The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-18
Ry CARL D. GRoAT

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 New York, June 1s-UP)--The Faithful family traced to-day down the years of her last schooling and thereafter the changes they noted in their daughter, Starr, the beauti- full girl whose battered and partly drvSged body was cast ashore by the sea off Long Beach. l.. l., to furnish authorities with one of the greatest mysteries of years.
 The family attributes to 8 man, old enough to be her father, mal- treatment of the girl at the age of II and later a course which, they say. turned her from beautiful childhood to a young womanhood beset with many moods and warped appallingly. They have already given in an earlier summary the story of the girls statement to them that this man, respected in his com munity and trusted by the Faith fulls and many friends, had de- spoiled the child and cheated her of a happy youth.
 To-day's story, the family admits, is such that 1t might we'll call for the talents of the alienist to grasp fully.
 As the Faithfulls talked to-day they harked back to her second year in select private school in Lowell, Mass. They noticed that a subtle change came over her, which was accentuated throughout the later years. And these changes and moods were more than the mere ad- justment of adolescence, according to the Faithfulls.
 The girl took on a spirit of ex- cessive elf-consciousness and be- came "inordinately modest" From being a prize swimmer, she gave up going bathing. She would try to cover her feet and ankles with her skirts as she sat down, and she be- came extremely self conscious in the presence of men.
 She went away in the summer on vacation, the Faithfulls said, and was entertained by the man in question and his family. Often she went boating with him, but she re- lated that he never took boys along.
 In the fall, when Starr returned to her studies, Mrs Faithful said she noticed quite a change in the girl.
 "She was really different" Mrs Faithful said. "She began using rouge to excess, though she had never used 1t before, and she car ried a swagger stick. Sometimes there was a strange look in her eyes as though she had been taking dope"
 (The Faithfulls have said that they were told some years later by the daughter that the man in ques- ton had etherized Cor chloro- formed) her on occasion).
 Mrs Faithful noted that the girl, from being frank and confiding, be- came extremely reticent toward her ana that the maternal influence de- creased. She told Starr several times that she was acting so strangely" :,
 sNot at all; everything Is all right" Starr would answer.
 Her strangeness increased. She summed the company of young peo- pie. and seemed excitable. When the Faithfulls moved outside of Boston Starr, according to her mother, had a period when she seemed "bent on making herself as unattractive as possible" She re- fused to wear anything but knick- CTS. and once on her sister Fuckers birthday refused to go to the birth day party except in mems clothes. She borrowed a suit and wore It:
 "She seemed to have a horror Of being herself" her mother com mented.
 She had been from childhood friendly. free and easy with stan ley Faithful, but suddenly began to show restraint toward him. Sne insisted that her sister IucKer, should but on make up though Tucker was only IF years oio.
 The stepfather and mother pie tured Starr as trusting and idealis- tic-as believing that people could not be bad. And this spirit, they said. was her undoing. The man they accused of maltreatment i'm pressed her with the idea that ms attentions were right and "fatherly' according to the story she told in later years. But her questions at this particular period disclosed, Tn the light of later events, that she was having a debate with herself as to whether everything she was told by him was really right. But every. body according to Stanley Faithful praised the man whom they deemed trustworthy and friendly, and inn pressed the child with the idea that he was a fine man, kind to chlldren' and practically incapable or dolng anything but right.
 The girls memory" book Tn school. carried memorandum or trip she wrote she had taken With this man, listing hotels where they stopped en route.
 The Faithfulls explain that Mrs Faithful knew of certain journeys with the man in question, but ex- plained that his reputation was sucn that 1t never occurred to her that there might be other than a strictly fatherly interest in the girl.
 In her last year in finishing school Starr got more demerits--not TOT serious offenses-and showed a iack of interest in her school work' ac- cording to the Faithfulls. A cneck- up brought the report that she was mentally lazy and seemingly un- able to concentrate.
 When she returned for Christmas holidays, she expressed a desire ~ quit school, making the excuse thal inc food was not good, though tnis nroved to be a fabrication. Finally she. was permitted to leave school s few months ahead of her sched- uied graduation.
 The following summer found an accentuation of the girls strange moods. As time went on. the girl showed a fear of being alone with inc man whom she had apparently regarded hitherto as protector. She would insist that her sister Tucker he present if he visited the house.
 "i don't see why one shouldn't tell everything if there's something bad" she was quoted by her mother as telling this man once.
 "No. there's always boom eranK," he was quoted as answering.
 stanley Faithful one day sought to elicit from the girl the real req. son for her wanting to quit school