The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-30
His Grand mother Defies the
Courts Decision and
Runs Off With
Him.
NANGERSHEIM IN PURSUIT
A Lively Fight Leaves the Adopted
Mother in Possession Of
the Boy-she Prefers
Charges.


an eioeriy woman VINO mao IN her arms u
uee-seaf-oi paoy poy was lne SCENE
Dnat aleracten q crowd OF persons IN COURT
"ney, lopoAel sholNiy al1er Two eciocA
Yesterday AFTERNOON, me women came
rom ene rear OF hfeIt q Jansens saioon,
ule iaoill entrance q WINCH - AZ NO. 20
washington street
AS they ran loWaros second street enc
Younger woman shouted PONCE /! Foalce
AT second street sne caugnd the otner
woman and Selling hold OF the cnlad. pe-
gan TO drag It from the elderly WomanaS
arms. Inc latter refused TO give the poy
up, and a struggle ensaed. Tn two woln-
en- struck at each other fariously, wnAe
each at the same tine held fast to the boy
and shouted excdtedly in German A large
crowd soon gathered around and watched
the fight.
After a hot contest the younger woman
succeeded IN wrenchdng the boy from the
other woman grasp. The little fellow
was crying bitterly and the young woman
pressed him to her bosom while she kiss
ed him tenderly. The elderly woman had
by no means given up the contest, and
she again grabbed the child by the coat.
AuAo yoNh5 Woman Wdo
ever. not to r~elinquish her hold. h held
on 10 +u,a han, r;+b OIL s,ar stranoth, while
~ 70 uie poy "asu ~ aoi S~ ~ va.
she continued to scream and shout Tor
the police
- - .r
IN a rev minutes Foiicemah Wantefs'
who had been attracted by the screams,
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elderly woman. leaving the other woman
in the possession of t,e child. ran towards
Huuson street. WINTERS caught her anu
brought her back. He tried to find out
what the pugdiistic combat was all about.
but the two women were SO excited that
they both started to talk at once. and he
conc,a,ded 70 take Them both to Police
headquarters together with the boy.
1t the Police Station the Young woman
said she was Mrs Otto Wangersbeim
street me otsa,. wan,an was Ms Meta
Jaerer. Of No 1.4os Grand street Grand
Iasa aus yr.,s W. uraananaa 80 =
soah Jaeger on ssalaaan Wangeisnein
The story of the dispute over the pater-
,s+1 o4 +ba obi,7 10. haa, u,hassbad IN
~ ~ = ep'4 nas oen -
snese Columns ana Is Iamaliar 70 many
oo,,r+s ~ tebas sta+a and Naw yorx
courts OF uas S1ate ana new YORK.
over a year ago MIS-. WdngerSnelm OD-
tanned from the Board of Chosen FREQ
holders an indenture Of the boy. who
was then a sickly little fellow confined
in the Aims House at Snake Hill, where
he had been placed by his parents, who
were too poor to care for him. The
child had no hair and was suffering from
sore eyes. BY tender care Mrs. Wangers-
helm succeeded in restoring the boys
health. and she BECAME very much at
tached to him.. The mother of tine
youngster was a woman Of evil ways.
She left her husband shortly after civ
ing birth to the child, and being unable
to support the infant she placed it in
the Aims House Mrs. Jaeger is now
sal dto be living in Brooklyn. Her hus-
band is living with his mother.
When Jaeger learned that Mrs. Wan
gersneim had adopted his child he in
stituted habeas. corpus proceedings to
gersheim claimed that she was detain-
ing the child lawfully, and she employed
counsel to defend her rights. During
the trial she secured a written statement
from the child's mother s~urrendering
ali claim on the boy and giving him over
to her care Judge Lippincott decided in
Mrs. Wangersheim's favor on the
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