SISTER FORGIVE I 1 A year old girl III a cell HER las mart stirring story of a wanton awl drunkard new lork herald I 1 was so young I 1 had no mother god forgot me and I 1 fell with folded hands and pretty faatu res gen aly u atu arned I 1 attl 0 annie lay among yel lw in a rough pine binn at the harlem hospital yesterday awaiting in the desol lite potter I 1 a field over what a doai feet bad come to this end ing I 1 all the gaudy frippery which hung about the girl when she drank her death draught the night before was gone and she lay in her rude shroud like some fair statue her ga is bening golden hair failing all about the softly rounded shoulders F fifteen years old and died in a cell yes and died a drunkard wanton and suicide it was cold on tuesday night there was something in the wind that gnawed the very marrow and and made pedestrians shudder detective erskine had just stepped out of the cosy station house in the street and stood whistling a merry abrou the steps when a 9 irl staggered along the sidewalk she seemed ta be anxious to attract attention and the detec tive took her into the station she was petite in figure aud when she raised her veil sergeant sattie saw a handsome face anci a pair itji bright blue eyes the girl wore a short blue gown trimmed with white lace and not the sort of garments ladies usually wear in the street A large ruffle of lace was about her neck and black silk 8 cockings toc kings rose teacy slippers when the girl was questioned she laughed and said site intended to poison herself she was drunk and snapped her fingers gaily dr D r man rud erskine sear cheil the little prisoner and found among other thi lii u comb three towels a pair of stock angs and a phial of some dark 4 VU lat ich smelled like oil of tay going to your self eh the sergeant turnell the phial between his thumb and forefinger as be jerked out the question annie for it was she smiled as she her bead within a min ute or two ane was in tue back room smoking a ci garette and little gray choul into the weather beaten faces of the two giants in blue who lolled beside her oh I 1 want some paper cried the girl suddenly something down get me a sheet of paper for the take of again she burdt into laughter and blew a wreath of cigarette ci garett e 6 moke into tile air watching the wavion circle till it broke I 1 get me it sheet of paper the sheet was given to her and she wrote in trembling letters this message aly forgive me I 1 pray your unhappy sister the dis treet she is about to cause you FROM ANNIE when annie was sent to her cell sergeant suttie warned the door man to watch her narrowly f r tim r e ason that elie had threatened suicide once in the cell annie laughed and poked fun at the door man 1 I ive got a bottle here and im going to drink poison ilbe chirped I nonsense said the doorman here the girl rattled the tin cup which was placed in her cell and chattered merrily for a while ah I 1 now ive found it she cried at last ad down it goes the doorman saw her the cup to her lips while rile smiled at him with her ayea ile dashed across the corridor un looked the door struck the up raised band and sent the cu ing against the wall its too late said the child tri as she smacked ber lips mccormack know at once from smell that the girl bad swa ithe lowed carlovic car lolic acid up stair sin a jiffy and laid her 1 ob n table an ambulance was sent for and in the meantime hot water and mustard was freely poured down annie s throat ton latel the white lips of the dying girl anoy dr franklin ad dr walsh of the or rived they had lo 10 send for tl stor pump and worked despur a to save tile young life 1 I t was uel cs annie was hurried to the hospital hol pital and word was sent to the residence of her father and eister at no east hattie came to she kissed the face of tile child and u rew the damp tresses dofher hair through her fin gore at ten it was all over she said she would come home again on christmas eve and bring a christmas tree alaid bilatti e 11 and she has about till she mealier met lier end drink did this she was only fifteen years old but she was a drunkard annie tAir wis it new york girl she was pretty an natured ana of a street disposition until she was ten years old the child went to the school attached to the german church in eighty first then she stayed at home helping her sister hattie to sew her mother was dead and her father was a rough honest carpen ter I 1 who worked bird t 0 support ha houlf W I 1 1 a lira a ill one lay t I 1 10 1 eara ago an nie tris called into t 1 11 of is youtie married woman in the hond and offered R temporary tem its housemaid the child gladly accepted the coffier it was this woman who tau g t tier to drink beer soon annie became azcui to daily carousals all with out the knowledge of her father the girl became wayward and strayed nebout the streets her father beut her to the ju venile acty lum here she remained for over a year when annie was released she was n little than fourteen years old she went back at nobce to her old habits and last may her father had her committed to the house of hercy site was released troll abis institution in october ando range to say her fat ther got non t ce tile first time he rea lazed what bad happened was when he heart tit at his little daughter w a 3 wall dering about the streets again five weeks ago captain hooker raided mrs ip hoube at no baat street and little annie was among the inmates when the girl got out of this trouble she called oil her sister tapa wants you to calve bome dear Annio said hattie come home antl be n good girl ill come home tonight to night or ill come home on christmas eve and bring a tree replied annie but blattie never saw her again until sho looked upon her its she lay dying in the hospital it was clear that the girl had been put out of some house and had bought the as a last resort rather than go home A herall reporter called at mrs johnsons house in street last night after an ominous rattling of chains and shooting of bolts the door swung open and a demure faced y coulig woman ushered reporter into a shabby little parlor where a girl in striped stockings stage slippers ind a lurid hand inide blush tossed herself into an a chair and winked coquettishly wh yell the reporter told the story of annies death the demure toung women who turned out to he johnson raised her ye brows and the girl in striped laughed till her sides a ched iso annies dead well belil deaden Dea deh she been here for days and days she loveal the bottle too much she was here last mouth for about a week and the police raided ua ar ml it things so air A bile after that I 1 na annie she said she bid no father or snot ber lies all lies af course all the girls lie hal hill hal roared the girl w ith the striped rigs well I 1 turned ananie out I ila iila hal bal shut up you I 1 turned her out two weeks ago she came to me on a cold night she was shivering aad begged nie for gods F ake to give her shelter I 1 took her in but she drank so much that in two lays I 1 had to turn her out fl aill 4 4 1 I I 7 YI did abe say anything 9 yea ehe brot e a note asking to be forgiven hol halbak hal in striped stockings was of T again and her mistress joined in the in er ariment and where have they got her the girl is lying in a pine box at the harlem hospital she will be buried in the potters field air family is lou poor to pay for a grave that was the culminating J oke the laughing girl hid her face in her hands she stopped giggling and turned her face away aben she looked at the reporter again her eyes were I 1 ul I 1 of tears only fifteen years olal poor little its best perhaps rile died so young sa a aa a a ay popl screamed mrs johnson up a ali glit of stairs come down and bear tile n aws L venerable waite baided man hobbled into the room ilia hard shrewd eyes winked while lie is bened to the tragic tale oh well lie mumbled as be drew his sleeve across his chin she never fruited us never in the 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