New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-10-28
Clerk G. A. Blomberg Replies to
Austin Banker.
Reiterates Charges He Made Pre-
viously.
Can Prove Allegations in Myra
Starr Case.
ST. PETER, MINI, Oct. 26, 1903.

OF. LETTER., mlNN OcG. 20, 1910
EDITOR REVIEW,
Gen tlemen -
1naamuch as you so very kindly copied
an article written by me to the st. Peter
Tribune of Oct. Z, concerning the lost
child, Myra Pearl Starr, and the acts OF
Supt. Galen A. Merrill of the Minnesota
State Public School, located at Ovation
ma, Mimi, and whereas said article as
afore mentioned, appeared in your issue
of Oct. IA. with your comments, and IN
asmuch as I have been the cause of un.
just criticism of yourself by one Mr.,
O. W. Shaw of Austin, Mimi, in an ar
ticle appearing in the Brown County
Journal of Oct. "a, I respectfully ask
permission for space in your paper in
order to enable me to reply to his per
version IF facts in this case as they APP
pear of record and cannot be disputed
by any fair minded man. And mas
much as Mr.. O. W. Shaw takes pains to
advise the public that he IS president OF
the Board of Control of this school and
sees fit to take upon himself the evident
burden of Supt. Galen A. Merrill Of
said school. -s*- .tz
The law governing this school has
been brought into play. Does it occur
to you, Mr.. Shaw, that we have also a
school in this state for feeble minded
persons. It would, in my opinion be as
competent and as relevant to recite the
law governing this school in this case,
as one is as foreign to the real issue in
this matter as the other. It is the acts
of Supt. Merrill and his apt and chosen
language used that have made an at
tack upon in this case, and you now, Mr..
Shaw, attempt to shield Mr.. Merrill and
your Board by throwing out slurs and
lnsinuatlons upon the character of an
innocent woman, the mother of the child
in question, who has nothing to do with
my charges preferred against Supt Mer-
rill, who, with the Board of Control of
this school nearly succeeded IN tearing
out of the breast of this mother her
heart by the roots, by the continued re-
fusal to disclose the whereabouts of her
child, which said acts would no doubt
have sent her to premature grave had
I not succeeded in restoring to her the
child which by natural laws of right
and justice belonged to her.
/ repeat it, Mr.. Merrill was aware OF
the fact that this child was not legally
adopted in 1898 and in 1899 when he
stated to this mother and her counsel
that the child was legally adopted and
was beyond recall. I denounce any
man that has an inch of manhood in him
for attempting to assail the character OF
any woman, in order to cover up his
own acts, as a coward and unfit to asso.
|,ciate with men, s--.--
Mr.. Shaw, among other things, says,
"The statement attributed to Supt. Mer-
rill that he would make it his business
to see that she (the mother) should new.
er gaze upon the face of the child is
false in every particular" I herewith
stand by each and every allegatio 4
made in my article of Oct. 18th, as print.
in the New Ulm Review, and stand
ready to prove them by competent evi.
dence. Ii anyone feels aggrieved he
has his remedy; and allow me to say nc
| one need serve a summons and com
plant upon me by publication; I will
admit of personal service at any time
Ny residence is St. Peter, and has beer
for the last past thirty-three years, and
rest assured I will answer.
Again Mr.. Shaw states, 81 have as 6
member of the Board of this school
been associated with HIM Mr.. Merrill
for fifteen years, and reasonably cognl.
zant of the internal workings of its ad.
ministrations." Let US see whether this
statement of Yours is true. In your
communication you state the attor,
| ney for the mother of this child wrote
letter in 1899 asking if the child hac
been legally adopted. Now, Mr.. Shaw
you claim you are ''cognizant' or reas
onably so, OF the internal workings Of
this institution. Now, if this is fact
you are evidently nearing the period Of
dotage or by some unavoidable circum-
stance have lost your memory. Allow
me to refresh it for you. In letter