Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-20
A DOMESTIC TROUBLE.
A Contest Between Parents for Ihe
Possession of a aChiId-ExcitIng Scene
In a Co,,rt Eoom

A Contest Between Parents for ihe
Possession of a ChiId-ExcitIngS Scene
in Court Room.
From the New Orleans Picayune. June 10.
There was a most exciting and affecting
scene yesterday enacted in the court build
ings, opposite Jackson Square. 1t seems
that young couple who have lived most
unhaanily for some time, owing, as the
husband alleges, TO the interference Of the
lady's family, witt whom they have been
boarding until quite recently, have sued
each other for separation from he'd and
board. .r4.. t.-.
The wife, a few days since, removed to
the City Hotel, taking with her their only
child, beautiful little girl about two or
three years Of age, the court having decreed
temporary separation, awarding the child
Professionally to the care of the mother
the husband to be permitted to visit the
child between the hours Of A. NJ. and 8 p.
NJ. each day. f.I .f..H.s
The visits Of the father were necessarily
in the presence of numbers of disinterested
spectators, in the parlor, and as might be
imagined, were not altogether satisfactory
to him. He could not fondle his child,
save in the presence of witnesses, and de-
termined, in the hope of bringing about a
reconciliation, to gain possession Of and
secrete it. This he accomplished by going
to the hotel and taking the child away,
placing it in charge of colored nurse on
Gravier atreei, where it was kept two or
three DAYS. The mother naturally caused
search TO be made, and finally the child
was found and restored TO her. s
This morning the wife, with her little
daughter in a nurses arms, together with
its grandparents, appeared in the Fifth
District Court-the case having been fixed
for TO day-but the court not being in
session, eonsequeGt upon its adjournment,
as a mark of respect 10 the late ex-Presi-
dent Buchanan, the whole party started TO
leave the building, when, descending the
main stairway, the father of the child was
observed 10 rush toward the nurse, grasp
the infant from her arms, and attempt to
make way with it. r..
The grandfather grasped the father by
the collar, at the same time drawing a re-
volver. Just then the mother spfang,
shrieking, between her father and husband,
preventing the former from firing.
A large crowd was instantly drawn to-
gether, and for some time a scene Of the
widest confusion prevailed, during which
the father of the child succeeded in run
ming off with her in his arms. He was
quickly followed, and ran into the Second
District police station, where he gave the
child to Lieut. Manning, begging him to
keep her. .r.s ,.s b.
Both the parties--lhe father and grand.
father-were arrested, and soon after re-.
leased on parole Meantime the child had
been handed over to Sheriff Avery, who,
holding the little stranger in his arms with
fstherly care, wandered around some time
before finding out TO whom it legally -be-
longed. He found the mother at last,
whose JOY upon regsining her little one
may be better imagined than described.
The case, so far as we can learn, is a
most unfortunate one, the husband declar-
ing that he passionately lSves his child
and wife, and must at least see the former
whenever he nsy so desire, while his wife
persists IN her suit for divorce, avering
that for many reasons she can no longer
live with him.