Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-04-16 | Page 1 | Papa must go Back to Family

PAPA mus r oo BACK TO FAMILY New YorK Man Fled When the Tenth Child Was Born, but Now He Has to j Return. SaL FRANCISCO, April 16. Under the operations of the law recently passed by the Legislature of New York, making it a felony for a father" to de- sert his minor children, Joseph Balha, a musician, left for the East today in the custody of Detective Sergeant Farley Far-ley o District Attorney Jerome's staff, to answer the charge of deserting his wife and ten children, the oldest of whoni is 11, and the youngest three months. Balha fled to this city shortly after the youngest child was born and was arrested at 117 Twenty-eighth street. He is 38 years old, and says that although al-though he made wages sufficient to sup- port the growing family, he wearied of the task and longed for freedom.