St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-01
FOUGHT FOR ABBIE
FRIENDS OF MISS THOMPSON NOT
SATISFIED WITH LEGAL
WARFARE,
so THEY USE THEIR FISTS
YESTERDAYS DEVELOPMENT
IN THE HABEAs CORPUS PRO-
CEEDINGS.
OTIS DISMISSED THE WRIT
The Court Holding That Jurist
diction Rested With Judge
Moran.

The controversy over the posses-
sion of Abbie Thompson, the sixteen
year-old girl for whose recovery
from her guardian and uncle, Will
liam Thompson, A. D. Beadle, her
brother-in-law, swore out a writ Of
habeas corpus Saturday, went far
ther than legal row yesterday and
led to physical violence between the
contesting parties and their attor-
neys.
When Thompson appeared before
Judge Otis Saturday evening, in am
swer to the writ, the court instruct
ed him to bring the girl into court
yesterday morning. He did so, and
the result yesterday was that Judge
Otis dismissed the writ on the
ground that Judge Moran, Of the
probate court in Dakota county. had
jurisdiction over the girl and her
guardian, as he was the one who
made Thompson guardian, and has
recently issued an order calling on
him to show cause why he should
not be removed, it being charged
that he has not been properly treat
ing the girl.
AS soon as Judge Otis had dis
missed the writ Thompson turned
TO the girl and requested her to go
with him. The other side interfered.
and Attorney Capehart called on
Judge Otis to enforce his order by
furnishing them for contempt for in
terfering
The court replied sharply: THE
girl is remanded to her guardian
Then j. NJ. Hawthorne, attorney
for Beadle, said they would wait
until they got outside, and he would
smash the face of anybody attempt
ing to Interfere with the girls lib
erty. Thus matters stood when
they all walked out into the cor
r1dor, and then the fun began in
earnest. Capehart charged the on
posing side with wanting to get pos
session of the girls property, and
Hawthorne returned the charge with
-the addition that her guardian not
only wanted her property, but ner
liberty
When they reached the Wabasha
street entrance to the court house.
the girl refused to proceed further
with her guardian, and when he at
tempted to force her, Hawthorne
tried to stop him. He struck at Haw-
thorne and the latter struck back.
In response to something Hawthorne
said Capehart called him liar, and
was on the verge Of moving on the
enemy when one Pat Fortune came
! up smiling and threatened to de-
molish him if he laid hands on his
friend. Hawthorne, who had his
dukes engaged taking care of Thomp-
son. The thing was just getting good
when cop turned up. The cop was
to the belligerents what oil is to the
troubled waters, and hostilities
ceased on the instant
But when the smoke of battle had
cleared away, little Abbie was no
where in sight. She had been taken
charge Of by Deputy Sheriff Kray-
enbuhl, and conducted to the sher-
ifs Office. AS soon as Thompson
learned where she was he made a.
mad rush for the Office, but Haw-
thorne was on deck with an order
from Judge Moran directing Thomp-
son not to interfere with the girls
stopping with her sister. Sheriff
Chapel said he would recognize this
order, and sent a deputy to conduct
her to her sisters house.
AS Thompson and Capthart were
charging through the revolving
door after the deputy, the gang Of
lookers-on who had gathered at the
entrance to the court house held
the door and kept the two prisoners
for several seconds. BY that time
the deputy had entered the Jail build
ing with his charge, and when the
two pursuers arrived, they were
asked to show their passes before
being admitted. Later on the girl
was sent in a hack to the home of
her sister, Mrs. Beadle
Thus ended the fray for one day.
but there is evidently more trouble
ahead.