Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-29
A PECULIAR OUTRAGE,

The authorities OF Washington County
are just now engaged in an outrageous piece
of persecution under color of law. It ap-
bringing child three years old. Being
obliged to work for living, she placed the
child in the care of family in Saltwater
and for time paid its board. Having re-
Gently married man named Anderson, who
resides in St. Paul, the mother desired to
secure her child. At first the parties assent
ed, but then withdrew their assent. Ander-
son and his wife accordingly drove over to
Saltwater, and the mother, finding the
child, took it in her arms and they returned
to st. Paul.
From this time forward the sheriff and
county attorney of Washington county have
pursued course of heartless persecution,
which ought to debar both of them
from the Offices they hold. A tel
sgram to the chief of police of
st. Paul found ready response, and late
in the evening, Anderson, his wife and the
the child, were all arrested and dragged to
the city prison. The mother had been guilty
of the heinous offence of taking her own
child and must be punished. Still later in
evening-ten or eleven o'clock-the Wash.
ington county sheriff appeared at
the City hall for ibis prisoners.
Jailer Jessrang, to his credit be it said, re-
fused to deliver the prisoners at that unssa.
sonable hour, but the chief of police was
summoned and apparently conceded with
the idea that heinous crime had been COM
mitted. He accordingly ordered their de-
livery to the Saltwater sheriff. That doughty
parsonage did not wish to do 80 humane a
thing as to take both mother
and child. The child was sleeping in
its mothers arms at the prison and with
refined brutality this noble sheriff, tore it at
nearly the midnight hour from the arms of
its weeping and imploring mother and
handwriting Anderson, who offered no re-
sistance, drove back to Saltwater, leaving the
almost frantic woman bereft of both child
and husband.
This brutal act occurred three or four
weeks ago and ever since then Anderson has
lain in Jail in Saltwater, charged With the
offense of accompanying his wife to secure
the possession of her own child, the child in
the meantime being restored to its adopted
home.
Being a stranger in strange land tie
man has been unable to secure bail, and the
county attorney of Washington county has
chung to him as though he was felon of the
deepest dye. The nobleness of the sheriff
has only been equaled by the nobleness of
the county attorney. The man was brought
before Judge Wilkin of this city day or
two since on q writ of habeas
corpus, but the Judge, while
regretting that he could not enter into
the merits of the case, decided that the iuris-
diction belonged in the Washington county
district, and he could not act. The county
attorney of Washington county assented to
release the man apon his making deposit
of 5000 or $3.50. 1t was ascertained
that this amount exceeded his wealth
and that $174 covered his total means.
With the understanding that this sum
should be deposited and his own bond taken
for his appearance, Anderson's attorney was
assured the man would be released and in
would not be necessary to accompany his
client to Saltwater. No sooner was the
prisoner back in Saltwater than all agree
ments were repudiated, his $174 refused,
and the man was again thrust into Jail,
where he still remains.
The mother is bereft of her child. The
husband is in prison. The great offense of
a mother taking possession of her baby is
being nobly punished by the noble officials
Of Washington county.
And this is the MONDAY Of civilization in
she nineteenth century.