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KaGzwB&mms!m&Bwmemmm Goff, to -whom -the child's, stricken, mother had appealed. Justice Goff has only paroled Her! "We must make this fight for the sake of precedent," says the society in explaining its action. "If we let that girl out we never can keep a girl locked up anywhere!" "Samuel Jacobson, the man re sponsible for my daughter's condi tion, offered to marry her. But Jus tice Gdff refused to permit the mar riage to take place because, he said, my home. I want .you ,to seej$j clean it is, how well I keep it Why, everything-here is put m order before I go out to my day's work!" ' "With sorrowful pride Mrsur tha led me through the" seven room her family occupies at 638 Herkimer st, Brooklyn, and I observed the Spot less white curtains, the weH-sept carpets, the carefully dustedjgold framed pictures, the cherishedorlc-a-brac accumulated from Christinas to Christmas, from birthday to "Hrfflt lpHBpMp -w-jp JACOB50N j cj -MURTHA This is the fond mother whose daughter is barred from her arms and home, though she weeps the hours away. - the man could not support her. I didn't expect Jacobson to do that. I am able to care for her and her baby, and my son is willing to help his sis ter. All we wanted was that my ba by's baby should not come into the .world without a name and that the double burden of shame should be lifted from the shoulders of a little chlH unable to bear It! "Let rue tell you bow this thing happened. But first let me show you This is the seducer who, thbSgh willing to marry Marguerita Murtha, is forbidden-the chance to right-his wrong by a New York court V1 day by a large family. "The society's agent reported to the court.that my homawas unfit for Marguerite," Mrs, Murtha satd. "Why? You go ask any one of my neighbors what kind of woman liam. Go into any other neighborhood where I have lived. I am not afraid that any woman who has ever known me will say that I am not a good mother, a hard-working woman. It was all the result of my having to ttfcUHMHtftfifliMltMitoMi