New-York tribune., 1918-03-11

room with a nice. clean German lady
The room is clean with running water
and gas light. 1t costs 81 a week
VIII look for work Monday. Your low.
ing son, paul"
That's just little note" said his
mother yesterday, "but does it SOUND
like boy who was trying to cat away
from his home and deceive his mother
And after that the letters came regu
larry, three and four times week"
The packet bears out Mrs Barren
burgs statement. On December 81
Paul was able to announce that he hac
secured work-with the Adams Express
Company at 81 week. ~ just about
make both ends meet" he wrote, but
spoke cheerily OF his general condition
I'm getting homesick, though" he
wound up, "and wish l was back"
"A week later, this letter having
eIlcited an anxious response from Mrs
Barenburg, he was writing in thor
ough!y encouraging tone.
The work on the railroad is not
dangerous work at ALL" he assured
her. "All l have to do is load anc
unload the mail and baggage from the
! trains at Broad Street Station. Please
don't worry, mother! am not home.
sick any more" And he tells her OF
-ow he fills his time off, and of trips
to the Young Mems Christian Associa
ton, finishing with Write soon
mother. but don't send me any money
as | don't need it,"
Sends Birthday Present
On Mrs. Barenburg's birthday SIS ar
rived from Paul's wages.
dearest mother" he wrote on this
occasion, "please excuse me for not
sending you birthday card, mother
They did not have any in the Y. M
{. A., and as | was on the day shift !
could not 60 to Penn's Grove. am
sending you $5 mother dear, as | do
not know of anything you need and !
don't know how to buy women's clothes
a-tail | am sorry payday did not come
on Friday so YOU could have got this on
Saturday. | have not forgotten my lit
tie mother at home. and when I come
home am going to have something for
her 1t will soon be time to go swim
ming here. The Delaware Is very
handy"-the rest is several pages of
average healthy boy prattle.
And that" repeats his mother, ais
the boy they would say turned into this
hardened criminal overnight. They
turn he didn't come home for four days.
But it wasn't badness, as they trv to
make out, that caused that It was
shame. He didn't have the money he
had set his heart on bringing back with
hlm-he didn't have any money, and
his clothes were ragged. At least, poor
boy, he wanted to be able to say he had
job. When he did finally come he
took me in his arms and put hls head
down on my shoulder and sobbcd and
sobbed.
"And Immediately he returned he set
cut looking for work. That was how he
met this Hughes Davis boy, who got
him into this robbery and murder bust
ness. He had known Hughes Davis
when he went to school But Davis
promised to get him job. Paul saw
him and came under his influence in
this way, and then-thcn--it hap
pened."
Many others, quite disinterested peo-
pie, are of Mrs. Barenburg's mind.
Vida Millholland recently visited the
boy where he is waiting in the death
house at Sing Sing, and brought bach,
most encouraging reports of him from
the warden. Mrs. Thomas w. Lloyd, a
brooklyn clubwoman, has interested
herself extensively in the case.
On March Id mass meeting to aid
Mrs Mrs. Barenburg's fight is to be held at
the Brooklyn Woman's Club. DR..
George W. Kirchwey, former warden of
Sing Sing, and other prominent people
will plead for the boy on this occasion.