The Detroit times., 1910-01-19
TELLS Of FIGHT TO
LIVE DOWN PAST
America Persecutes Ex-Convict,
Says Wife of Man Who Will
Be Deported.

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-Sitting des-
perate, having tried every avenue OF
hope, Mrs. Margaret Reiner. OF No.
40 Palmetto-st., Brooklyn. poured out
her soul In troubled tale OF persecu-
tion. ill-luck and striving after better
things. She had just returned from
Ellis Island. where, with her TWO sons,
one almost baby and the other al
most a man. she had visited her hus-
band, Alexander Edmond Reiner, whom
the United States government will de-
port as an ex-convict. Her Ameri-
canized sixteen-yearold son translated
the German wom>n's tory.
Reiner was extradted TO Germany
April Is. 1908, on the charge OF EN-
bezzling $4,000 from his employers.
He had come TO America two and
half years before from Brunswick,
where he had worked for Lauenbuerg
& Co, His wife, following him with
their little son, came by way of Aus
tralia and San Francisco German de-
tectives followed her and her husband
was found. He served five years In
prison after being deported. and, filled
with determination TO make the most
of his life. he came back to America,
found his family and got employment
Word came that the authorities had
decided that he must go back to Ger
many
All Go On Thursday.
He slept at Ellis Island and his little
family went to see him and tell him
that when els carried aboard the
ship they will ell be there to go with
him. The elder child is now a Pratt
Institute boy, with desire to excel in
electrical engineering The baby"
Herbert, is six years old. was born in
Brooklyn and Is more American than
his big brother.
When | think OF all 1t means to my
children. said Mrs. Reiner in Ger
man, lit breaks my heart. Could
they not see that my husband was liv-
ing an honest decent, ambitious life?
The people of our church. St. Paul's
Lutheran, would have told them that.
Pastor J. p. Riedel would have said
good word
Edmond was in the government en-
ploy and after our marriage went To
Brunswick To work. We had mlsfor-
tune. | lost $50 600, which made me
poor. Then false charge was brought
against him. He was innocent, but
Re had no money and fed. If you
haven't money to defend yourself over
there you may as will fly. | loved
him and joined him here They fol-
lowed us and took him back. When
he went away We were living in a lit
tie house at No. 49 Ralph-st. was
left with John .aAi the prospect of an
other child. The good women OF our
German Lutheran Church of st. Paul
heard about my trouble and they got
me a room and customers for my en-
broidery | was Saxon, and all Saxon
ladies can embroider. Little Her.
bert came to join us. He had been
born after his father went to prison
and he did not see him till year
ago last October
Mother Worked For Him.
Il had hard time those years while
my husband served his sentence. but
worked till my fingers were tied up
In knots as you see now. | did it that
my boy John might be SO fine a lad
when his father came from his sen
tence that it would put heart into him
when you see the Pratt Institute
pin on his vest II means hours and
hours that toiled to get him to that
school. When he talks to you of cleo
,triclty ami machinery Ii Is the impulse
that ! gave him when my eyes burned
and my fingers were twisting with the
plying OF the needle. Well. his father
came straight back to America to find
us and protect us"