The evening world., 1902-11-17
Fell on Her Knees, Fearing Her
Uncle Was Going to Take
Boy of Eleven, His Son, Her
Cousin, from Her Side.
AN AUNT HAD THE CHILD.
Little Chap shrank from Parent and
Sister Who Wanted to Take Him
Away After Four Years In His
New Home.

Eleven-year-old' Eugene A. Riker. SAD
and fearful, was the subject Of legal
contention among his relatives before
Justice Fitzgerald In the Supreme Court
to-day. when his sister. Annabel Riker
just twice his age. sought by writ OF
habeas corpus to wrest him from his
aunt, Sarah Louise Allen. OF No. 25l
West Twenty-second street. who has
given him a home sine his mother
died. when he was four years old.
Little Eugene. in a fine suit OF dark
blue. with knee trousers. white vest
n white bow tie. was brought to court
by Mrs. Aliens comely daughter Agnes
to whom he chung desperately. and Rev.
R. S. Inglis. OF the Third Presbyterian
Church.
Shrank from His Father.
When he spied his father. Edward
Sire Rlker. for the first time in four
years, the little fellow burst into tears
and shrank into the folds OF Miss
Aliens skirt.
Riker had a sparse beard and hair
OF a and looked u~nprosperous. He
came forward and tried TO draw the
boy from his pretty cousins side.
She clutched hin all the tighter.
The little fellow cried. Miss Allen,
thinking he was going to take the child.
cell on her knees and chrieked hyster-
1calTy until a court officer restored
order.
IT want to stay with auntIe,'' Sob
bed the little fellow, digging his eyes
with his kid-gloved hands.
DO you think my. father can get
him away from us?" asked Herbert
Riker: nineteen years old, of an Even
ing World reporter, teartuuy. "He
has done nothing for us since our
mother died. Ny aunt has given us a
home. My sister Annabel left us eig 1T
thinE?"
In her petition the sister recites the
formal declaration thar the little fell
low is detained by his aunt against
his will and she is deprived of his
company, and describes the sister as
his general guardian in New Jersey.
Sister Named m Guardian.
The return to the writ says the father
u unfit and unable to care for the
lad and that the sister got herself APP
purpose Of this writ, She lives at Rose
Justice Fitzgerald sent all hands to a
the testimony taken. BY this time there
were twenty partizans on each side,
n they ranged on opposing sides OF
OtSlOBEdpHeT james MEANS 8 once.
"Ill call Capt. William NJ. DAILY, OF
the Newark police, as my first witness"
announced Mathew ]. Ready. attorney
FOR the dark-eyed sister W no applied
for the writ.
Some Startling Testimony.
''Thank God. my poor mother died
before his DISGRACE fen upon usi"
exclaimed Herbert Riker.
Capt. DAILY testified that he raidedl a
observation-disclosures in South street, New
ark, April 10. 1887. and lugged six wom-
en- some men to the station-house
The proPrietress. he said. was Miss
Louise Allen. and he Identified the gray
paired aunties OF the Rikers children as
his prisoner.
Mrs. Allen clawed the air frantically
and seemed about to faint or have a At.
Little Eugene cried pdteously and Her
bert paced the floor and swung his arms
threaten!ngly. declaring he would punch
somebody unnamed.
The lawyer read an indictment OF Mrs.
Allen by the Essex County Grand Jury.