Girl’s Yearning for Mother

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1921, Page 4

Girl’s Yearning for Mother

NEW YORK, May 29. A touching story of a girl s childhood dreams of her lost mother was related at the Mount- Vernon police, court yesterday. when a fashionably dressed gu l who said she was 22, was charged with

vagrancy. She told the court she was the daughter of a wealthy retired stockbroker, John Davis. Her parents separated 16 years ago by deed which o-avc the father custody of the little girl, the only child of the marriage. She was sent to live with an aunt m a distant State, V "'hom she was brought up and educated in surroundings of luxury. Throughout 'these yeWrs ttlie girl never ceased to yearn for her niothoj. and a year ago, when she returned-to live with her father in New York, she paid a detective agency out of her allowance to find her mother’s whereabouts

A month ago the detectives were successful. The girl went to a. dingy lodging house in New York City and found her mother living there. She did not recognise her daughter till the latter embraced her, crying, “Mother, at last- I have found you.” The girl returned to her father and asked permission to live with her mother, which Air Davis refused. He loft for Europe next- day. The girl thereupon left- home and went to her mother. The latter wa-s unable to support her daughter, who was obliged to look for work. Failing to find any and not wishing to be a burden on her mother, slip determined not to return to her father, and was wandering in the streets penniless when she was taken into custody. She was eventually persuaded to return to her aunt.