GIRL PRODIGY SHOT

Southland Times, Issue 22040, 13 June 1933, Page 5

GIRL PRODIGY SHOT

NOTED WRITER AND REFORMER.

CRIME COMMITTED BY MOTHER.

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Madrid, June 11.

The career of a youthful prodigy was terminated when Hildegart Rodriquez, a noted writer and reformer, aged 19, was shot dead by her mother, aged 50, who surrendered herself to the police. _ Havelock Ellis, writing in the Adelphi Magazine, extols the amazing talent of the girl, whom he styles St. Hildegart, owing to her pioneering spirit in the cause of humanity. The mother, who was a remarkable woman, reared her daughter eugenically without baptism oi - religious instruction. Hildegart, whom the mother taught, could make words with letter-blocks at 11 months of age, could read at 22 months, write at 30 months, and went to the university in her 13th year. She wrote prize essays on the world’s famous lovers at 14 and secured her law degree at 17. She studied medicine, philosophy and music and was an accomplished linguist.