The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-11-07
AN AFFECTING SCENE
PROFESSOR s. D'ANNA GETS HIS
LITTLE SON HUGH.
The Mother Takes an Appeal-Little
Fellow Stood Between the Di-
vorced Father and Mother
Wanted to go With Latter.

Fellow Stood Between the Di-
vorced Father and Mother
Wanted to go With Latter.
From Daily Sentinel, Noy. 1.
The sensation which broke out in
Hickory last week, for which Prof.
D'Anna and his divorced wife are re-
sponsible, has been settled. The
Hickory Press and Carolinan says the
whole thing is a sensation, the revela-
tion of which would fill book and
make interesting reading for some
people, but the editor declines TO
give the facts connected with the
affair. He says:
Mrs. May Murrill D'Anna Thomp-
son is the daughter Of the former ed
itor and proprietor OF the Press and
Carolinian. Miss May Murrill was a
Female Academy, at which Prof.
D'Anna was one of the teach
ers That was l3 years ago. Prof.
D'Anna, himself good looking man,
now engaged in a college in Lexington,
KY, married the beautiful girl, and
two children, both boys, were born to
them. There was talk, and a separ-
bion between them; and the father
took possession Of the children. The
mother went TO Washington and there
married Mr.. Thompson, the brother
Of her brothers wife. Prof. D'Anna
took one of the boys with him to
Lexington, and left the other one, the
youngest, here with Mrs. Alice Murril,
the step mother Of Hugh A. Murrill,
and Mrs May Murrill D'Anna Thomp-
son, is therefore only the step grand
mother of the child.
Mrs. Thompson arrived In Hickory
from Washington Wednesday morn
ing and took the child to Newton,
where the officer found them and
brought them back to Hickory that
Wednesday afternoon.
At Newton Mrs. Thompson tele
graphed to Mr.. Thompson at Wash
ington and also employed counsel.
Mr.. Thompson came on from Wash
gton and Prof. D'Anna came from
Lexington. The case was heard
before Esquire Moser on Saturday and
he bound Mrs, Thompson over to the
superior court at Newton next Feb
ruary under a $50 bond. She took the
child. Elk Judge G. A. Cilley and Mr..
Thomas M. Hufham appeared for Mrs.
Murrill and Prof. D'Anna. Thereupon
they sued out writ OF habeas corpus
for the possession of the child and it
was made returna BILE before Judge
Fimberlake. Franklin county, last
Tuesday. The sheriff took possession
Of the child Monday. 1t bids fair to
be fight to the finish in all OF its
details. There is no telling where or
when the case will enc.
THE FATHER GETS THE BOY.
Judge Timterlake, at Louisburg,
yesterday, turned little Hugh over to
~ For
Thompson took an appeal. The father,
mother and child arrived in Raleigh
yesterday afternoon.
The News and Observer says the
little fellow stood between his mother
and father in the Union station, just
in front of the ticket window Of
the Southern railway. The father was
buying a ticket to Hickory for himself
and the boy. The mother had her
pleading with suppressed inten-
sity to be allowed to take Hugh.
For there was only few moments
more. The child looked up, first at
one, then at the other, in a nervous
way, with eyes glimmering. There
was one more appeal-a last One-from
the divorced mother bending forward
to her former husband. Then sud-
denly putting her arm around the
C0lluS HECK, sue klSSCU ulu pdSSlOu-
ateIy, and swept across the room. with
a complex of many emotions in her
face Despair and determination and
hope aud yindictiveness and love
they were all there with their differ
ent lights.
The father had looked at her and
seemed at one second almost embar-
rassed, certainly touched. His face
was set, but not free from certain
softness of expression. He watched
her an instant as she walked rapidly
away odiagonallY toward the door,
| and then he bought the tickets. In a
little while, together with Sheriff
Hawn, he took his little son by the
| hand and all boarded the 4:20 train
| for Hickory.
In the meantime the mother, now
| Mrs Thompson, had Joined her hus-
| band, who awaited her near the door.
| She did not vince, but, taking bis
hand, quickly called a carriage and
| the two disappeared.