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Show MINISTERS THEME Woman, OS On Vamps and SnieKS, t son Girl May Be Over Sixteen er to death when e Pint objecte to the company and hours her daugn ter was keeping. Miss Ellingson revealed after Jr arrest in a rooming house here forty eight hours-after the footing, that slfe had taken $45 f-m the room " which she killed her mother and danc ed and drank at a party on the even ing following the killing. The slaying of Mrs. Elhngson by her daughter was the subject of much comment from the pulpits of the various var-ious churches. Some of the most prominent pastors in the city dwelt at length on the episode. All of the discussion stressed the need of more solidarity in the home and society. Up until Sunday the gul's age was accepted at 16. Word received from Lon Angeles, however, set the authorities off on a new angle of investigation. Mrs. Erie A. Bloom, who claimed to have had the care of Dorothy in December, 1912 and January 1916, notified the police here, they said, that she was. positive that her former charge was now more than 16 years old. "She was 5 years at the very least when she was with us." Mrs. Bloom is reported to have said. "She might even have been 6." In response to this development, Dorothy said, that she would be 11 next April. She said her father was going to send East for her birth certificate., cer-tificate., Meanwhile the police announced an-nounced that if it were developed that the girl is 18 she could be held liable to the death penalty instead of imprisonment im-prisonment for life, although a woman wo-man has never been subjected to capital cap-ital nunishment in California. ' Frank J. Egan, public defender, retained re-tained by the girl, announced that the defense will be based on mental irresponsibility ir-responsibility since childhood. No scientific witnesses or alienists will be employed, however. Visitors, some merely curious, others oth-ers there to offer consolation called at the city prison. Among them were Earle, the brother and Joseph Ellingson, the father, both of whom at first refused to have anything to do with the case. They have become reconciled with Dorothy and are making mak-ing every effort to aid her. |
