The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
A REMARKABLE CHARGE
Vigorous Fight for the Possession
of a Child.
IN THE CALLAHAN CASE
The Father Alleges That the Mother
Abused the Child and Drank
Raw Whiskey Out OF a
Barrel.

terday at a hearing in the divorce case
OF Monica Frey Callahan against Col.
Emmett Callahan before Judge Lindsay
of the district court The matter on for
hearing was motion of Mrs Callahan
that the defendant be ordered to bring
their child within the Jurisdiction of the
court, it being alleged that when last
heard of the child was kept at Salt
Lake. Mrs. Callahan also wanted the
court to direct the defendant to pay a
stated sum regularly into court for the
payment of a servants wages
After hearing a lot of testimony and
der Amusement.
The first witness examined was a
Mrs. Belbuly, who testified in behalf Of
Mrs Callahan. She said she was ac-
qualnted with Mr.. and Mrs. Callahan
and their child and that she entered
the service of Mr.. and Mrs Callahan
on Feb. Is, 1898, and continued until
March 16, at which time the child was
about five years old Continuing, Mrs,
Beibuly said:
Il heard a conversation btween the
plaintiff and the defendant relative to
this child. That was before this suit
for divorce was started. Mr.. Callahan
stated he would put the child where
Mrs. Callahan would never set eyes on
him again. When he came back he
told me he put him in Pennsylvania:
the child told me at one time he had
been in BOzeman. Mrs. Callahan took
care of the child at the house while |
was there; Mr.. Callahan, of course
waited on the child at the table the
same as any man would-any father.
Mrs. Callahan and myself generally
took care of the child. When l was
there Mrs. Callahan was sick. The child
preferred it's mother to it's father. |
never saw any case of cruelty on the
part of the father or mother toward
the child. l was present at a CONVEX
sation between the child and his father,
and the father tried to get the child
to say he did not care for his mother.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Callahan took the
child out at times: Mrs. Callahan al
lowed the child to so out at times, but
he was always warmly dressed for the
weather"
Mrs. A. ]. Walker, a witness on be-
half of the plaintiff, testified that she
knew the defendant by sight and saw
him with the child at Salt Lake out
at Saltair, on the 30th of last May.
w. j. Christie, a witness for the
plaintiff testified that he knew Mr. and
Mrs. Callahan, and lived across the al
ley from them.
LAS to the boy being left out of doors
by Mrs. Callahan" said Mr.. Christie II
am not at home a great deal. and I
only know of one occasion when thel
boy was left out of my own knowl-
edge. I was sick and confined to the
house for a few days last fall, the lat
ter part of October. Mrs. Christie was
down town somewhere and~canle home,
and the Callahan child came home with
her She said she had met him down
on the street and he wanted to come
in and get warm he came in and
warmed his feet for a few minutes;
seemed quite jolly and in good humor.
That is the only time I positively know
of the child's being left out long enough
to get cold
On cross examination by Gay Stivers,
the witness said he could not give exact
dates; 1t was the last two or three days
of registration last fall. The child was
warmly dressed. The child was not
crying, and Mr.. Callahan did not know
where the mother of the child was at
the time.
The affidavit of Mrs. Ida NJ. B. Chris
tie, wife of the preceding witness, was
read She said she knew of number
of times during last winter when Mrs.
Callahan went down town on after
Moons, locked her house and left the
boy, Emmett Callahan. out of doors.
Mrs. Christie said she did not wish to
be understood as charging cruelty
against Mrs. Callahan in that regard,
although she would consider it an act
of thoughtlessness on her part. Mrs.
Christie said she wanted to add that
Mrs. Callahan knew that when she was
at home the boy was always welcome at
the house, but Mrs Christie was not
always at home, and on such occasions
the boy would be left out of doors. Mrs.
Christie remembered two occasions. OF
her own knowledge she did not know
Int - Iory ~
or exposure. Mrs. Christie also added
that she made the affidavit because she
was subpoenaed as a witness, and not
of her own inclination.
The following remarkable affidavit of
Colonel Callahan, dated June 81, was
then read:
Emmett Callahan, being first duly
sworn. on oath deposes and says: That
there is a limitation to human endur-
ance, and that it ceases to be a virtue
to fail to reply in some slight meas
ure, at least to the false and mali
cious accusations of plaintiff; that the
defendant herein is the father of the
minor child, Emmett Callahan, named
in the complaint in this action; that
said minor child is of the age of
years and months; that a few days
prior to commencement of this action,
at the office of affiant, in the city of
Butte, Mont, in conversation with
the DldluIlll lSltiil III ItIdllOli W lHt
care and custody of said child, said
plaintiff voluntarily, and upon her own
motion. said to defendant: You can
take the child; he looks like you; he
acts like you; he is your brat; you
can take him and do as you please
with him. Whereupon affiant left his
office in company with plaintiff, and
they walked together to the corner of
Main and Broadway, Butte, Mont,
where they parted forever. Aftiant pro-
ceeded to his home in search of said
minor child. and found said minor
child in cold, hungry, famished con-
dition, on the street near his home:
that the house of affiant was securely
locked, and the only means of en-
trance thereto was through a cellar
through which defendant was compell-
ed to go for the purpose of opening
ing the door on the inside to admit the
minor child, to procure for him warmth
and food; that affiant solemnly de-
clares, in the presence of his God that
the foregoing facts are true in every
and we'll known to he so