The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-02
SIX YEARS OF DIPLOMACY.
Vain Efforts to Recover a Child Abducted
To switzerland.

Vain Efforts to Recover a Child Abducted
To switzerland.
From the New York Herald
This is the story of diplomatic in
| cident;@ the story of how two govern
ments became Interested in an interna-
tional dispute over the possession Of a
little child. extending through several
administrations; the story Of a mother
weary Of waiting for her stolen child
discouraged By the ponderous dignity
Of the powers al Washington finally
dying Of a broken heart There is
something pathetic in the two extremes
the simple mother love on the one
hand, the six years Of weighty corre-
spondence between the United States
governmc mt and that of Switzerland on
the other. The recent death Of Carrie
Turner. the well-knOwn actress RECALLS
To those who knew her intimately the
great sorrow which embittered the lat
ter years of her life.
Miss Turner was wOoed and won by
Albert His, an importer and a member
of one Of the most influential families
of switzerland. They separated. In
the meantime child had been born to
them-Gonstance Madeline His-whase
name figured C0nspicuously i'm the dip
lomatic correspondence between this
government and that Of Switzerland for
years. MIR, His returned To SWItzer-
land, his Wife Il the stage. He applied
for divorce in the courts of SWitzer-
land When legally notified of 1t she
hurried there, made q fight for her rep
utatton and. on what in this country
would be known as a cross complaint"
secured tine decree Of divorce herself
and was awarded the custody of the
child. there being a private agreement,
not a matter of record, between the
father and mother as to its support
She returned To this country triumph
ant and resumed her professional ca
reer. The divorce was granted on Jan.
-. 1880
4 little more than year later Mr..
HIS returned 10 New York and took
every precaution 10 keep his former
wife from knowing that fact. ON May
4. 1891, His, by bribing a nurse. g0t pos
session Of the ittle girl while her
mother was playing i'm Nero at Nib
los garden, and when Miss Turner
came home it was only 10 ind note
from her former husband saying ne had
taken Connie" as both called the
child, and sailed with her on the Ems
that afternoon. The vessel was by that
time far out at sea. and the agoniZed
mother could do nothing but mourn for
her who had gone and might not he
brought back. 1t is not necessary to
dwell upon this part of the story. He
took the child TO his home in Switzer-
land. where it remained and IS still. The
mother never saw her again.
Miss Turner took the advice of friends
who did not give the matter sufficient
consideration, and employed a Boston
attorney To go 10 Switzerland % try TO
recover her child by legal processes. II
was hopeless undertaking. but he did
not know il. He went there and found
confronting him a family of great in
fiuence and wealth and a prejudired
judiciary. He employed a Swiss attnr-
ney 10 help him bur il was Of no Use.
They were driven from one court TO
another There We're all sorts OF de-
vices To delay and defeat the case. Then
came an appeal u the highest court OF
that country, and that meant an indeti-
mite delay While the lawyers were
WrangIiug and the Swiss courts quIb-
bling a saa-eyed woman waited, with
an almost brrAAns AsaEE, N New York