Show Josephs Joseph's Mother Departing for the East Contends Son Was Not in in His Right Right- Mind When He Disappeared With Banks Bank's Funds I TOO TOft GOOD TO ME SHE ASSERTS TO COMMIT CRIMES CRIME I S Says ys That When He Recovers Recovers Recovers Re- Re covers Senses He Will Return and Explain His Absence Mrs David Joseph mother of the missing Milton D. D Joseph toda today departed departed departed de de- de- de parted for Boston Mass where she be will join relatives Her eyes swollen and tearful Mrs Joseph declared that sho 1 o had n xo 1 0 o lovo love for Salt SaiL Lako Lake City Ruined Her Hor KorSon Son Little did I r ever think that Salt SaIt Lake City would do to me what it I has said Mrs Joseph today loday It has has' taken my husband and what whit is worse it has ruined my ray son SOD It bas has taken a a. a name honored and revered in tho the South and in St. St t. t Louis Lonis and dragged it through tho thc filth filthy mire of it its streets It has taken the tho clean heart henrt of a n boy who never in his life even thought of doing Wron wrong and because of a 3 temporary doran do- do ran emont has condemned him for forever yer It It- It has more than it n-ined-it lined it has bas killed Like the jackals of of tho the forest it h has s gloried in its work I can never aa again ajain n Jive here herc H And n do the people really think that my son ion did Can Cnn they imagine that a boy of his hie caliber one who through his life has hu fo loved ed ed and cared for his hii mother ono one who would not nott t think ink of ot leaving her ber without W kissing her wrinkled face and smilingly saying ying Ill not be lo long g moU mother or o ono one o wh who has I been clean ca and po spotless and helpful ul through Hf e sf steal p paltry paltry pal pal- l- l try try- i sum of if money God forbid that they think that He He Ho w was as s not ot in Ia his right mind Ho He could not have been boon He Ho did not steal H He could not steal Before mis occurrence Milton would sit tilt In my room and with ith his hand band on the back of his niB would say Ill Mother my head pains mo me so 80 Cant Can't you do anything for itt iU Is there any doubt but that ho was temporarily temporarily tem tern deranged Says Saya Idea Ridiculous The liTho idea that ho could possibly nave have the base baso instinct of the criminal is is ridiculous It is b beyond ond conception Do I not know Am I not Lis mother I Tell Ten mo me is there thero anyone in iii this wide wide world who knows know a man better than his own There Thore cannot be Therefore I insist that I know my boy and I 1 know that ho he was not in his right mind when ho he committed this awful crime crime If he would on only write me if ho he would on only communicate in some possible manner mannor how happy I would ee beCan oe be t Can Can you imagine a boy who when ho went running off to school in old St. St Louie Louis growing g- g ga a brid bridge e half way each morning and then thou running full speed back to kiss his mother goodbye can cnn you imagine a 8 boy boJ- who in his bis youth thought always of the comfort comfortI I lof of his mother and in his lila manhood declared de do- dared to his friends r Well I have one ons true sweetheart anyway and aDd that is IB mother doin doing such euch a tl thing in f Can you y-ou imagine a boy of that typo in tn trouble avoiding a the one person to whom h ho he would turn if jf ho he were in his right mind No it cannot be bo I will win not believe thai that Milton knows what ho he has done done he he does docs not understand ho is out of ot his mind Said it Couldn't Be True The liTho stenographer who has been with him for ten years came to me mo after Milton was wa gone and crying laid nid her I head in my lap ap and said it was not true truo it could not be bo true The man who kept his horse borso when hen ho bo was a i little boy in St. St Louis groveled Rn and 1 rolled roBed on the stable floor when he left tho the old home and kissed that horses horse's I Inose nose Milton had bad kissed it There Thero I is not a banker or business man in ill Salt Lake Lako City who docs does not think that Milton Joseph is the cleanest most honest and most upright man in all the business circle And would that man steal mone money if he were in his right mind Never NeverlI I HI cannot keep up TIp long tong My heart has failed me and the doctors say ear that I must return to the lower climate Here I 1 am alone alono In Boston I ha have my relatives I shall shan live livo with them in inthe m the one hope that Milton will some day dav write to me and como come to mo me I shell shall die with the last sweet remembrance of his dear words Worde Well I Ive I've c got ono one true truo sweetheart anyway and that's mother He will a always ways ha have e her she sho will dio din lo in loving him |