The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-13

CANALS OF a BABY"
The lnfaat of DIspuaed Pa
IerniGy now Before the
Supreme Court of
Kansas.
The Hull baby case came up yester-
day before the Supreme Court of the
State of Kansas,in LeaVenworth. IC was
brought from Independence on q writ
OF habeas corpus, and Mrs. Carrie Hull
answered the writ with the disputed
grand, if not materially heroic, in the
steadiast jealousy with which Mrs.
Carrie Hull sticks to her child. 1t Is
her child until some one proves to the
contrary, and now that her husband
has left and deserted her because he
has been led to believe the child Is not
his own, there Is difficulty IN deci-
ding positively whose child the child
really is. If there was a straw berry
mark upon the sole of its Iefrtoot, or ii
It's mother had been marked after
Kansas COW, or If there had been q car
buncle upon its innocent little nose, or
If its ears had been split or its neck
branded, then there might have been
some clue of identification. But Mrs.
Carrie Hull has a baby. She says she
gave birth to the baby In Kansas City,
and proposes to produce witnesses to
prove it. On the other hand. Mrs.
Gibson, the Matron of the Kansas City
WOmen's Home, proposes to testify
that Mrs. Hull came to her last fall
and applied for baby. She gave Mrs.
Hull recommendation to the ssHome
of the Friendless'' in Leavenworth,
and it appears that some person very
much resembling Mrs. Carrie Hull
went to the Home of the Friendless in
Leayen werth and obtained she infant
child of Charles p. Hutton. It Is not
definitely settled whether Carrie Hull
is the person, and 1t is still more indef-
mite az to the child.
Mrs. Hull and her attendant occupy
a fpll suite of apartments at the "Plan-
'ters, where the disputed baby and its
nurse have all that can be provided for
them. If the baby is net Mrs. Hull's
&c certainly ought to be, for "me and
my BABY" is the sole topic of the wo-
mans conversation. There is to be Ls-
ken into consideration, that while Mrs.
Hull lavishes the most careful of
motherly affection upon the little in
nocent, no one else, except lawyers,
little embryo OF mankind lived or died.
A GOOD OMEN.
While the Times representative was
sitting alone in the Leavenworth court
room, waiting the resssembliBg OF
court, five women came into the Tenn
pie OF Justice, One of the women car
ried q baby, one claimed to be the
mother, while the other three were ev-
identity wirnesses-for they were all
interested in the baby. The baby
cried aloud. Then there came forth
two lawyers Zone with q bald head)
flom the sheriff7s Office, and the seven
concentrated around the baby-which
was the baby In dispute-and proceed
ed to comfort ir in the best way posi-
BILE.
Meantime the Times, through its OBJ
servant representative, contemplated y
cigar and wondered why babies were
SO scarce, and why Eve women and
two lawyers were so exercised over one
little child OF doubtful parentage. And
then, AS the door of the room of the
Supreme Judge of the State of Kansas
went to with bang, 70 shut out the
vociferOus walls Of the disputed infant
the Times allowed its eyes to follow q
cloud of smoke from its Havana, and
loi Happy thought. There, right
over the Judges stand. painted in the
finest of frescOed work, is a picture
q scene well known to the readers of
scripture: Solomon, the wise judge,
stands pointing to q soldier holding
alOfe naked child. A woman, suIleA,
proud and unmoved, 10 ks on while
the soldier raises his sword to cleave
the infant in two. At the feet of the
soldier upon her knee q woman crouch
es, imploringmercy for the naked baby.
Happy thought. The Times man laid
aside his cigar and proceeded to the
ef1ce of Judge Brewer and led him
forth and pointed TO the picture on the
ceiling. Il had its effect. The right
mother will get the baby.
THE DECISION.
Shortly afterwards, when the baby
had been hushed to slumber, the law
yers had prepared their stacks of law
books, and the hostof good looking fe-
male witnesses had seated themselves
IN good shape within the bar, the court
opened, Judge s. j. Brewer on the
bench, calmly studying the frescoed
scene on the ceiling just above him.
The counsel of the defendant, Mrs.
Carrie Hull, Messrs. L. B. Wheat, OF
Leavenworth and L. w. Humphreys,
of Independence, Kansas, then arose
and made q motion for q continuation
OF the case. Then the child cried, and
. majority OF the women commenced
to weep and cluster about the unre-
strainable infant. The applicants, or
rather claimants, for the custody of the
infant, 1lessrs. Sherry and FenIon,
made 3 strong argument in favor Of
the transfer of the child from the care
Of Mrs.. Hull 20 disinterested parties.
It was finally decided that the disput--
ed child should be placed In the hands
Of . responsible party and that the two
women claiming to be mothers shall
BE permitted 70 visit It In the presence
Of the nurse appointed TO take charge
Of it. The case pFoper-involVinG the
custody of che child-wilI be brought
up for hearing on the 24th OF April. In
the meantime the child will be well e.
ken care of.
BY WAY OF EXPLANATION.
To those who have not kept them
selves posted by reading the Times, it /
Is necessary 20 state, that last fall Q Ia
dy came 70 this city from Independ-
ence, Kansas, aad after seeking . child
for adoption in this city, obtained .
child In LeAven worth. It is alleged
t1eC In1s lacy, VINO ID Lhe vile OF |!
rich banker, notified her husband that |
she had borne him son, and was here
In one of the hotels of this city. The
who Is much slider than the |
wife, came 20 KanSss City and made /
merry over his good lnck. The child /
was named after 3 relative and receiy-
I'd the promised bonus Of $4,000, which |
the mother took charge Of. Then |
Was alleged that the child was found