The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-23
FOUND HER BABIES AGAIN.


sooo many people in Seattle will remember
pretty little Spanish woman namei Sophia de
Ia Diaz, who appeared in the superior court last
Sosemoer and applied for a divorce from hor
husband, Manuel Diax, upon charge of cruelty.
ne little woman's pitiful story secured for her
: uiSorce; but, 1t being shown that she was not
~ position to provide for her two infant chill
afen, the judge gave the custody OF them to her
husband, provision being made that the mother
mlsht visit them on certain days of each week.
Inc AFFAIR has very interesting sequel So
pnia de la Disz 10 only 10 years old She was
married st the age of IL to Manuel Diaz, Chill
esn WE'VE years her senior. They came to Sc
attic from Valparaiso several years ago. Diaz
was employed as a waiter in the restaurants of
the eity ana for time wss night steward at the
h.osemo Mt .estaurant The couple did not get
aiong Wei together and after q time the little
woman, who seemed TO be out of her ele-
ment as the vie of Daz, left him
ana went to live with friends in Kirkland. She
ner TWO children, Giiberta, aged IL months,
ana Carries. aged months, with her. That was
seven months ago. little later she brought
suit lot divorce with tie result stated,
Aast christmas the mother called at her d.
soieed husbands home on the Grant street
oltase win some presents for her babies. Diaz
reused TO admit her, aud when she tried to psss
MN IN the doorway he roughly pushed hs; out,
stsuck her and closed the door Ncxt dav Dinz
Neagle
About January the mother found that the
iatner OF her children had left the city and had
taken her babies no one knew where She was
nears-broken, and the city detectives set to
WORK on the case. They issrned that Diaz had
turnsd the children over to Mrs Bumga-d.
VINO went to Galena, Ill, while he went to San
francisc;. The chief OF police tsierraphed to
ths authorities at Galens i1quiring after the
woman, aEd the answer came that Mrs. Bum
gaFa had left Gslsas on February 10 for San
Francisco.
Immediately upon the receipt of this last dis
Pa.ca Tue mother OF the children left Seattle for
california and the happy termination of the
sIiir Is made known in the following clipping
from the San Francisco Chronicle of March is:
sophia de Ia Diaz a handsome Young spanish
woman, Yesterday appeared before Judge Hem
shaw ana applied for the custody of her two
chliaren, Giloerta and Carlos, aged 10 months
shu months, respectively. The father, alter
the divorce was granted, left Seattle, where the
parties rssided at the time, taking with him
the two children, the custody of whom had
peen given to the mother. A deputy sheriff
served the writ of habeas corpus late last
night but he could only find the elder bow The
little fellow was brought to the county Jail His
motner soon arrived and remained in prison all
night with her baby. In the afternoon both the
babies were in court and the Judge gave them
70 ,ne mother who created scene by crying
ana taking both babies in her arms and fondly
caressing them She refused to leave the court
room, however, because she feared violence
from her divorced husband. The wife was es-
corteo out OF the city by an officer She will re-.
turn to Seattle Sunday.