Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-06 | Page 1 | Childe Mother Cannot Assist Inquiry Much

Child Mother Cannot Assist Inquiry Much America's Most Youthful Parent Celebrates Eleventh Anniversary; Anni-versary; Says Birth of s" Babe Is Mystery . HARDIN. O, Aug. I fHy V. P.) "My baby's coming Is a mystery to ms." EUeabctb Irwin, "America's youngest mother," today "celebrated" her eleventh elev-enth r.lrthday by making that one reply to the grilling of county prosecutors seeking te determine the paternity ef ber nineteen-day-old baby. Steadfastly ths slrl-mother refused to lift even' one comer of the veil of mystery In which the whole sffalr la shrouded. T didn't know anything wss going to happen until I got sick snd then ths baby cams," Fllxabeth told Prosecutor Uppiacott. "He's the beat doll 1 ever had." The Rev. and Mrs. 1 W. Irwin, Elisabeth's Elis-abeth's stepfather and mother, urged authorities to exert every effort to penetrate the girl's childish Innocence. "I will demand prosecution of the man responsible for Elisabeth's plight." the atepfather declared. The girl waa fear teas aa attest! oris were hurled at her and talked freely for more than an hour te tha officers. She asserted repeatedly that sb had haw ao romances or boy fiienda.