The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-09
BACHELOR WANTS HIS CHILD.
THE MOTHER WON'T MARRY HIN
TO LEGITJMATIZE HER.
Charles Bell Barker Il the Plaintiff and
Adelaide Gertrude Sirinser Is the
Defendant--Bnrkcr says She Has Vio-
lated Agreement 10 behave Herself.

Adelaide Gertrude Slrlnsef Is INC
Defendant Barkcr says She Has Vio-
lated Agreement 10 behave Herself
Charles Bell Barker, n bachelor, living
In the Marlborough Hotel. obtained from
Supreme Court Justice Bowling Yesterday
n writ of habeas corpus, retuIrable tins
morning, requiring Adelaide Gertrude
! Suinger 10 produce In court their four
yeur-old Legitimate child, called Adelaide
Oueenie Barker. Barker wants TO obtain
possession of the child. and aGeges that her
mother is no longer propes person to have
chlrge Of her.
barker says the chile lives With her mother
| too West Fifty second street. He says that
| Ia tho summer of 1901 he and the atrinGor
woman entered into contract by whit h
he greed to allow her IS coo year, payat 10
In quarterly installments, and she, on the
other hand agreed to conduct herself IN a
"ehaste, virtuous, proper and decent man
ner,' and to care for. clothe and properly
educate the child In june. 1904. they
agreed to reduce the annual payment to
s., 500 and, at the same time. Barker re-
lieved her Of the cost Of all household neces-
sites.
Barker GAYS that July 70 last she went
to Europe. taking the child with her, ard
left her with relatives in Liverpool. where
she visited her twice a month, herself liv-
inf in London.
While she was in London. Barker alleges.
she took UP with Francis Z. Reid, manager
Of the Eleanor Robson company, and her
conduct In London was noisy obstreper~
Gus and hoisterous. She came lack,on the
Deutschland, as Reid did. The child had
been sent ahead on another beat, in charge
of nurse Barker says, on the authority
OF Miss Dewey. who he says Is Miss
Robson's maid, that Miss Strtnger behaved
in noisy, loud and boistcrOus manner on
the chip. and that she wes at all times sur
| rounded by at least half dozen Of the
| boys
since her return to New York, Barker
says. she has assumed several names.
/ To those who are ignorant Of the existence
/ Of the child, she is Miss stringer; TO those
who know Of the little girl, she Ia Mrs
Stringer, and 70 persons who know the
/ father she is Mrs. Barker, a divorced wife.
| As a matter OF fact. he alleges, she has been
! travelling in Reds company and has lived
with him.
Barker continues in his affidavit Be-
/ fore the child was born, and upon several
occasions thereafter, I have proposed
marriage 10 her for the purpose Of !egia-
mauAng our child but upon every occasion
she has declared that she would not marry
the best man alive, preierring 70 lead a
! riotous and immoral life. she has also
| beer offered marriage by one Alfred King
and by the said Francis E Reid with whom
! she 10 nov unduly intimate, but has re-
peAtsdly- declined ell ofers Of marriage. -
I In conclusion Barker says that the child
: lie practically always ia the care OF nurse
+ and receives no motherly attention, while
the mother herself takes particular de-
light in conducting herself in an improper
and disorderly manner. She recently went,
he says, 10 Mrs Wheatcrofls dramatic
school on Fifth avenue, after informing
Z him that she intended 70 90 on the stage
and make name for herself She told
him then. he says shat she intended -
I put the child In convent
Barker therefore asks the court 70 direct
her 10 deliver up the child - him on the
ground that she Is neg.ecting her and Is no
longer a proper person 10 be inirusted
with her care. He says that he Is amply
able 10 educate aud care for the little girl,
whom he dearly loves and who exhibits
great affection for him He keeps bachelor
apartments at the Marlborough and he
SAYS. leads a respectable. moral life
Adelaide Gertrude stnnger is said 10
be remarkah ole for her good looks and fine
figure Barker is a man cf inherited wealth,
middle aged ana member II several
clubs He used to live in the Gilsey House
and is well known along Broadway