The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-06-06
..xyso Is M rs Cobb can Answ

..g1 arr FOR POSSESSION OF A CHILD. 10.
A rather interesting case is pending in the
Supreme Court, before Judge Potter of Sche-
nectady, with regard to the possession of a lit
tie girl, Norah by name, the daug liter of Mrs
Lucy Cobb, the celebrated pardon brokeresss
The facts of the case are that Norah was born
when her mother was nineteen years of age,
and, being in reduced circumstances, advertised
for a home for herself and baby The notice
coming to the attention Of Thomas Z Pike,
then OF Auburn and now a resident OF . ne
nectady, the couple were taken into MS iainliy'
the mother working, she asserts lor tne ne sup
port of herself and child for the space oi l S
years, at the end of which time she ieit MT
Pike with the understanding, she aVoWs, tnat
tho child was to be hers Whenever called fof.
Since that time, five years, Moran mas remain
ed vito Mr. Pike AND hd ns p aad bs pro
lady who is childless. Mrs Cobb, during the
Ave wears intervening, has suffered more or
lass rom privation, but has finally, through
business as pardon broker-tor the .prosecu-
tion of which she has llcense-arriyed, it is
supposed, at a respectable competency. With
this change in her fortune, being able at last
to give her the. bringing up she desires, the
mothers love has returned to such degree
that she can live without her little girl no long
er. Accordingly Norah was taken by habeds
corpus one day last week, and Mr.. Pike, refus-
ing to relnquish her entirely, a suit before she
Supreme Court is the result, Alexander j.
Thompson, Esq, appearing for Mrs. Cobb, and
H tf'l hctiSloi vi uuSo obtcr Will DC gwen IN
few days. 4'gs e. - o. ~. +, 'r1 1sli 70
we olluerstand that Mr.. Pike produces q
written contract which he SAYS was entered
into by Mrs Cobb and himself, and Mrs. Cobb
denies in toto the contract and the signature
purporting to be hers. One of the Schenecta-
dy papers stated the other day that revelations
brought out in the trial OF the suit SO startled
- the husband Of Mrs. Cobb that he left her, and
his whereabouts is unknown to her. This is a
mistake, as letter written to- her by Mr. c.
since the publication of the statement, dated
May 10-and which We have been permitted to
see-shows him to be in Washington and usu-
ally affectionate, the letter commencing "My
dear wife, and being signed husband" Mr..
Cobb is at present clerk in the Treasury De-
partment. Mrs Cobb is about twenty-eight
years old; a small, rather pretty woman, with
brown eyes and brown hair, and pleasing ex-
preston of countenance. Nevertheless, her
face bears marksof care, and she invariably
looks business" whenever business is to be
done. We believe she does not deserve the
widespread and numerous insinuations and
direct charges which have been made against
her in connection with President johnson and
other prominent gentlemen, if she did she
could not be the modest, retiring woman that
she appears to be. The sympathy of the pub
lie will undoubtedly be with the mother in her
efforts to regain her child; yet there are two
sides to the story, Norah being undoubtedly
as dear to her adopted parents, from her long
residence with them, as if she were their own
child.-Trog Whiq. i s3F