The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-15
THE MOTHERS PLEA.
She Wants Hattie Graham
Given to Her Husband.
SAYS SHE is KEPT PRISONER.
Hattie's Heart 10 True to Charlie hef
Father Has Gone south and Her
Mother breads Nunnerfes.

Another chapter in the romantic history
of pretty Mrs. Hattie Graham. l1-year-
old girl now in the custody of the House
of the Good Shepherd, was begun yester-
day by the issuing of writ OF naoeas
corpus from the superior court by which
Hat,ie's mother hopes to regain her dis
obedient daughter. She will probably be
successful, as Hattie wants TO get ont ana
her father, who placed her in the institu-
ton, will not be present 20 object Monday
morning when the writ is returned.
How Hattie got into the House OF the
Good Shepherd is an old story. She was
living in this city with her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. ]. ". Anspaugh, and left home
on September g. A license was procured
by Misrepresentation of her age. and she
married Charles W. Graham. man some
five or six years her senior, 10 whom her
parents were much opposed. She went
with her husband to Madison street
lodging house and remained two days.
Then they started for Colby. where Ora
ham lived. On the wharf she was arrested
by her fathers instructions. She was
then placed in the House of the Good
Shepherd.
Graham sued for a writ of habeas corpus,
making her father respondent, but Judge
Langley guashed the writ and gave the
girl to her father until she should arrive
at the proper age TO ratify or repudiase he
marriage contract which she insisted on
fulfilling.
Graham appealed 10 the supreme court,
but no hnal ind gment has been obtained.
1t would appear that he does not want one
now, for his mother-in-lsw. who once OPP
posed him, is now in favor of his taxing
the girl and going in peace.
In her petition Mrs. Anspaugh says that
Hattie was separated from Graham by her
father, the petitioners husband, by force
and fraud and prevented from living with
him longer as his wife; that Hattie is
now nearly II years old, and has been
since December, against the consent OF
herself, her mother and her husband. i'm
prisoned in the House of the Good Shep-
herd, where she is kept in close contine-
ment behind bars and where she can not
be seen by any of her friends and rea-
tiyes. and that the officers of the institu-
ton will not permit her 10 leave, although
both the petitioner and Hattie's husband
made formal demand on December Z.
Mrs. Anspaugh then comes down to the
| reasons for her ungilhngness 10 allow her
| child TO remain longer with the sisters.
| She says that her husband has deserted
| her and his family, and went TO Louisiana
| on November -, ard that Hattie, who
was by his sole desire imprisoned. is now
| in Catholic institution. where she is be-
| ing given Catholic instruction and where
| she is being constantly persuaded to be-
| come a nun in spite of her own wish and
| that of her husband and mother with the
| result that she is fretting herself into ILL
| health.
The House of the Good Shepherds al
| legged reason for still restraining the CIR. of
| her liberty is that the consent of her
father, who is a nonresident, cannot be
| obtained. Therefore Mrs. Anspaugh
| wants the court 10 inquire into the matter
| by bringing the persons having charge of
| the House of the Good Shepherd into court
by means of writ of habeas corpus.
Judge Langley granted the writ return
| able on Monday.
The sister superior of the House Of the
| Good Shepherd said last night that she
| only awaited orders from Anspaugh to
| give the girl I'd her mother, but that Ans
| paugh's attorney had not yet found him.
| Until Anspaugh consented the girl would
| be kept, since the court gave him the say
| in the matter. She was filled with merri-
ment at the idea of the girl pining under
/ Catholic instruction. and said:
an assure you that she is much hap
| pier. heartier girl than when she came
| here. and as for our trying To make
| Catholic or nun of her. il il ioolishness.
| Her mother can rest assured that we do
not wish her as nun. have heard that
| Mr.. and Mrs. Anspaugh are members of
| the A 2. A. an nt-Catholic association,
| Anspaugh did not know that We were
| Catholics when he brought the girl here,
So when he went home and his wife asked
| him he was in quandary. The next day
| he came back and said to the sister who
! had talked with him before: You are
| Protestant sisters, are you not? Iou
/ don't look like Catholics He was
| sured that We were Catholics, and con-
| siderab.v disturbed but said that
he vas willing 10 leave he girl with US If
| his wife was. | don't know what he
| thought a Catholic looked like. but he
| was probably deceived by the sisters be-
| neyolent look and her spcctacies- The
| girls mother was here once after wards,
| bat she hardly looked up, she was 80
! awed by the idea of being alone with
| Catholic.
That story of bars and bolts Is al I'M
| true Every one of the girls friends, ex-
/ cepr those whom her father forbade her 10
! see. was allowed TO see her In the parlor
| without more than the restraint good