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Show AN ERRING DAUGHTER. A " mother's Sad Discovery and a Beautiful Girl's Waywardness. "Your two sisters are dead and you are the only daughter I have left, but I would rather you would be in the grave with your sisters than to continue doing what yon have done," was said by a sorrow-stricken sorrow-stricken mother yesterday, says the Butte Town Talk of Monday last. The speaker was a respectable middle-aged woman of Irish birth, and the remark was addressed address-ed to her erring daughter. She lives in the east and is a hard-working woman. Sarah, the last daughter, was always a little wild and has been absent from home for over a year and a half. Last J une she came to Butte. She wrote to her mother that she had found employment employ-ment in a photograph gallery and subsequent subse-quent letters told how finely she was doing. do-ing. Recently she wrote that she had left the gallery and was doing housework. The mother grew anxious about her and last week came to Butte to see her. A visit to the photographers resulted fruitlessly. fruit-lessly. They knew no girl of that name, i and no such girl had worked for them. From a number of negatives shown her she found one which she recognized as that of her lost daughter. She told her Btory to one of the policemen, and a visit to a house on Park street effected the girl's discovery. The latter was dressed in most fashionable attire, and when taken into the presence of her plainly clothed mother she boasted of her shame. The mother made every effort to win Sarah back, but in vain. She then decided de-cided to prefer against her the charge of vagrancy, but the daughter, fearing this, confessed her guilt and said she would do better if allowed her liberty. - She is only 16 years of age, although apparently 20, and she is of pronounced beauty of figure and face. She has decided on returning east with her niother," and quitting her life of shame. |