Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-26
Born WANTED TaE CHILD.
A PAINFUL scene ~ the Jefferson
Market Court.
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Domingo M. Monjo, auditor OF the
Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan
railway, and his divorced wife, Cathe-
rine, figured in painful scene in Jeifer-
SON Market Police Court yesterday morn
ing. Mrs. Monio had come to the court
under the escort Of policeman. Her
eyes we're red with weeping and her
dress was bedraggled, for she had spent
the night with her six-year-old child. Bea-
trice. in the Mercer-Street police station.
On Tuesday evening Mrs. Monio was
seated with her child in q restaurant in
University Place, when Mr.. Monio en-
tered. He is pale-faced man OF about
forty, with black side whiskers, and
wears CLOSES. He glanced quickly at
the table where Mrs. Monjo and their
child were seated. 1t was bis first meet
ing with his wife since April e, 1856,
when Judge Barnard granted the decree
of divorce 10 the Supreme Courtin Brook
lyn. At that time be had been awarded
the custody Of their three children-Do-
mingo, now aged eleven; Edward, aged
eight. and Beatrice. The Court held
that Mrs. Monio had not been true to
her marriage VOWS, and was therefore
not q fit person to have charge OF the
children. The three children at that
time were in q convent in Montreal,
whittier the father had taken them.
Subsequently, however. the mother went
10 Montreal and secured the custody OF
the little girl and brought her back to
this city.
Since then Mr.. Monjo had been seek
ing the child. When he saw her in the
restaurant last night he attempted at
once TO take her away. But the child
did not want 70 leave her mother and
she resisted her father. The mother
struggled desperately also to retain her.
The scene in the restaurant became
painful 10 the spectators. Monjo, find
ing he could not secure the little girl,
went outside and got a policeman. de
showed the officer the decree OF divorce
awarding him the custody OF the child.
The policeman was in quandary. lie
advised the mother to surrender her
child. but she stubbornly refused.
Finally Monjo said that he would make a
charge of kidnapping against his wife
and have her locked up. The policeman
took mother and the child tothe station,
Monio made the complaint and they
passed the night as prisoners.
Monjo had lawyer to state his case
to the Court yesterday morning, but Mrs:
Monio did not. Justice Patterson told
the father that the law entitled him to
his daughter, and he could take her. A
pitiful scene followed. The little girl
chung shrieking to her weeping mother,
while the fathers strong arms tore her
away. and hurried out OF court with her.
Monjo's bone is in Toledo. but at present
he is staying with hi, brother, Nicholas
Monjo, furrier, who lives at No. 262
Union street, Brooklyn,
Mrs. Monjo. after securing her child
in Montreal in. March, 1887, went to
Europe and returned to this country
July 4th. She kept boarding house for
a time in Bath Beach, l.. l.. but for
week has lived with her mother, Mrs.
Jassoda, at No. 81 east Eleventh street.
The latter, with tears in her eyes, re-
counted the troubles of her daughter 70
a reporter last niglt and said that while
her daughter had been wild, the charge
that she had been false to her husband
was untrue.