her
former husband. who claims that they
were never divorced"
Mrs. Hallock tells a strange story
about the life OF the waif she says she
picked from an ash barrel I'm New York
twenty-nine years ago.
1T is true that l was once married 10
Isaac T. Raymond" said the woman,
but we lived together but a short time
could not live happily with him, and one
day after We had quarrelled and he or
dered me TO leave his house ] started for
New York city where / had a woman
friend living on Tenth avenue, near
Forty-second street When l went there |
found that my friend had moved away
a few days before. felt III and sat
down for awhile upon a stoop along
Forty-second street.
II had not been sitting there long when
/ heard a faint cry I'm an ash barrel near
meal looked in the barrel and found a
tiny baby boy wrapped in a piece OF fine
shawl. / was taking IL out when l felt
the strong clutch of mans hand. The
stranger said: I've got you now, caught
you trying to kill your infantr
Il was taken 10 police station,
think IL was on East Eleventh street. The
sergeant asked me II / was trying TO
make away with my. own child and / an
swered that the child was not mine, but
/ had just found q when the policeman
or detective seized me. / told him / was
81 married woman from Norwalk. He
locked me and the baby up over night
and investigated my statement and found
that II was true.
He let me go free and asked me II
wanted TO keep the baby / was anxious
to do so. secured letters establishing my
reputation as a proper person TO take the
child. and brought II away from New
York with me.
After that my husband and / never
lived happ. v, so / was advised to get a
divorce from him. A friend OF mine act
ed for me. i remember going TO New
Haven and testifying concerning my
husbands conduct. and l was given a
paper which they said was a divorce. l
have lost that paper now, or some one
has stolen 1t.
II was too poor TO keep the child a
few years later so gave 1t 10 my sister
Mrs. Reithmiller. and the baby was
named George Reithmiller. When he grew
up he went away and after several years
came back to me. He has lived with me
and my second husband, Mr.. Hallock,
ever since until a few months ago, when
he became infatuated with a woman and
began TO ask all sorts OF questions con-
cerning the mystery OF his birth. He
seemed to think shat / had taken him
from rich parents and that there was
some big ransom money to fall to me
someday."
Mr.. Hallock declared that his invalid
wife is being prosecuted because of a
whim on the part of the young man she
rescued a walf.