The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-21
PICTURES ARE SHOWN
HENRY BULLOCK MAKES UNIQUE EN-
HIBITS IN AN AFFIDAVIT.
He Asks for Custody of His Child
Until the Case Is Settled
Other Court Cases.

Henry Bullock. who has a suit pending
in Judge McMaster's court, against his
wife. Jessie r. Bullock, and her parents.
William and Roxanna Robertson, for pos
session of his child. Flossie Bullock.
yesterday filed counter affidavit TO the
last one filed by the defendants. May IA.
and asks that the court give him the
custody of the child without further plead
ings, until final hearing of the case The
baby chair that has been the principal bone
of contention In the litigation is mentioned
in the affidavit. He formerly alleged that
the little girl refused TO have the chair he
had given her. A counter affidavit OF the
defendants set out that the child had out
grown the chair, and that was the reason
it was returned to the father.
To make his argument strong, Bullock,
in his affidavit, files photograph or the
little girl sitting in the chair which he
marks exhibit "F.' He calls the courts
attention to the fact that the child sits
comfortably in the chair with room to
spare. The photograph was taken June IL,
a month after the filing of the defendants
affidavit, and Bullock asserts the child did
not shrink any during that time. Robert
son was once fined cent and costs for as
saulting Bullock. and the defendants affi-
davit explained that the depletion of the
treasury was responsible for carpets not
being the floor of the room where Bull
lock was in the habit Of going to visit his
child. To show the exact situation in the
reception room, Bullock filed another pic
ture with his affidavit, marked exhibit
&C." and asks the court to notice bare
floor. block nailed on the floor to Keep
h ADn Is,trr h. Drln a N
room open and fiimsy curtain that acted
as the only partition between the rooms
at that opening.
Still another photograph is brought into
the argument. 1t is marked EXHIBIT ii,
and shows a network of wire and strings
alongside fence. Bullock says his daugh-
ter was in the habit of running along TINS
narrow space between the house and the
alley fence to kiss him goodbye when he
visited her, until June IA. Then he AYERS
wire was stretched across the opening 10
the narrow plot of ground, which he marks
as figure II" on the picture, for the alleged
purpose of preventing his daughter from
bidding him farewell in her usual manner.
He says the child undaunted,. crawled UNI
der the wire, and the next day an addi-
tional wire was put up which he marks
No stu LII ne says ms th enlia Game 10
city of strings and wirework was put up,
designated as 3 and "a which stopped
He asserts all this intricate network was
put up under the pretense of being sup
port for "sickly nasturtium."
Bullock alleges he has had much diff
Guilty in visiting his daughter and that the
child would not be permitted to see him,
if she could be prevented. He says at one
time when he visited her, he was compelled
to talk to her through window, and
when he tried to reach through the win
dow his wife pulled the sash down upon
his fingers. holding them between screen
and the sash with her entire weight. He
says he played with his daughter in this
position and that the child sat on basket
and amused herself by sticking her fingers
and toes through the crack between the
screen and window sash.
For all these reasons, he asks the court
to give him the child until the case is
heard.