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MUST KEEP AWAY
FROM CELESTE.
INJUNCTION AGAINST CURRIE
WILL STAND FOR SIX YEARS IN
TIL THE GIRL Is OF AGE.

During That Time, Unless the Court
Decides Otherwise, Currie Must
Not Telephone, Telegraph, or
Write TO Her or "By Any Sign,
Signal, Scheme or Device Make
His Thoughts Known to Her-The
story of Currie's Troubles Re-
bearsed to Judge Cam.
Judge Cam yesterday morning made
permanent the temporary injunction
granted last Monday, restraining D.
E. Currie from having any communi-
cation with 15-year-old Celeste Creigh-
ton.
The injunction, the court decided,
is to hold until it shall have been dis
solved by action in court of equity, or
in case this action is not taken, until
the girl Celeste is 81 years of age.
When the case was called Attorney
Charles Edwards appeared for Currie,
and Attorney Simon N. Gazan for
Mrs. Creighton. The evidence. which
was entirely by affidavit, was for the
most part a rehearsal of the testimony
before Justice Charles V. Hohenstein.
The new features were the counter aft
davit of Alma Bailey, and the affidavit
of Celeste Creighton.
The first move by the defense was
the submitting of a demurrer to the
petition. The principal ground urged
why the injunction should be dismiss
ed, was that the acts had been COM
mitted, and that therefore, they could
not be restrained. Furthermore, it
was urged. there was no declaration
that the acts complained of were like
ly to be continued, and that therefore
an injunction was useless.
The demurrer was overrued by the
court without any reply having been
made to Mr.. Edwards argument by
Mr.. Gazan. The cause then proceed
ed and the submission of affidavits be-
gan.
Ruled Out One AFFIDAVIT.
Mr.. Edwards submitted afidavits of
Curries good character and a general
sstatement from him of the cause of
the trouble. Currie's affidavit claimed
that the mother had asked him why
he did not marry the girl and that he
had replied because she was too young.
He also denied any intention to do
the girl harm.
The affidavit of young Morgan, the
principal witness used to substantiate
the blackmail charge. stated that he
had been present when Mrs. Creighton
offered to drop the matter for $50 and
threatened to prosecute if Currie did
not pay her the money.
Mr.. Edwards then offered an afi-
davit from Mrs. Porter, rejecting on
the character of the petitioner. Mr.
Gazan, who had seen a copy of the
affidavit before the trial, objected to
ats introduction on the ground of ir-
relevancy. The court took the paper
read it, and then ruled it out.
Mr.. Edwards submitted the affidavit
OF Alma Bailey, stating that Currie
had not Influenced the girl, Celeste, nor
had he induced her to stay in Atlanta
The defense then rested.
Affidavit of Celeste.
The strongest evidence for the state
was the affidavit of the girl, Celeste.
In her statement she told of Currie's
offers of marriage, of his promise to
keep her 'in luxury and ease" if she
would only leave her mothers roof, of
his asking her to stay over in Atlanta
and of sending her return tickets to
Savannah.
Here he had repeated his offers of
support, she said, and had advised her
not to return to her mother, where she
was i'll treated. He had given her
money to pay her board and prepare
tons were under way to take her from
the city when the arrests were made
by Detective Bostick
The affidavit stated that the girl,
having been raised in convent, knew
little of the ways of the world and of
men, and Currie's promise to keep her
in luxury and ease and "dazzled her
young mind" and lead to an estrange-
ment between herself and her mother.
Sprung COunter-Amdnvit.
A surprise came when Mr.. Gazan Of
fered a counters affidavit from Alma
Bailey. This was written out on the
back of the copy of the first affidavit
of the girl that had been offered by
Mr. Edwards.
The Bailey girl stated that when she
made the first affidavit it had been
shown to her in a store lin the pres
ence of a crowd of people; that she
had not read it's contents carefully.
and did not fully understand to what
she was swearing. The statements in
the AFFIDAVIT. she said, were not sup
piled by her. On the contrary, she al
legged that Currie had been the cause
of the trouble between the girl and
her mother; that he knew both girls
were going to Atlanta; that he had
asked Celeste to return to Savannah,
ana had ADVISED her not to return to
her mother. He had also paid her
board while here after the return from
Atlanta.
Injunction Made Permanent
This closed the evidence for the state
and Immediately after Judge Cam an
nounced that he would make the in
junction permanent. The mother, he
held. was the guardian Of her child, and
entitled TO take full charge of her and
that any interference whatever was il
legal.
Under the terms of the injunction
for six years. after which Celeste will
be of age, Currie cannot communicate
with her either by telephone, tele-
graph, note, letter, nor by any whistle.
signs signals, or any schemes and de-
vices whatsoever, whereby his thoughts
and will may become ineligible to the
said Celeste"