Arizona republican., 1905-08-05
CUSTODY OF A CHILD
Continued From Page I.


vcrely criticizes. Necessarily there .
was no court order concerning the Gus I
tody of the children for which reason F.
Miss Rose acted surreptitiously in Sc
curing possession of her sister, for the
father. had he been aware Of her in
tention. could have prevented her by
merely laying a legal claim to the
child. Size has 20 fears but that her
mother can at once establish legal
claim when they get back 70 her home
in Maine.
Though there was no longer intimacy
between Mr.. Piper and his family they
had occasional knowledge Of each other
through PipeI's mother an elderly and
highly esteemed woman and through
his sister Mrs. Carrie Mullen of Dor
chester. Mrs. Mullen was on friendly
terms except for the col5ness that fol-
lowed through her interest in her
brothers affairs, until recently. when
she aided him in securing possession
of Lulu. Since the fathers desertion
Mrs. Piper, Rose. Lulu and another
daughter have lived together all par
ticipating in the family support, the
mother conducting a rOoming house
and Miss Rose being stenOgrapher..
Last December Lulu was attending
a business college in Bangor and late
one afternoon two men We're waiting
in q carriage at the college door when
she came out of the building. one OF
them called her by name and asked
her to come to him. When she ap-
preached he asked her to get into the
carriage with him. He was stranger
she was frightened. refused. ran nome
and the incident was forgotten for the
time being. on March when Lulu
Z chr say
her aunt and another person waiting
in a carriage by the walk and when
spoken to Lulu responded. Asked 10
get into The carriage she hesitated
when she says she was pulled into the
vehicle and rapidly driven away. ana
taken to the home OF her aunt IN Dor
chester. Ske held her peace partly
through promises that she would not
he harmed and partly through fear OF
making an outc-y. Her failure to re-
turn home threw the family into dread
and then into q fer that she Eau be1i
taken through intrigue OF her father
who Rose remembered, once MADE an
effort to get her to come and live Wit"
hin, Win this fear on her mind and
knowing that Mrs. Mullen knew
more about her father than
anvopa else she hurried -
Dorchester and presented herself at
tho home of her aunt. Mrs. Mullen
she says, very cooIly told her that she
had taken the child who was already
nv, bar way to her father somewhere
in the west She added that heF
brother had made an effort 10 get Ile
girl the preceding December ana had
tailed hut that she was much more
successful Whether she meant that
Mr.. Piper was east in December o.
had acted through others does not ap-
near and Lulu got such hasty
lyTfrnpse of the man who addressed her
in December that she can nO- no"
recognize her father certainly as De
ing the same man She saw him DuL
A moment and it was just before DARK
on a short winter day Wne1 rose
announced to her aunt her inJeatloa
of finding Lulu and bringing her nome
she SAYS her aunt told her II would
do no good for she would get her
again. Put of that Rose has no fear
The days heightened into weeks but
there vas no encouraging news until
Lulu was finally heard from in Fhoe-
nix with something of the story of the
way she got there. Then there was
immediate action and a recent joyful
meeting Of the sisters. When Rose
arrived Lulu told her another some
what startling incident of the story
She said that WQeN Rose Ccllcl a / III
home Of her aunt, she was i'm an ad-
Joining room. safely and securely lock-
ed and though she heard every word
her sister said, she was too badly
frightened to make an outcry. And
now she is enjoying her first happy
days since March End, on the way
home 10 mother and sisters, her heart
bounding with gratitude for Mr.. and
Mrs. Mealey who learned to love her
almost as one of their own children
I'm this sentiment she is fully joined
by her elder sister who gives them lull
credit for saving Lulu from poverty
and homeIessness and the possible
dangers that follow in their wake.
I'm order that the story might be
fairly stated on both sides, Mr.. Piper
was seen and asked to give his version
of it. He seemed to have little inter-
est in the matter and at first replied
that he had nothing to say Presum-
ing that he was not aware of all The
details that had been given to the puD-
lie he was told that the story vas
current that the girl had been taken
from her home by his sister. Asked
if that were true he replied that It
certainly- was n correct statement and
his sister had taken her at his insti-
cation. He then added that he had
been in occasional correspondence
with Lulu and that she had on VarI-
Gus occasions written TO him and
asked him to take her away and that
Te had these letters i'm his possession
i'm her own handwriting. He said he
finally received a letter from her say
ing that. conditions were Unb arabic At
home and that shc wished he would
.tals-. her avay before 2hc dtd some
thing desperate. Thereupoa he wrote
his sister TO take the first boat to