The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-29
BOY
FLED FROM
HIS FATHER

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his further escape was prevented, for one
Of the elevator men. hearing the noise,
dashed out of his cage aud caught the boy
on the floor below.
Even then the boy would not go with his
father and It was finally found necessary
to secure a cab, and in this the boy. his
father and step-sister, with Lawyer Ham
ilton, Of New York, and another friend,
succeeded In getting the boy to a rail-
road depot. where a train was taken for
New York.
Mrs. browne was dashingly attired in
court today and seemed buoyed up by
some hopeful thought. On Wednesday
last she was just the opposite. She APP
peared unsettled, and at times sorrowfui.
When her lawyer opened the proceed
ings It was by asking couns fees for
the wife. Nothing was said of the wife
being poor, as her husband had settled
s1O,0 600 on her prior to her flight to South
Dakota, where she secured an alleged
divorce.
Lawve, Corbin. for the husband said
that the Chancery Court had no power
to grant counsel fees in habeas corpus
proceedings.
v~ice-Chancellor Stevens made a short
resume of the case, and pointed out that
1t was a peculiar case In law, and he
could not recall when any such point had
previously been raised and he would with
hold his opinion.
When Mrs. Brownies counsel asked to
be recompensed for the debts incurred by
her In support of the son, another hitch
occurred. The Vice-Chancellor said that
when a wife as her husbands agent had
incurred dehts then the husband was re-
sponslble.
But here is a case said the Vice
Chancellor, where the wife has repudiated
this. She says now that she is not Mr..
Brownies wife. She went away and Sc
cured a divorce in South Dakota and now
makes her claim that she is not Mr..
Brownies wife. If that is so then she has
wilfully denied thai she is her husbands
agent. But | will take this point under
consideration and leave the matter OPEN
Mr.. browne was asked to give bonds In
the sum of $4,000 as guardian of the boy
pending the divorce suit. One item in the
agreement seemed to nettle Mrs. browne.
She want,d specific times stated when she
was to nave access to her son, her hus-
band desiring to let her see the boy only
at his pleasure. Vice-Chancellor Stevens
suggested that lawyers for both sides con-
suit. Mrs. browne remained In the cour'
room with her boy and mother until hei
lawyers called her.
When the lawyers re-entered the court
Mr.. Corbin, for the husband, said he
would not permit Mrs. browne taking the
boy from New York State, nor to remain
away from his fathers home over night
Mr.. McDermott, ounse for Mrs. browne
asked that the boy be given to his mother
on Saturday and be allowed to remain
until Sunday.
II don't think the child ought to b.
taken out of New York. said the Vice
Chancellor.
Lawyer McDermott interiected a re
mark: ..A
Il don't think The boy should be brough
out of New Jersey"
After further ~wrangling 1t was fnall,
settled that Mrs. browne should see he
boy in New York city every Saturda,
from 10 a. m. until 6 p. m. and on anothe
week day from 0 p. m. to 5 p. m, upol
Mrs. Brownies giving her husband
twenty-four hours notice as to her inten
tio1 of calling for the boy
Young browne was told to don his over
coat and get ready to leave with hi
father. He did 80, but went back to hi
, mother, and. his head on his mothers LAP
sobbed. His mother did the same, an
the father. from across the lawyers table
looked or. The attempt to escape fol
| lowed this. y