Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-15
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The Ch0n01er Case COnk1nue0 -The
 Mother Deserts Mrs. Goldey and
 Wants Rev. MT. Lathbury so Have
 Her Child-A Spirited Time i'm
 Court.
 The hearing before Judge Robertson in the
 Probate court yesterday over the possession
 of sDors Doe, now with Rev. Mr. Latin
 bury, pastor of the Summerfe1d M. E.
 church, was lively in the extreme The
 counsel on both side said severe things. It
 didn't take Attorney Dow long to convince
 Attorney Deitcher, of Newark, that he didn't
 know much about the case.
 The court room was we'll filled, but one
 face was missing, that of the mother of the
 little child, Miss Henrietta Chandler, who
 halls from Newark, N. J. Sirce the last
 hearing she has gone through complete
 menti aAtamorphosis, and yesterday sent Robert B. Bell, 6 young attorney of Newark. to tell the court that she did not wish Mrs. Goldey to have the child, but that Mr. and Mrs. Lathbury were her choice. This was the point that the attorney had been trying to show at the previous hearing. He stated that Miss Chandler did not want the child, but was being influenced unduly. Mir. and Mrs Lathbury said if Miss Chandler wanted the child that she could have her, but they didn't propose to give her mp to Mrs. Goldey.
 One peculiarity of yesterdays hearing was that Mrs. Goldey did not furnish ss much fun as usual. She was more subdued Pre- viously she gave her testimony in a dramatic way, and the counsel on both sides and even His Honor could hardly keep from laughing. Rev. MT. Fisher, of Middletown, who is championing Mrs. Goidey's cause, with eye glasses and light moustache, opened his mouth as much as ever and smiled all the way through.
 As soon as court opened, Attorney Bell handed document to His Honor, signed by Miss Chandler. which authorized him to act as her attorney. MT. Bell said that Miss Chandler and her father came to his office last Saturday and the young woman told him that she had been influenced by Mrs. Goldey in what she had done in attempting to get the child away from the Lathbury's. The affair has caused her father great trouble, and she was now willing to do anything to l undo the wrong. She would sign any paper which would aid in keeping the child with the Lathburys. It was then she signed the power of attorney and told Mr. Bell to come to New Haven and do all he could to keep the child in possession of the Lathburys.
 Attorney Wright, Mrs. Goldey's counsel, ! said-it was most extraordinary proceeding ! and tried to show by the testimony of the Newark young legal luminary that he inf1u- ! enced Miss Chandler to sign the document. Not succeeding in this, he objected to the | document, as 1t related entirely to habeas ! corpus proceeding. The court took the doc- ! ument for what it was worth.
 Mrs. Lathbury took the stand and testified | as follows: "On September 21 Mrs. Boyle ! came to my house and wanted to see my | husband. She said Mrs. Goldey told me great many things, and have come up to ! find now whether they are true. She said ! she learned l was very poor, had scarcely ! enough to eat and made servant of little Dora. Miss Chandler then came in. She \ told me Mrs. Goldey came to her in her house and pestered her almost to death for fifteen months. She agreed to give me the | child and come down to the Probate court ' and signed the adoption papers," Mrs. Mary Kicker, who lives in the same | house as MT. Lathbury, testified as to the ability of MT. and Mrs. Lathbury to support ! the child as she ought to be supported. She
 said she heard Mrs. Goldey gay to Dora that ' Mrs. Lathbury was her mamma and she should obey her. The case was here adjourn ed until afternoon.
 Rev. MT. Lathbury was then put on the stand. There was nothing new in his teeti- mony.
 Harry 0. Brown, young man with side-
 boards and long face, of 87O Broad street, New York, testified that he was step brother of Miss Chandler, the mother of the child. He said he had a talk with Mrs. Goldey, and she told him she did not think the Westerfeld's proper persons to care for the child, and she had friend in Brooklyn for whom she was trying to get the child. She gave the child, however, to MT. and Mrs. Lathbury, and afterwards to him that she was disappointed in them and want ed to get Dora back again. he told him that she got the child from the Westerfelds to give to the Lathburys. After ward Mrs. Goldey told the witness that she had $2OO, which she would give to anyone who would get the child away from the LsthburYs. She said Dora was i'll treated. Miss Chandler, the child's mother, does not support herself; but receives weekly income from her father.
 On the cross-examination Attorney Wright asked of the witness:
 Have you ever been in jaila" "No, sir" replied MT. Bower, at the same time sarcastically asking, Have youa' Have you ever been arrested?" asked At- torney Wright.
 "No. Have youg" was the answer Attorney Dow was on his feet and wanted to know what the meaning of such questions meant. Attorney Wright said he desired to break the witness down, but his honor Ie~ piled that he couldn't be allowed to do it in that manner.
 Mrs Mary Chandler, step-mother of Miss Chandler, was sworn. She resides on Broad street, New York. She testified that Mrs. Goldey told her that she had taken the child from the Wester6elds to give her to MT. and Mrs. Lathbury. She wanted to be made guardian. Afterward she desired that MT. Chandler help get the child back to Mrs. Goldey or she would expose him and | make all the trouble she could for the fam | fly on account of Henrietta's disgrace. Mrs. | Goldey gave ss her reason at the time that | Dora was made @ servant of. The witness | said that for year her step-daughter had ! not spoken to her.
 The plaintiffs counsel here started to ask
 her certain questions, which Attorney Dow ! objected to as not bearing on the case. His honor thought it best, out of personal con- k sideration for all the parties concerned, not | to go into the details about the child's birth He said such testimony would have no \ weight with the court.
 | Attorney Dow was next sworn and testi- fled: "I am Dora's guardian, made so by due notices published in the papers. At Mir. \ Lathbury's Mrs. Goldey said: ''I have dis- posed of several children. You could have | had Dora if you had only made the proper | arrangements" This was after I was ap- | pointed guardian and when Mrs. Goldey | came to demand the child. Mrs. Goldey al- so said that she had been offered one hun dred dollars for the ohild I saw Miss Etta Chandler and asked her if she entertained pressed, and told Ter if she did she could ! come to New Haven and she could have Dora"
 After a recess of ten minutes Attorney Dow wanted the judge to hear Dora alone | some time and he could tell whether she had been ill-treated. The plaintiff objected. Samuel Westerfeld of Bloomfield, N. J., \ was the next witness. He saw the Lath- | bury's in Attorney Dow's presence. Mrs. Goldey asked MT. Lathbury if he didn't 1 thoroughly understand that he couldn't have | the childa MT. Lathbury made no answer. ''I demanded the child and he said couldn't have it."
 MT. Westerfeld is 8 stubby man, with a \ wayworn looking moustache and eyes set | deep in his head. Attorney Dow took him | in hand and in his cross-exarnination made MT. Westerfeld appear as if it was no picnic. He winced and jerked and squirmed under | the questions that he was asked. The plsintiff's counsel here endesvored to introduce the letters that passed between Mrs. Goldey and the Lathburys.
 Mir. Dow objected on the ground that he \ had called for the letters on the direct testi- | mony and the plaintiff denied that they had | them. On the rebuttal testimony they were \ trying to put them. His honor said he | had heard MT. Dow ask for them but he .