| Show f 1 Parents No Teo Longer Hate Child Ask AsI for fOl Its Return Future May Be Decided by State Referendum A Denver Denver A wide state-wide referendum dum duet may Inny decide the future of ot Baby nally Erkenbeck A movement has been started to have P as fiS many as possible or of Colo Colo- Colorado's Colorados Colorado's rados rado's citizens express unofficially unofficially through a newspaper pool what should ho he done with the hate child chilli of Maynard and M Margaret r arct Erkenbeck now nn an Inmate of ot n a ahome home borne for dependent children On July 20 the father and moth moth- mother mother mother er of ot the tiny baby appeared In Den Denver's Denver's vers ver's famous Juvenile Ju court with on an amazing request They swore that they never wanted the child hated the sl sight ht of ot him and wanted the state to take care of ot him They Watt Want Wa t Freedom We e didn't want him we wc dont don't want him now the father a n regu employed laborer declared We want to be free Cree to go here and there Imagine judge how bow you'd feel lIving always alway In the presence of oC something you ou detested Judge George II IL Lerg of Golden sitting on the Juvenile bench In the of Judge Stanley Johnson committed the child to the lie state home with a stinging condemnation of the parents The fathers father's work took him to Oregon Oreon The mother remained In Denver Although free to go here and anel there she chose to remain near her baby bah Dally Daily she visits the thc state home watches her baby being fed and holds him In her arms Ill Id the same hour that my baby was taken from me I knew we had done wrong and that I could not live without him Mrs Irs Erkenbeck declared as ns she pleaded with state officials to restore her child to her and selfish We were impulsive e My ly husband isn't cruel We loved lored each ench other We had been together nil all the time since e our marriage When the thc baby was coming we didn't want him and when he came and Interfered with what we want want- wanted wanted ed cd to do we resented his presence presence- or thought we did dill Both Want Him Back Bach As a n child I 1 was brought up with Ith twelve brothers and sisters sister My father was a n shoe cobbler but mother and he hp were good to us and did everything er e they could for us At twelve twel I 1 went out to make male my myown myown myown own living Ing nursing babies dren children children That's all allI allI I knew I 1 I wanted to be free and 1 I were happy as ns could be Then our baby came We hall had to change our ways So we wc did this awful thing The father too has made up his mind that he must have bave the baby back |
