The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-04
LAUGHTER In COURT.
Yef the Judge Did Not Order
Its Suppression.
roR IT CAME FROM sAsY's LIPS.
- Boy Was the Bone or Coutsntfsn
Between Esther and Mether-
Resky Case SesrIy Ended.

B.by Augustus II. FIemming. the inno-
ant cause Of bitter legal Fight in Judge
ostorns court room yesterday, made the
ssssIIy ssaid and dignified atmosphere Of
skst apartment lively yesterday afternoon
with his childish prattie and laughter,
BON which he would not refrain. Al
skeush Augustus vas without doabt in
eoatempt, and the stern bailiHs only
assi.sd the word Of tbs judge 10 bring the
,eushfui offender 20 the bar. he was not
Yssished, but was sent out into the CORR
Cor, blue eyes. yellow curls, blue velvet
Ism O'shanter cap and ali, With q young
woman who acted a. his nurse. And
thsrs be ran about aud shouted to his
henrs's content. In the court room, after
ths little fellow Was removed, William C..
UsunIng and May Snyder. his divorced
wife. the parents OF the child, with the aid
Il their attorneys. each continued 20 show
Judge Osborn various reasons Why the
otDer Was unfit TO have its custody. For
several hours the case was on trial. but at
,sst Judge Osborn settled the dispute
Without resort TO the method OF King Solo
NON and gave the youngster to his
neither.
Tho case was rather peculiar ore. and
great deal OF interest was manifested in
Il BY friends OF the couple. About . year
go Mrs Fiemming obtained a divorce from
Der husband on the ground of cruel and
inhunan treatment. he Offering no de-
fease. He now says that she Was not viii
ing to live a. the wife OF man in his
station of life The was then and il now q
jsni:or In the Seattle National bank build
fns). and wished to dress and live like Q
la. -
willing TO allow her TO 60 Ono thing he
had not foressen. and that was that the
custody of the haby went to its mother.
Had he known this. he says. he would
have made a defense to the suit. How
syer. when Mrs.. Flemming got the child
she placed Ii with some people at Ballard
70 be cared for while she went out to work.
fismming says that she did not work, nor
pay any further attention to the baby. but
vent around assoeiating with loose
characters. allowing him to support it.
although under no legal obligation to do so.
Early in last month Mrs. Flemming was
married to q young ran named Snyder,
Who lives at Kirkland. having met him
while she was working in the WOODEN
mills there. A few days after the mar
rage Fiemming went TO the house where
the child had been left and took it away,
leaving it with some friends Of his own
who were able and willing to care for il in
suitable manner. He says that he was
led TO do this by the fact that. as he says.
his wife's new husband had como over a
few days before and asked to see the child,
and when leaving the house had said that
he did not think his wife wanted it very
bad. anyhow. and that he would not take
! IL ny with him.
II seems. however. that the baby 5
mother was not of that opinion and she
war terribly indignant. She came over
from Kirkland and sued out q writ of
habeas corpus, directing FIemming 10
bring the child into court yesterday and
show by what right he held IL. Fiemming
made u return 10 the writ, reciting the
story above given. Mrs. Snyder replied
denying all the allegations.
When the facts were stated to Judge
Osborn in court yesterday afternoon he
remarked that the decree ofdivorce granted
the child to the wife, and she was still
entitled 10 its custody unless proven an
unit person. In which case the decree
would lee modified. Flemming himself
and other witnesses were sworn and testi-
fed. but did not prove anything more than
that the child had been left at a third
party's house by its mother, where the
father was allowed TO see IL whenever he
wished and to furnish money for its sup
port Then Mrs. Spyder's attorney moved
for dismissal of the case. which Was
granted. Taking Augustus in her arms,
Mrs. Snyder went out of the court room in
high giee. but Augustus did not seem en-
tirely satisfied, and cried out for Papa
until he was out of the building. Flem-
ming was much chagrined over the result
Of the suit, and insists that the baby does
not know its mother by that name at all.
a. she has not visited it more than hall
dozen time in considerably over year.