Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-05
IDA RIEHL UVLOCKS HER
LIPS AND IN HESITATTVG
VOICE GIVES HER STORY
Assured That Her Place of
Refuge Will Not Be Re-
vealed, Girl Who Faces
Murder Charge Tells of
Love Tragedy.

Ida Rlehl has told the EVENING
LEDGER the story, in all its distressing
details. of her acquaintance and relation
ship with Edward Hauptfuhrer.
For the first time since May %, the
night of the tragedy, when the little
Kensington girl shot down the man who
refused to marry her and give her un-
born child a name, she unlocked her lips.
Except for fragmentary utterances, no
narrative has heretofore come from Ida
With pitful simplicity she recounted
the events that eliminated in an act
which, in the eyes of the law, make her
a murderess, but which simultaneously
gained for her the sympathy OF all who
read her story.
Under the promise that the name of
her good angel nor the address of her
refuge would be revealed, the girl
gave her story to an EVENING LEDGER
representative. With choking voice and
tear-hlled eyes. she told how she, an In
nocent little girl to whom all the dan
gers of the world were a closed book
met Ed Hauptfuhrer. young, handsome
well-dressed. with the free use OF his
fathers automobile and plenty OF money
to spend
She told how he sought her out and
how he, with whom almost any girl
could have become infactuated, singled
out her a poor girl of unpretentlous
origin and, flattering her with his atten-
tlons, made ardent love to her and then,
with the promises of marriage hot on
his lips, deceived and refused to marry
her.
out in a nearby suburb Of the city
Ida Is being sheltered by a childless
Nuh
sue their devious phllanthropies in so
circumspect way would long ago have
had their names proclaimed abroad.
What they are doing for this girl in her
greatest hour of need reads like fairy
story. And 1t is their intention never to
be known in the case.
In the meantime, kind treatment has
done it's work. It's a different Ida Riehl
who. with the light of hope In her eyes
and buoyant tread to her STEP comes to
the door TO meet you, from the bowed,
desolate little figure who sat with scared
white face and staring desperate eyes in
the crowded courtroom last week. Life
holds some promise when good people
treat you like one OF them instead OF as
a parlah cast from the pale of respecta-
billty.
To all the inmates of the house Ida
Riehl Is a married woman, Mrs -,
sister-in-law OF her good angel. The SER
wants know her as Mrs, --, and people
who come there know her by no other
name. She is merely a little girl who
married very, very early In life and who
because of some recent trouble, needs rest
and attention, 1t is no unusual thing Tor
this benign couple to do similar acts OF
kindness; therefore, It Is no unusual thing
for Mrs. --- to be staying there
IDAs FATHER DAILY VISITOR.
Fresh country air coed food and the
assurance that everything in the world
will be done for her have brought the
roses back to her cheeks She Is per-
mitted TO participate in a few OF the
household duties. II she so desires just
as any other "at home" visitor would be
allowed 70 do. Her father comes to see
her daily, and her little brothers. too.
When she gets little homesick Tor them
she goes to the telephone for reassuf-
ances Of their affection.
The good people with whom she Is hY-
ing are willing to keep her Infinitely
They have taken the depressing mourning
clothes away from her and in her DARK
tailored skirt and soft white waist, her
big gray eyes wide with neW-tound
hope, she looks even younger thah the
l7-year-old child she is.
Like a faithful dog vino has been ne-
friended. her glance follows every move
OF her benefcctor. Ida doubtless placed
lust 6ucn an lnpllclt rust ~
Hauptfuhrer. She is OF the trusting KIND
Her ingenuousness ana unsophistieation
are so patent that one wonders u TINS
can be the child who took a pistol from
her fathers house and went out 70 KIN
a man. But there Is no doubt on that
score. She did It, and on Monday, ou9
Of the fulness Of her heart ana because
of the wide sympathy that mas peeh
shown her, the girl viii unfold IN heF
oS,n words 20 the readers OF the EVEN
mo LEDGER the tragic tale OF her meet
ing with Edward Hauptfuhrer ana ths
swift rush Of events that lead up 70 the
awful shooting.
ONLY MEANT TO SCARE HIM
II took the gun to scare him" she said
shutting her eyes and living over once
moro the night OF May 2z- II nred ths
arst shot after he had spit AZ me ana 4
TAINTED me for my condition I don't re-
member any more after that except tnAt
/ ran away and fell 10 the ground ahoIs
a quarter OF a square away vita peeN
81 people close behind me, don't re-
member a thing until they took me 70
the hospital. where Ed vas dying.
must nave nred the second shot N
tranoe. / can't remember"
rhs dramatic events Of that memoFa9te
nishf are lndehbly Impressed on the sirfs
mind on Monday the complete story.
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