Show Mother Sent To Jail After Branding Girl LAKEWOOD N J. J May 2 Lydia Reed a divorcee divorcee di di- today started serving a sentence of 30 days for brandl g gher her old earold daughter Esta with a hot poker Recorder Isaac Berkowitz imposed the sentence The daughter is in a hospital sUffering from burns on her back arid and legs In her cell the former wife of 4 Samuel Reed of of Seaside Heights N. N J. J declared she see seewhy seewhy why all the fuss fuss' S' S was raised about her branding Esta Esla She dId it to scare the child out of bad habits she insisted I 1 trIed everything she said Nothing else would work So I tried d this I didn't mean to hurt her That is the way my mother taught roe me when I 1 was little |