The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28
BOY SHRINKS
FROM MOTHER
Raymond Lewis Objects to
Courts Order Taking Him
FrOmAlleged Grandmother

For a few minutes before the noon
hour yesterday Judge Kerrigan's
courtroom resounded with boyish
walls and the desk over which judi
cial mandates are passed daily was
splashed with the tears of a lad who
resented the courts order giving him
into the custody of his father and
mother.
Raymond Henry Lewis. II years Of
age, wept bitterly and cried insistent-
ly that he wanted to stay with grand
ma" who is Mrs. Lizzie Mulick, and
who, it was proved, is no relation to
the boy, although for thirty years she
! has passed as the mother of Mrs.
! Lewis, an actress the boys mother.
Two weeks ago when Mrs. Lewis
! wanted to take her son to- Alameda
for two weeks outing the youngster
suddenly disappeared. 1t was brought
to light that Mrs. Mulick had taken
Mrs. Lewis from an orphan asylum in
1872. This disclosure and the pur-
pose of the Mulicks to keep the boy,
who had lived with them since baby
hood, determined the parents to apply
to the courts for his possession, and
habeas corpus proceedings were COM
menced by Attorney Henry H. Davis.
Mrs. Mulick and her husband, Will
liam, both declared under oath that
they had nothing to do with spiriting
the child away and did not know
where he was. Judge Kerrigan did
not believe them and ordered Mulick
| to produce the boy in court at 1880
yesterday morning under penalty OF
punishment to be made for kidnap-
( ing.
Mulick was little late, but he
brought the boy. The little fellow,
neatly dressed and strongly resem-
bling his mother, sat beside the man he
/ had called grandfather" until the
moment when Judge Kerrigan grant
ed the motion of Attorney Davis to
give the boy into the custody of his
parents. The lad was then called for
ward.
REJECTED MOTHER.
He walked straight to the Judges
side and Davis said, Mrs. Lewis,
come take your boy" The mother
rushed eagerly forward but the lad
shrank from her and walled, NO, no.
l don't want her; l want to go to my
grandma" Mulick sat immobile.
Mrs. Lewis burst into tears and the at
torney called upon the father to come
and take the boy. The youngster also
refused to have anything to do with
his paterhal parent and was deaf TO
his entreaties.
Judge Kerrigan withdrew into his
chambers and Court Clerk John b.
Reilly and Bailiff Neil Duffy, together
with the attorneys, newspaper men
and spectators attempted to show the
boy that the order of the court was
for his own good. He was obdurate
and resentful. To his father he said,
L don't want to go with you; l know
how it will be; in d week I'll get a /
licking" The father promised that
the boy would never be whipped by
him. Then the youngster said that
he wanted to see his grandmother.
Lewis said, I'm take you to see her
some dav.'
Il know about that some day" re-
torted the boy; lit will never come"
Duffy held up the pleasures of life
with younger brother as a playmate
and said that the father would teach
Raymond to swim. why, your lit
tie brother knows how to SWIM said
the bailiff. No, he don't and 1 know
he don't know how to swim, was the
lads rejoinder. The case commenced
to look hopeless for parents and
peacemakers when the lad, under pro-
test, agreed TO accompany his father
and mother across the bay.
HOW HE WAS HIDDEN.
When questioned Raymond gave
additional light to the story told by
Mulick regarding the boys removal
from the home of S. S. Storey on the
Sunday evening after he was spirited
away from home. He said that after
Mulick took him from the house, they
were met on the sidewalk by a man
named Smith, to whom Mulick spoke.
Smith took the boy to his home and
kept him there until yesterday. The
man, his wife and two children COM
posed the family. The boy could not
or would not tell where they lived.
In the stories of the cruelties of the
Mulicks to their charges confederation
was afforded by the statement of Mrs
Lewis, who said that she was fire.
quently beaten and even now carries
the scars of a rope lashing applied to
her bare back. Roy Lewis, the younger
son, says that when he and his broth
ed did something demanding punish
ment the whilom grandparents would