The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-01
VEIL OF MYSTERY
NOT YET LIFTED
AS TO THE WADE CHILDREN.
MRS. PAULINE WADE CAME HERE
TO CONSULT JUDGE TWIGGS.

Lawyer Advised Her to Go to In.
diana and Institute HabeaS Corpus
Proceedings Judge Twiggs Be-
neves She Followed Advice-DOe'
Not Think II Was Case of Kidnap-
ping - Nothing Was said Then
About tho Count.
mo need to answer you by wire. VIII
write"
This Is a copy of a telegram receiv-
ca yesterday morning from A. B. Wade
Of Otis. Ind, the son of Mr.. and Mrs
Robert J. Wade of Savannah, the grand
parents of the children said to have
been carried 10 Europe by the Countess
de Koenig, better known here as Mrs
Pauline Wade.
The grandpare nts had the custody OF
ehs children. but had turned them
over to their son. A. B. Wade. His
telegram simply adds mystery to an
already puzzling case.
Mother Has Children
That the children are in the custody
OF their mother, Mrs. Wade, the grand
mother, is now certain, since receiving
the telegram from her son. How the
children were obtained is still mat
ter of doubt. The grandmother is still
hoping that they have not been car
risd TO Europe. but is considerably
exercised as TO their welfare.
"Of all people, 1 did not want the
mother to get the children" Mrs.
Wade said.
Judge II. d. D. Twiggs, who was at
3orney for Mrs. Pauline Wade in both
of the court proceedings here to try to
get the children, says the present
Countess came to Savannah about six
or eight months ago to consult with
him in regard to making another effort
to get her children.
Mrs. Wade was then keeping q
boarding house in Atlanta, as was also
The case when the court proceedings
were pending here. During the trial,
however. Mrs. Wade boarded in Sa-
vannah with Mrs. s. Ramsay, Judge
Twiggs says, the lady who wrote the
letter 30 the Morning News from New
York. telling of the departure of the
Count and Countess, and children.
Advised Fight in Indiana.
Judge Twiggs says upon Mrs. Wade's
last visit here, he advised her to go
quietly to Indiana, secure a lawyer
and institute habeas corpus proceed
ings. Mrs. Wade was then without
means and could not at once act upon
that advice. Judge Twiggs says she
was saving all the money she could
from her Atlanta boarding house in
order to institute the proceedings.
Though Judge Twiggs has heard
nothing of the matter for some time.
he is confident that Mrs. Wade acted
upon his advice. She had tried to get
him to go to Indiana to take out the
habeas corpus, but he advised her that
it would be cheaper to secure one of
the Indiana lawyers.
Judge Twiggs believes the mother
got the children legally from their I'M
Gle. ANY court in the land would de-
eide a mother has more right to her
children than an uncle" he said, in
speaking of the matter. and l am con-
hdent they were given to Mrs. Wade
legally"
Charges Against Mrs. Wade.
Judge Twiggs says the charges that
were made against Mrs. Pauline
Wade's character were never substan-
tiated. Her husband, just before his
death, wrote her a letter, generating
her entirely, Judge Twiggs states. THE
letter was an affectionate one," said
Judge Twiggs, land expressed the hope
that she would be given the children"
Mrs. Wade said nothing to Judge
Twiggs about getting married, and her
former attorney is as much in the
dark In regard to the Count as any
one else. Mrs. Robert Wade cannot
believe that her daughter-in-law has
married a real Count.
"A real foreign nobleman!-I don't
believe it," she said. why. those for
eigners usually look for heiresses, and
she didn't have any money. Then the
two children can't believe it,"