The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-31
light FOR A BABY.
s9vyer Shook Creates . Fam
ily Scene in Public.
= vnre WANTS TO LEAVE HIM.
1900 . Child YrsD Hes ARDs -
- Dspot-A Tale Of Mar.
ftal Woes.

"A. = ooumosion Vas caused ct the
-. shcse depot last evening when the
.sx-.f srsin from sedro came In by IN
sss~~k Of II. T. SHOOK, the lawyer. TO
- tnbv from his wife's arms. The
-.-.ses rrsy-haired father. C. A. Mosier,
- Ncines, Ia, interfsred and called
:. 800 protection, and Lieut.. HUFF re-
-. The woman and two children
- - sscort, accompanied by the police
-, tben entered o cab and we're driven
y ~ Hotel Northern, followed by Shook
:. ~. Both parties reached the hotel
ss.rt tn same time, and each demanded
S - .sh<,s arrest Matters were finally
$500 down and each secured q room.
-. kusband believed his wife about TO
80 the STATE with their children. ana
s~nuoaensly attempted to gain forclbie
s1u,ssston of them.
N. Shook Vas interviewed, and he told
- following story:
n vss married in Des Moines, Ia. i've
..ers aeo. on December %, and up TO four
geeks ago tomorrow had always lived In
rsacs md harmony with my wife. Two
ekiIdrsn we're born 70 rs, the oldest being
sov ( years old and the youngest IS
m6UkUx.
18th kindness and provided we'll for my
hmiIy. On the date mentioned while I
"a nv family were ut our home in this
AZ her brother. Albert Mosier, and
krther-in-iaw, II. r. Devlin, both OF
6edro. came to my house and demanded
ma gained admittance, and conducted
fkemssIves in such threatening manner
ut l deemed Ii necessary TO 90 for
= eficsr. When I returned. judge
y surprise when / found the
Aoass locked up and my wife
nd babies gone. I surmised that she
la gone 70 Sedro, and accordingly wrote
Der q that place. asking an explanation
ef her conduct. l wrote several times be.
10 effect that she would no longer live
With me. | then visited her several times.
and entreated her to return. but TO no
sysii. She. however. promised me that
~ would not attempt to leave the state
Without seeing me in Seattle. Saturday
evening became convinced that she In
tsnded breaking her promise, and started
for eedro, but missed the train. I then
vent to the evening train from Sedro, and
q 1t rolled into the depot | saw my wife
md children, accompanied by her father
1nd brother-in-law. in the car. When
they got of attempted to take one of
b11 thhakNus Sus was StoPRSb " y PpiiCo
sGcer. The entire party went TO the
Hotel Northern and accompanied them,
md there obtained forcible possession OF
The younger child. ] will try the power
n the courts to retain my children at
lsnt within this state"
The father OF Mrs. Shook stated that
While Shook had never laid violent hands
O his wife no had nevertheless been
guilty of conduct that made IL impossible
for her to longer live with him that she
bad written and telegraphcd TO him
iMosier) in Iowa and he had come In re-
sponse to the summons, and intended TAX
Ing her and the children homo with him,
ana that they were on their way when
nopped. Ii would now be necessary TO
teht II out in the courts, proceeding he
sas very loath to pursue.
Later in the evening the father returned
NE child TO it's mother with the under
handing that she would remain in the