Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-09
Rr IDA RIEHL

ny ADA ANAAIAAb
Ed got out on 1900 bail. We had a
meeting after that In his lawyers office,
and both his lawyer and the one my
father had engaged advised marriage.
MY lawyer said II would be best for me
and his lawyer said It would be best for
him.
But stlli Ed and his father held back.
Ihen they offered Dad money think
u was something like $3.50 or $500 Some
now or other they figured It out accord
Ing to law that this is all a man has to
pay In a case like mine
Dad got furious The idea of tho
Huptfuhrers trying to buy me off with
money made him almost sick He told
tnem no wasn't a white SLAYER. to sell
t nls nttle slrl for so much cash. and 50
the meeting broke up.
After that Ed went around the streets
talking smart about no one being able
TO keep him in jail. Several people who
came into the store told me how he was
talking.
BoAsTED TO HIS FRIENDS.
Ihat wasn't the worst OF It. He brag.
sed ABOUT what he had done to me too
knew this, because the bows on the
corners would say things as / went by
tnat would make me hang my head for
sname' tried not to go out unless l
mad TO, and then I'd suffer aEonIes won
me next. sot's " say 10
Dad went down after the meeting in
tne lawyers office to talk to Eds mother.
he thought that, being a woman. she |
misht see my way of things. But she |
toiu DAD she didn't want Ed to marry |
any one-least OF all. me. She said she |
uIdh think anything like that would
come into her family. She said size had
raised her family and raised It right.
Dad said lie didn't think anything like ~
would come into his family. either and
that ne had tried to raise his right too
She seemed TO think that had done Mi
any. uone
Things got worse. Every time my aunt
x my father would sec Ed he'd promise
them that he'd marry me soon, ana everv
time he'd sec me by myself he'd 20 back
on his word and say he was never going
% marry me. | was almost crazy wonder.
ing what l was going to do.
And then on Saturday when / hadn't
seen I'D FOR long time / went out 10
look TOT him. ! thought II took Dads
pistol along / might be able to scare
MIN little 1 went TO his house and
asked his little brother where he was,
he said Ed was working on the wagon
Il the depot.
WHERE is ED7"
"S'' uONh 70 Nhe depot at Sd and I
5erks streets It was raining and
ltdn't have any umbrella. I'd wasp't ,
mere ana so | waited for him. Somehow ,
selt II l could only talk and plead win
I'm a little | might get him 10 marry ;
ne. But Ed wasn't there I walked baci,
. MS house and when I got to the dairy :
.ouis Fertig was standing there TnsIrad 4
I'm where Ed was. He said, "Around tha g
orner asked him please to tail EJ
lat Ida wanted to speak to him.
le he said: S "a" [
Look here, Ida, I don't want Won N r
1.is 20 arouhd mere bothering me. because
with you" ~ :
ne seemed to mean what he said and T
iought my heart would break
But Ed. l begged him, you ara M,
,ins nn 70 make me bear this disgrace
He said he didn't care who bora q h,,.
az he was through. / was iust about
reg him some more when he turnsJ
ID" s"" red
.da Rlehl broke on here. overeom. a.
Iecohecton OF the awful climax thai
minated in the death OF Edu,a,S
iupuuhrer about whom the little Girl
ys she still thinks with affectfor -
sid not continue her story. '''e
ne remembrance OF her flight fror,
SPOT where she last talked with VA
. memory OF the pack Of men yUon,a,
Q children who chased after her iiirs
hsry wolves on the heels Of their
I ~ L9S me recollection of her trip TO
hospital where Hauptfuhrer Law dving
"a two gunshot wounds In his a abday,,n's ,.'s
. an the subsequent terrors OF her
est ana two appearances In the eo,,rt
m proved too much for her.
rushed by the fate that has overtaL.,
"a ana terror,strieken az the grim future
zen awaits her, she Is trying her bsst
respond 10 the advances made IA, tL
q people who are doing eyerytbine
their power to prepare her for re
Ole ordeal which awaits her m the
; when her baby win be horn ana
VIII pc called upon should the Grand
y 50 decide, 10 answer the accusatio,,
on which charge she is