The herald., 1896-06-28
CONTROLS HER CHILDREN
The Guardianship of the
KaSsOn Miners
THE Mother wins FULL CONTROL
Some Spicy Testimony by the
Defendants Brother
SOME VERY PLAIN TALK
Testimony ia the Lyle Creek Water
Case All in
A Little Tiff Between Two Of the Leading
Attorneys
A Sensational Suit Filled by q Deserted Wife
for Separate Maintenance-Two Divorce
County Court Notes
Testimony ia the Lyle Creek Water
Case All in
A Little Tiff Between Two of the Leading
Attorneys

The contest over the SudIuldioliP VI
the Kasson minors was concluded be-
fore Judge Clark yesterday afternoon,
the petition of the grandmother and
uncle being denied and the mother being
allowed to retain the control of the chill
dren. The testimony was of rather
racy character throughout, and deVel-
oped the fact that divorces were the reg
ular thing in the family On Friday Mrs.
Scott told about her daughters actions
with men before she was divorced from
her first husband, testifying to seeing
her sitting on the lap of a man and al
lowing him to kiss her, besides other in
discretions, and yesterday morning her
brother, E. p. Scott, took the stand and
continued the story. He told about his
sisters relations with a man named
Quigley, and incidentally referred to her
present husband, DR.. Forbes, as "a
thing" a remark which made both Mrs.
Forbes and her husband vince. He said
that his sister was in the habit of 'chas-
ing" and when asked if he had seen any,
thing wrong in her conduct said she
had come on the same train with Quig-
ley to Los Angeles several times, and
had remained in town over night. He
did not know that she had done anything
improper, but her actions were queer, to
say the least. He also stated that his
sister had chased" around with a
tramp printer to whom he had given en-
ployment in his printing office at San
Pedro. The young man said he loved his
sister and was always ready to do any
thing for her; that if she was away from
the thing" he would even now give her
his last dollar. He did not, evidently,
think the children would be benefited by
being taken from the home they now
had, where they We're sure of three meals
day, and given to their mother. 1t de-
veloped on cross examination that
young Scott is separated from his wife
and has been for twelve years.
Several witnesses stated that Mrs.
Forbes reputation for morals was bad
and among them G. w. W. Davis of San
Pedro. They were all put through rigid
cross ton, and particularly Mr..
Davis. He was cross-examined and al
lowed to go, but afterwards was re-
called by the cross-eXaminer and the
result was corker
He had testified that Mrs. Forbes rep
utation was bad. and when he was re-
called was asked whom had he talked to
about her reputation. The reply came.
"Dr. Forbes, for one" and he mentioned
several others. The attorney returned
to the attack and wanted to know what
Dr. Forbes, the husband of his client,
could have said rejecting on her virtue.
"Well, 1 will tell you" returned Mr..
Davis "He told me in conversation he
had with me that he lived with Mrs.
Kasson, or Mrs. Forbes now, I presume,
in Illicit relations at Peniel hall in Los
Angeles before he married her. but he
was married to her afterwards and that
shut all that out. and he proposed to
stop all the talk about his wife"
During the afternoon testimony was
introduced by Mrs. Forbes to show that
she was proper person to nave the
control of her own children.
Judge Clark gave his decision to the
effect that he did not think that the NOR
ais of the children would suffer by being
allowed to remain with their mother,
and an order to that effect was made.