Milford chronicle., 1915-06-04
WANTED-A MOTHER.

Ayoung girl, child in years, is held at
the Philadelphia Hospital on charge of
murder. Though not quite seventeen,
she will soon become a mother. The
father Of her unborn babe was the victim
OF the shot she fired two weeks ago
when iouted and spurned by her betrayer.
Though murder must not be condoned, ,
the story of Ida Riehl is one to touch the
hearts Of all right-thinking people, max
ing them 60 out in compassion to the
motherless girl who is in such a terrible
plight and realize the pity of it.
The simple story ofa girlish confidence
1,euayed by young man to- whom this
l!tIe mother" of the two younger
children her brother and sister, had
given her love, affects the tenderest of
human emotions. IT was always a good
snl before this, p" she whispered after her
arrest The statement made by her grief
suicEen father confirms this tremulous
ny Oh pathos. After her mothers death
" seems to have exercised reasonable
SaIe IN allowing his child as much free
loll IN her amusements as was consistent
sln propuety. Her acquaintance with
leI oetrayer was not surreptitious, but
Eale aoout naturally when she visited his
'aIIer dairy as a customer.
deceived under the promise of mar
lage' the girl believed that the young |
lan she loved would fulfill his obliga-
III 70 make her his lawful wife. Re-
gulsed from time to time, she became
5,sPeIate, as maternity approached, and
olu Inc truth to her father. His efforts
oOtain justice for his daughter from
II 0etrayer and his family were unavail-
men came an appeal, to the law,
Fnlch would doubtless have resulted in
eSun'ary reparation.
oI. the sufferer was a child in a desper-
y situation. Goethe, in Faust, =" with
aOAesoi S.s genius has powerfully portrayed
suuerlngs OF Marguerite under SINH
l. .et.,g,1llnstances. l.,,l Deserted BY her lover.
ro.sS sun believing in him, Ida Rieh1, like
aisuerlte, shuddered under the mock
~ y s,anCes .s OF the people who knew her,
summed them and avoided appear
~ public But the public knew of
suaine, because she had gone into a
oTr S''iS'e .S court and told the pitiful
nr;. Alone in the seclusion of her
T. s, rearing to encounter the eyes of
,o.as .nasSlghoors, though free from the re-
oSass [ooSaS OF her forgiving father, she
soEo5 Sou5q /. on the perfdy of her lover and
I 1Su M. iorward with unspeakable fear to
In,a,.i IN Of her poor nanieless babe.
ssiila E,as aon nation can but partly help one to
iise ,Le. 'ne terror of heartbroken child
bicb ia. most deplorable predicament in
bis,a. girl can find herself. 1t was a
Ill.,. iate that placed in her hands her
Sei1ss a revolver when she went to make
klieva' .ra' d appeal to her betrayer. Few will
fent;o'l r,S mat she could have formed anv
1 ,,Ua loUaI 70 kill or even injure the man
4on90 oU'ea, Notwithstanding the great
Drv vs. SroS, ne had inflicted on her. Her
tibl wTald rIi show that he received her
no or rsa.g peaaing with contumely. There
kuk irSon $50" to disbelieve her, she is so
'rbat sgenuous and evidently truthful.
ten sSa que knew what she was doing
|sed shot him is hardly to be be.
sror ot tn[Looding over her wrongs, in
|namsohine ~ ner neighbors, filed with the
'O'e fears that seize a girl who