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Show BABE PRISONER BEHIND BARS OF Nl PRISON :Every Minute of Child's Life Except Four Days Spent in Auburn FATHER SENTENCED TO BE EXECUTED SOON Mother Serving Term of 20 Years for Aiding in Killing Man i N. B. A. Staff Spec ial AUBURN. N. Y.. Feb. jti A baby is a prisoner behind the high stonewalls stone-walls of Auburn penitentiary. EYery minute of this tiny girl's life 1 except four days hay been spent back of prison bars, i Only the mercy of a newly enacted I law saved her from the life-long stlg-j stlg-j ma of having been born In prison The only other merciful clrcum-, clrcum-, stance In Gloria u'Dell's life Ih that , her babyhood's Innocence shields her frum the knowledge of the tragedy , that clouds her life. J Baby Gloria Is In Auburn prison because be-cause her mother Is Imprisoned there. She Is i.'let - vi il. cooing, smiling. 1 Her hair is a soft drnvn that will surely sure-ly he golden. Her n;e Is five months. It's a double tragedy that impends' lover Baby Gloria the tragedy of yes-I jtcrdav and tho tragedy of tomorrow TK (.l Ol JTESTE11DA1 The tragedy of yesterday was the murder of Edward J. Knelp at Rochester. Ro-chester. The crime was committed by1 Baby Gloria's father and mother, Jas. 1 and Pearl O'Dell. They were frenzied I because Knelp, who had betrayed th?! 'girl-wife before her marriage to O'-l fliU. pursued h r oven after The" t iT"-Iriage. iT"-Iriage. The klllmn was brutal; O'Dell I was sentenced to death, his wife to 1-0 years' imprisonment-Baby imprisonment-Baby Gloria's father Is In the death- house at Sin Slni? On Feb. 28 the j court of appeals Is expected to hand down Its decision as to whether or not; he shall be electrocuted. Baby Gloria's 'mother must serve at least 12 years,' even If she Is given full credits for ."I'd hell.l '. ur HAGl iioi I 1310R1K V The tragedy of tomorrow Is a twofold two-fold tragedy In itself. First, the law demands that when i Baby Gloria Is two years old she must I" t i ! u I mm hei mot hi i "a a i to be committed lo the charity of relatives rela-tives or of the state unless the mother moth-er Is fr' d by oardon or uarole. Second, Baby Gloria will grow up under the Stigma that will attach Itself It-self to the daughter of the O'Dells unless immediate action be taken to tlillterate thl stigma as far as possible. pos-sible. Whatever hSY crime, the. laws of New York state never were intended to place Pearl O'Dell's motherhood on the rack of public punishment. Imprisonment, Im-prisonment, yes; but to be tortured by having her child taken from her. no! This Is the mental torture Pearl O'Dell has lived throueh every hour since her baby was born Is lUIng through today and tonUrbi BORN IN Mi u IIORPTI M Baby Gloria was born jn Mercy hospital. hos-pital. Auburn, on the evening of lost Bept, 13 hi the morning of Sept. 18. when ahe was a few hours more than four days old, she and her mother were carried to the woman's prison- The baby was born outside a prison but under prison Suard The law required It. so besides the doctor and the nurs,? a guard appointed appoint-ed by the warden stood bv while Bab) Gloria was ushered Into the world. The date of the babv's birth was three months to a (lav after the date June 13. 1 920 originally set for the electrocution of the father These dates are a part of the legal records of Auburn prison ;ind the district dis-trict attorney's office at Rochester. ' Grim records of law and crime appear incongruous bearing the entry of tho baby like a beam of llirht iuo a dark place. She presented a new nroblem to Warden Edward '. Jenninas and Mrs. j M. H. Dal. v. the mitt ran. j "Imprisonment he re Is unfair to the child." rays the warden. "1 think she J ought to have her chance in life. The babv committed no crl HOPE OF PARDON "Pearl is a good mother.'' a Mrs. Daley. "Whatever wronc she has done, she Is trying to atone for by the love and caro she lavishes on her child. "They make such an appealing pit - lure in chapel IV. ul is there ewiy ! Sunday, holding her baby to her heart We cheer her up as much I we can with the hope of a pardon. I but " The hope of a pardon for Pear! O'Dell. or at least a parole, so that she would be able to take her bile with her from their prison, rests vHh Governor Nathan L. Miller The public demand for Punishment for the O'Dells has been softened by the birth of the babv the baby who, tho world now knows, was more than la dream-child when the O'Dells let their rage against Kneln master them- The opinion is growing in New York .state that Governor Miller should gi-Baby gi-Baby Gloria tho chanoo for future happiness hap-piness that the world owes every baby. This means, too. a chance for mother love and mother cute outside -of prison walls |