The poor girl’s life history has been a sad…

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, the poor girl, without a friend or a helping hand upon whom to depend, was driven to desperation. As a dernier resort, on Saturday evening she entered a bawd house, hoping to earn sufficient money to take her back east. She spent but tv/o days under the contaminated roof. The poor girl’s life history has been a sad one, and her early demise will be a grievious blow to a poor but deserving mother. Her baby, taken from her under such peculiarly distress- ing circumstances, should it become known to her, will add poignancy to her grief. But God forbid that the gray hairs of an honored mother should be brought to grief, yet in humble sub- mission we bow the knee to the Omnipotent de- cree. From what can be learned of Jennie For- rest, we are prone to believe that the poor girl was striving to earn an honest livelihood, and to lay up money enough to take her back to Chicago, not far distant from the home of her childhood. She had been a married woman, but had parted from her husband something like five months ago. This separation, coupled with the loss of her only child, taken from her by her truant husband, tended to make the poor woman morose, and at times, desperate.