rroborated her mother's story that her |
|father, Benjamin Sachs, had struck Mrs. |
|Sachs. It was largely due to this |
|testimony that the decree was granted and |
|the custody of the child awarded to Mrs. |
|Sachs. |
| |
| Then the troubles of the girl began in |
|real earnest. She loved her mother dearly. |
|But her father, who had been a companion |
|to her as well as a parent, was equally |
|dear to her. |
| |
| Both parents pleaded with her. Mrs. |
|Sachs told Rissa she could not live |
|without her. The father told the girl, in |
|a conversation in a downtown hotel several |
|days ago, that he would disown her unless |
|she went to live with him. |
| |
| Every hour increased the perplexities of |
|the situation for the child. She could not |
|decide to give up either of her parents |
|for fear of offending the other. So she |
|sacrificed her own life and gave up both. |
| |
| Thursday evening, on returning from |
|school to the Sachs home at 4529 Racine |
|avenue, Rissa talked long and earnestly |
|with her mother. Then she retired to her |
|room, turned on the gas and, clothed, lay |
|down upon her bed to await death and |
|relief from troubles that have driven |
|older heads to despair. |
| |
| At the inquest yesterday afternoon the |
|grief-stricken mother told the story of |
|her daughter's difficulties. She said that |
|Rissa had declared she could not live if |
|compelled to give up either of her |
|parents, but added that she never had |
|believed it.--_Chicago Record-Herald._