The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-12-22
ACTRESS WANTS
HER CHILD.
Peculiar Case. Brought to At
tentiOn of Authorities.
AN ACTION IN COURT
Taken BY Woman who Has Been De-
prived of the Society of Her on
spring Father Resided
In Canton.

One Of the leading ladies of the
Blondell and Fennessey "Katzenjam-
mer Kids" company oficiated in a
drama in real life in the probate court
of this city Tuesday. The lady is Mrs.
Bertha Overcasher, wife of Harry
| Overcasher. She appears on the stage
as Miss Bertha. Her husband is an
actor and does work on the horizontal
bar. He is now in New York and is
very sick.
The other characters in the legal
drama are William Overcasher, Eliza
beth, his wife and Ida his daughter,
who works in the Empire photograph
gallery. William Overcasher is the
father of Harry. lie lives at 6O9 Ma
honing street and works at the Ault-
man shop. For the past two years
little Bertha Leona Overcasher, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Over
cashier, has been staying at home Of
it's grandparents in this city. The
mother would occasionally have the
child brought to her for few days and
then she would be returned to Canton
The trouble now is over the possession
of the baby and the mother went into
probate court Tuesday morning and got
writ of habaes corpus to get posses
sion Of little Bertha.
The mother was seen by a News
Democrat reporter at noon. She had
just returned from a trip with the sher-
iff to the Overcasher residence where
they took possession of the child.
She said that owing to the fact that
both she and her husband were on the
road they had been leaving the child
here with it's grandparents. She has
been paying it's board every week and
keeping it in clothes. Last week she
was playing in Toledo and she sent for
them to bring little Bertha there for
week. Miss Ida Overcasher took the
child up but did not want to leave it for
a whole week. The ...other kept it
however, and when the company ar
rived in Canton Monday she took ii
back up to the Overcasher home. In
the afternoon she says she went up and
the Overcashers told her she could not
have the child any more; that they pro.
posed to keep it and If she wanted to
see 1t any more she would have to coma
there. They also refused, she said, to
take the pay for the childs further
keep. Mrs. William OvercIsher the
mother and the child, got on the street
car and came down town. At the square
the mother got out and was about to
take the little daughter when her
stopped her and would
not let the child 60 Mrs. Harry Over
cashier says the grandmother told her
then that she could never see the child
any more The grief stricken mother on
Tuesday morning, went to the office of
j. j. Grant and A. Agler ard enlisted
their assistance. A petition in habaes
corpus was drawn up and taken at once
before Judge Wise. The court armed
the sheriff with a writ and he went
down and after some parleying the
baby was turned over. The sheriff put
little Bertha in care Of her mother at
the Yohe hotel until the case could be
heard this afternoon.
The little one is a beautiful child 2
years and months old. The mother is
a very attractive little lady. She SAYS
she got word from her husband this
and that she was told to co
and get the child.