Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-21
COURT CAN rAEE CHILDREN
Juvsni Authlrit.si Have Power 10 Cor
troll Wnsrs Parents Live in SqaRIcr.
DECISION RekDiR,D BY WO5t SUTTON
Mothers who Reside in Burnt Dis
trict " eep when Compelled TO
Give Ip Their lit
tie Ones,

The Juvenile court has the power 20 take
children away from parents who persist
in keeping them in unwhoesome or inn
moral surroundings according TO the de-
cision Of Judge Sutton Saturday morning
in the case OF Mrs. Rcsenthal. who lives
at Eleventh and Dodge streets. Judge SUI
ton ordered her five children be sent e. The
Detention school until she provides a place
for them outside what is known as the
red light" district.
Protesting she was too poor TO move,
Mrs Rosenthal appeared in court with two
attorneys. Ed p Smith and Duncan NJ
Ninsonhaler to fight the case for her. Both
attorneys appeared to be very much az
fected and tears rolled down their cheeks
as they made their plea to the court. Judge
Sutton was firm in his position however
and declared 1t to be within the rover of
the Juvenile court to remove children f.om
immoral influences. He told Mrs. Roscnthal
she could have the children back as soon
as she had provided quarters in a respscta-
BILE neighborhood
Character of Place bad
Many witnesses were sworn TO show the
character of the place and according to the
stories Of the officers the children were in
VIC hablN VI udlBiihs hibhiiu AhH l'AtN' Sti
ton to watch prisoners as they are taken
into the Jail one Of the boys was found
with bottle Of whisky on him which, it
is asserted. he stole from drug store.
Assistant Probation Officer Carver said he
had seen colored man give one Of the lit
tie girls money, when he interfered. 1t
was shown there were evil resorts sur
rounding the building in which Mrs. Rosen-
thai lived. The defense showed the chill
dren were unusually bright in school and
have good attendance records
Judge Vinsonhaler contended the court
instead OF taking the children out Of the
surroundings should order the dissclute
characters out of the neighborhood. Judga
Sutton insisted he had no power to do this
and declared he would not allow children
to remain in that neighborhood while walt
ing for another branch of the law to clean
II up
Mr. Smith gave notice he would take steps
to test the power OF the juvenile court in a
higher court either by appeal or habeas
corpus proceedings.
The children of Morris Tannebaum, who
lives at los South Tenth street. were also
ordered sent to the Detention school until
he finds a new home
VIII Not Burn BedbuRs that Way.
Earl Patterson, a little coored boy living
at 1901 Pierce street promised Judge SUIT
ton he would not build fires under the bed
to kill bed bugs any more if he were re-
leased. Earl was left at home with the
baby while his mother went away to work
and conceived the idea of depopulating the
bed upon which the baby was lying The
fumigation process appealed to him and he
lit a pile of rags under the bed. The neigh
hOrS ruShad In h,,,
OF water on the flames and then discov-
cred the baby. 1t was rescued without in
jury. Earl gave Judge Sutton his hand
that he would not play with fire any more.
s'If you see any more bed bugs" said
Judge Sutton, don't smoke them out; kill
them some other way"
Emmett Custer and wife. both of whom
were sent to the county Jail for thirty
days for drunkenness and neglectlng their
families, took a solemn oath before a num-
Der OF witnesses to quit drinking for two
years They were before the Juvenile court
on a charge OF neglecting the children. Ac-
cording to the testimony. both of them are
| accustomed to drink heavily. The children
were found by the probation officers at
/ home without anything to eat. Shortly be-
| fore this Mrs. Custer, while one Of the
babies was very Ill. attended Krug theater
[ WIN q AS JuSllHCdllOn OF nef
course she said II was "a particular friend
Of hers that she went with. The children
| did not go to Sunday school because she
and her husband Joined a club that held
meetings on South Sixteenth street on Sun
days After both OF them had signed the
pledge Judge Sutton said he would endea vor
to have them released from the county Jail
and promised the probation officers he
would assist them in finding the children a
home.
| a 16-month-od babe was taken away
from it's mother in a questionable resort at
1o1 South Ninth street Friday night az a
result Of the crusade of the probation Of
! ficials IN that part OF town The name of
the mother is withheld but IL is said she
is the wife Of railroad conductor living
! In Los Angeles She said she was visiting
a woman she knew years ago and who Is
living at the place. She said she did not
| know the nature of the house The child
will be returned to her when she leaves for
home.