Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-02-07 | Page 3 | Effort to Prove Ruth Child Born in Prison Fails

Effort to Prove Ruth Child Born in Prison Fails ROCHESTER N. N Y F Feb b. b 7 AP APAn APAn An effort to establish claims that Babe Ruths Ruth's mystery child is tb the born born on-born daughter of l p Pearl arl Odell has been defeated in supreme court Basing their petition on similarIty or of pIctures pf of Dorothy Helen Ruth and the fact that the late Mrs l Ruth referred to Dorothy Helen as la IsIa rio rie Harrington in her will George B. B Arnold and hIs wife sought a writ to compel Edg Edgar r Jennings of Auburn prIson to disclose the guardianship of the child born in prIson September 13 1920 to Mrs 1 Odell Odeli The couple represented themselves as step grandparents o of the child Justice Edwin Smith denied the tho writ on the ground that they had no legal standing In court regarding the guardianship of the child Mrs Odell Odeli is serving a sentence of twenty years to life lIe for complicity with her husband James In the murder of Edward Kneip eight years ago wis as convicted of murder in the first degree and exe- exe Under the l law the child born in prison was Js P- P its mother two years then placed out for tion The Arnold Arnolds In an affidavIt de de- dared that the tho Ruth child Is Mildred Mil Mil- dred Glorie Odell The fact the child known as Dorothy Dorethy Helen Ruth was a foster child of the Ruths was disclosed In Mrs Ruths Ruth's will under which an estate estimated at was left for her but the document gave no hint as to the parentage of th the merely saYing My beloved charge and ward at one time known mown as Marie Harrington In their affidavit the Arnold Arnolds said Harrington Harringto is the name of Irs Odell's sister I r i