Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-01
THE UOUR,r RECORD.
Superior COurt-Civil Side = Juds

| Superior COurt-Civil Side = Judge Stoddard. l In this court yesterday the case of Mary R., wife of Charles w. Lockwood, vs. the New | Haven orphan asylum was on trial, and ere ated considerable interest. The plaintiff, who is the mother of two children now held | by the asylum, seeks to regain possession of ! them, and they were accordingly brought into court yesterday on a habeas corpus granted by Judge Beardsley some weeks l ago.
 | Attorney Henry E. Pardee appeared for the New Haven orphan asylum and Attorney l 0. H. Fowler represented the plaintiff. 1 Edwin Brooks, S. H. Kirby, Thomas c. 1 Lewis, c. J. Monson, W. R. Hubbell, c. NJ. | Loomis, Emmeline Paine, Clara Potter and Clarissa Dudley all testified that they be- lieved that both the plaintiff and her hus- band were competent to take care of the children properly, and that they were proper 1 persons to have full charge of the children. The plaintiff, as it appeared from abun- 1 dance of testimony, was married to man 1 named Dudley fourteen years or so ago, and | by whom she had two children, Clara and May, who are now thirteen and eleven years | old. The father and grandfather surrender ed the children to the asylum and the mother has been trying to get them out for some time.
 To the petition the asylum management made return: That the children are not i'm prisoned. That in September, 1880, the children were surrendered to the asylum, and were placed there by Mrs. Dudley, who was to pay seventy-fve cents per week for their board. That portion of this sum was paid, but large balance is now due. That on January 24, 1886, Dudley fully surrendered the children co the asylum. In 1880 it was n&a1 f<1% It,ro thnk f1o was leading an immoral life. That the asy- lum management were particularly requested to keep the children from their mother. That the custom of the asylum has been to find suitable homes for the inmates, and that the petitioner was unsuitable person to care for them. That the petitioner violated the rules of the asylum by frequently writing to the children and thus making them unsettled in their mind.
 Charles Lockwood, husband of petitioner, testified that he was messenger between New Haven and New York and lived at 460 State street in a house belonging to William B. Goodyear.
 Mrs. Lockwood testified that the children were baptized in Grace church, Fair Haven, and that she was very anxious to bring them up in the church. Their sponsors were MT. s. K. Jones, the artist, and Mrs. Fitzgerald, wife of the rector. 1 am not obliged to work now, having plenty of means since my second marriage.
 ''Did you not write letters signing yourself Mrs. George Meigs before your last mar riage?"
 1T believe did MT. Meigs was my in- tended husband I wrote this because I wanted to hire the rooms.''
 "Did you not call yourself Mrs. Lockwood before your last marriage?"
 E'I don't think I did"
 ''Is MT. Meigs in the roomg'
 s'He is.''
 "Has he been married?'
 "He has not. I had a music sign on my door, and then changed it to 'dressmaking. My father is 8 carpenter on the Shore Line road, and lives in Madison.
 By MT. Fowler Should you lose your husband would you feel enough courage to support the children by your profession as music teacher and dressmaker?'
 II certainly should"
 MT. Fowler to Judge Pardee-"Will you bring the children into court? No one will hurt them"
 Counsel can see them in the judges rooH.'
 The judge-'I have no choice in the mat ter"
 Judge Pardee then went out for the chil dren and during the season of waiting Mrs. Lockwood tainted and was assisted from the court room by her husband.
 Mrs. Caroline Curtis, president of the New Haven orphan asylum-We had refused per mission to the children to visit their mother The mother told me that she had not always done right. This was in 1885. She said she had reformed in the January before and said she had found that if she was ever to have any health she must reform. I never knew that the applicant offered to pay the chil- dren's board. The mother has been allowed to see the children in the presence of the ma- tron. The children are contented and there is no reason why they should be removed"
 Mrs. Susan Candee, one of the asylum managers, in her testimony said: "The moth CT did not deny about her former life, but later had told me she had reformed. I told her I was surprised to find her in Fair street, as she had deceived me-"
 Mrs. Laura A. Kingsley, matron of the orphan asylum, testified that MT. Lockwood called at the institution two or three times. The last time he came the children greeted him very affectionately, the older one put ting it's arms around his neck and kissing him.
 William B. Goodyear, owner of the house in which Mrs. Lockwood lives, said he con sidered it a respectable place-none better in the city.
 Mrs. Lockwood testified that she lived with her husband Dudley) after the occur renee over Redcliffe's rests urant and that too, at his request. She said that at the time she was arrested w. H. Wheeler, the real estate man from whom she hired the rooms, was in her apartments. He offered money and said it was & shame that such pretty woman should be compelled to work so hard. Then the officers entered and MT Wheeler said if they wanted anyone to ar rest him, as the lady was not to blame.
 The testimony was concluded and the ar- guments will be made to-day THE EVERGREEN CEMETERY CASE.