Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 26 | Finds Child Dancer is Long Lost Baby

S DANCER IS LORe LOST BABY Father Claims Girl Whom Professor Is 15 Convicted of Having Put on Stage By The Sped News Service N NEW W YORK Dec Dee Muriel Munet 2 Muriel Hallock has been restored to her 14 years old her father through the prosecution by the he New York Society for the Prevention of 01 Cruelty to Children of 01 Prof prot Joseph Joseph Jo Joseph Jo- Jo seph Small a teacher of dancing using Last July Small was found young girls and a boy in in- ina a singing and dancing act at the Garden restaurant He lIe exhibited birth certificates indicating indicating old olds ing each child was over 16 years had found By the time that the society that Small was using the birth certificates cates rates of other older children he had on the road with his show gone He had coached the children two of I whom were his own to respond to the the l I I assumed names llames and how to reply to o questions The society traced him hi this to Detroit and St. St Louis and back t to this city Then one of ot the children Muriel Hallock was found and through h her herthe r the others Lauretta OLeary O'Leary Pauline Paulino Stor Storis Storta 3 and Mary Crompton all about 14 or 15 years old The children told of attending a Brooklyn dancing school where Small was a teacher and of how after he had given them private lessons in singing and dancing and promised them vaudeville vaudeville vaude vaude- ville engagements he had formed his I company When the fact came out that I Muriel 1 Hallock in charge of the Childrens Children's Childrens Children's Children's Childrens Chil Chil- drens dren's society was wa-S wasa a witness against Small her father who had been separated separated sep sep- from her mother for years ap appeared appeared appeared ap- ap and claimed her Little Muriel Murie had almost forgotten h him m Her mother had remarried and her father fattier had bad lo loST trace of her He immediately arranged to have her placed in iii his custody custod Small pleaded guilty and must pay a fine of ot or orI I serve twenty days in jail