Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-08
IDA RIEHL DESCRIBES
HOW BETRAYER'S ACTS
MADE HER FEAR HIM
Slayer of Faithless Lover
Tells Story of His Eva
sions When She and Her
Relatives Sought to Have
Him Marry Her.
"a RLERL,s oWN sToRY


and saddied NTH the cares Of household
ard the bringing ap Of her too vounO
brothers, Ida Rishi. the Rensiuoton girl
tCho shot dotCn Edi0urd Hdupttuhrer on
May sR, Killed him because, she claims,
NJ tDopld not make good his promise TO
marry her, although she tgds TO become a
mother, Is only Just beginning 10 pdy the
penalty FOR her decd IN the jdH her bdby
toiii be born Soon after that u IS expected
the chiid-mother toiH be brought TO trial
on the charge OF SECOND degree murder,
for tchich she Is nOU out on bail In tho
home Of her benefdctor. whose unequaied
charity has been the subject Of much
comment, the airi, toith the iHgeHuousneSs
and absence OF soif-c0nsciOusnesS so char
dcteristfc Of her, narrated the details
whioh led mp to the 0rin clipldr OF her
relationship NTH Hnuptfuhrer. The fol-
lot0iH0 is the second inStdument OF tho
story as she told "
BY IDA RIEHL
II took mo q whole week TO realize that
somehow I had done the most awful
thing a girl can do. I didn't know why
or what was the matter with me, but n
voice inside Of me kept saying, KIN
yourself, Ida, you had better kill your
self and end II ALL"
/ didn't see Ed much during that week
Maybe II was because I was too miser-
able to 60 out, Maybe he didn't come
around as much as usual. I don't know
Only, I felt that IL couldn't talk to some
one soon I'd 20 crazy ! looked at dad |
lots OF times and was almost ready to |
speak. to him about II all, but II seemed /
to me that he'd had enough trouble OF his |
own without me bothering him with mine. |
And something told me, too, that girls |
mother was about the only person she |
could 10 In n time 1ika this
And then one day Aunt Ella came
around from her house on Auburn street.
What's the matter Ida2' she said to
me sharply when I came In the room,
"You look sick"
told her l didn't know, and 1t was
Gods truth that I spoke then I didn't
know what the matter was, but told her
everything just as It happened! I'll never
forget the look OF her face when | told
her.
my God, child" she moaned. rocking
back and forth and wringing her hands,
''you don't know what you've done"
And then she cried as II her heart
would break,
COULDN'T THINK WHAT TO DO.
wouldn't have cared II she had beaten
me then wish she had. because may
be then l could have forgotten the awful
in my head. | couldn't think
what to do for the burning pain in my
head.
I'VE mustn't tell your father" Aunt I
Ella said, when she had stopped crying,
1T might kill him. We've got to see Ed
light away"
And then my aunt and | went down
% the dairy to see Ed. | guess when he
anne out he must have known that some
hing was the matter when he saw Aunt ..
ella. for he looked kind OF worried. +.
My aunt was angry with him, but she ,,
idnt let him know il at first. :
Ed she said, you've got to marry !,
,dA right away and give her name" ;
FOR the first time for n week I felt =
iappy again. / thought II was married !
o I'D everything would come alb right v
gain. S.3- =
hut somehow Ed was changed. He h
Iidn't seem to love me as much as he a
lad said he did, He didn't even look at b
ne or talk TO me- but he told Aunt Ella
70 couldn't get married because he wasn't -
10 enough. | couldn't understand his s.
lying TINS because am sure heard o
Us rather say once that he was 81
Aunt Ella said 1t didn't make any diff h
erence-that II he was old enough TO be n
ne rather OF my baby he was old enough n
Q marry me, and II he wasn't man o
nough to do II himself his father would "a
ave TO be told and something would have /
be done to make him. tc
HER LOVER ASKED DELAY. n
II wouldn't want anybody to know HI
lis he told her; you give Ida and me
week or so to talk matters over and k
zen zen ! guess wen come 10 some sort OF
Aunt Ella said the only kind OF UNDER ia