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Society Blamed for Girl's Tragic LifeBy CHUCK CHEATHAMChildren are not naturally bad •—but when they find themselves denied the love and affection they should receive at home they areShe was adopted from this home by the Meyer family and brought to Long Beach.The investigation disclosed, from talking to teachers andEdward p. (The Duke) Wellington was questioned last night by Los Angeles homicide squad officer* and Bnrbank jxv Ike In connection with the killing of Elizabeth Short, the “Black Dahlia’* of Long Beach. The “Duke” admitted living with Mils Martin In a Ventura boulevard motel.Fob(Why police ati did not i (Last confesse ing of Black I crele*. pi that nonTteciion tmsfib-neighbors, that the child was in “great need of care by some quiet j and understanding person.j “Mother is increasingly nervous j and Unreasonable with child.!(Continued on Pase 91(Intern flsked Dr noted psi give histhese fal hi* erplqBr DR.Noted Ft(Acme Telephoto)LYNN MARTIN’.quite apt to get themselves, aisd many others, into a sordid and tragic predicament, searching for that love.This was the opinion yesterday of Joseph M. (Joe) Kennick, head of the city’s juvenile bureau, after reading the juvenile record of Lynn Martin, 16. friend of the slain “Black Dahlia.”Lynn, or Norma Lee Meyer, was well known to local juvenile authorities and has a record of seven arrests in this city.At the present time she is being held by Los Angeles Juvenile authorities and officials are preparing to start court action against 10 male adults with whom; the girl told police she had been: intimate.’‘This poor, unfortunate girl is)just another sad example of a’ child who never had a chance,” j Kennick stated. “Read the record yourself and you won't be able to blame the child. You can blame many persons for her ruined life —ruined at 16 when most girls are still going to school—you may even blame yourself. You and I and society as a whole .are to blame. Not the girl.”Lynn Martin, as the girl herself prefers to be known, first came to the attention of juvenile authorities in . July 1943, when 1 neighbors reported that she was the victim of “an unfit home.” |A Bad Start [The thorough investigation; made by the department dis* j closed the girl’s earliest recollections'were of living with a half sister in Minnesota. The half sister was living with a drunken common-law husband. She believes she was 4 years of age then.Her half sister was continu-crysng, upset and nervous. n many occasions she attempted j to commit suicide, Lynn was res-1cued from this'while still 4 by a ' maternal aunt. jAt the aunt's home on a farm, j she told officials, she was happy, j She was welt treated and the aunt! had a son near her age with whom j She played. |After three years of living a; happy and normal life on the farm j in Washington she was placed in'a detention home in the samestate by her aunt because thej family was unable to supjxirt her any longer. Iy(WrlThere iANNOUNiHer*toresstartlness/ Is exi One i•«S£TRI-VISION VIEWER. I in richly grained, walm able lenses which focuCARRYING CASI for Tri- Vision Cam strap.CAMERA s n o p
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Long Beach Independent
Long Beach, California, US
Mon, Feb 03, 1947
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