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Society Blamed for Girl's Tragic LifeBy CHUCK CHEATHAMChildren arc not naturally bad —-but when they find themselves denied the love and affection they should receive at home they areShe was adopted from this homeby the Meyer family and brought to Lone Beach.The investigation disclosed, from talking to teachers and-—----------Edward F, (the Duke) Wellington was questioned last night by Lo* Angles homicide aquari officer* and Bnrbaak police In connection with the killing of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia” of Long Beach* Hie “Duke” admitted living with Mils Martin In a Ventura boulevard motel.ij'.v ' -,vK». * •* • -• . z;y{neighbors, that the child was in “great need of care by some quiet and understanding person “Mother is increasingly nervous and Unreasonable with child.(Continued on Pase 9)tt TifFa(W polio did t (Lt “con/ ing “Biac geles. that nectii(Inaskednotedgivethese his e:BrNoteThe(Acme Tlt;*1ej»hot»)LYNN MARTINquite 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. Mend 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,”! 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 t are still going to school—you mayj even blame yourself. You and 1 and society as a whole .are to blame Not the girl.”Lynn Martin, as the girl Ijer-self prefers to be known, first came to the attention of juvenile authorities in . July 1943, whenI 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 comnion-law husband. She believes she was 4 years of age then.Her half sister was continu-crying, upset and nervous. n many occasions she attempted to commit suicide, Lynn was rescued 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 well treated and the aunt j had a son near her age with whom j She played. |After three years of living a; hajinv and normal life on the farm j in Washington she was placed in'a detention liomn in the samestate by her aunt became the | family was unable to supjwrt her any longer. I8iyANNOUNHe forstaneI* lt;OnTfti-yiSION YJEWfi in richly (pained, w aMo looses which ICARRYING Cfor Tri-Vision C strop.CAMERA SHOP
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Long Beach Independent
Long Beach, California, US
Mon, Feb 03, 1947
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Eli F.
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