The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-12-14

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Mother-Love Triumphant.
But mere legal verbiage can't do
stroy or root out mother-love. Despite
her failings, Mrs. Smith loves the lit
tie ones she brought into the world.
She is hungry for them; she wants
to take them to her heart again and
hear them whisper Mother"
But the court has made its decree.
She must not see them. Under the
law she is not regarded as a fit per-
son to bring them up. But she finds
them somehow, and of she runs with
them-she has learned from the court
to be a kidnaper.
She knows her lesson we'll
Judges may sit and sit, and expound
the law to its last letter, but fathers
and mothers have different code.
They are learning to kidnap now.
Railway train, automobile, horses,
yachts-all have been used to kidnap
children. 1t is anything to get the lit
tie ones out of the state where the d.
vorce is granted, for then 1t means
delay-more law and more court de-
cisions. Meanwhile the kidnaper has
the children.
And there has never been a convic-
tion for this kind Of kidnapping. Wrong
as they be, no father or mother who
has stolen back child-and hundreds
have done so-has ever gone to prison.
More children are kidnapped In the
United States every year by father or
mother than by all those criminals who
steal children for ransoms or revenge.
And the lesson is learned in the d.
vorce court.
After a Runaway Marriage.
Mrs. Clarke is the divorced wife of
Capt. Forrest c. Clarke, a civil en-
gineer employed by the Metropolitan
Steamship company. Capt. Clarke's
father is Boston millionaire, and his
wife was Miss Maude Buchanan. Of
Dorchester, suburb Of Boston. They
ran away and were married seven
years ago.
A little boy, George, was born, and
the mothers heart rejoiced. Then
there came rumors Of this thing and
that, and it ended in divorce. Capt.
Clarke had known and liked DIR. Carle-
ton C. Kremer while both were stu
dents at Harvard, and husband and
wife would be just the people to take
care of little George. So DR.. and Mrs.
Kremer adopted little George, then a
boy of four, and Surrogate Fitzgerald
signed the formal order.
DR.. Kremer allowed the mother to
see her little boy once week, and for
a time Mrs. Clarke obeyed strictly the
orders of the court.
Meanwhile DIR. and Mrs. Kremer had
become greatly attached to the boy.
One day when Mrs. Clarke was with
him they caught her stealing out OF
the house with the child.
II can't live without him." she wept;
80 please don't blame me-"
DIR. Kremer explained as gently as
he could that she must be more cir
cumspect, even II she did love him, for
the court had formally given the little
fellow into his possession. In fact, he
had been rechristened and was then
and is now-Carleton Clarke Kremer.
Regalned Her Boy.
Mrs. Clarke went away, greatly agi-
tated. The following Sunday she called
again to see the boy and found that he
was with the physicians. sister at the
home Of DIR. Kremer's mother. No. 134
West One Hundred and Twelfth street.
She went there in a carriage and wait
ed outside. Then DIR. Kremers sister
came out with the boy and took Lex
ington avenue car down to Sixty-fifth
street, where DIR. Kremer lives. Mrs.
Clarke had a carriage up the block.
AS the boy got OF the car with his
adopted aunt. Mrs. Clarke rushed for
ward and literally tore the child from
the astonished woman. In a jiffy she
had him in the carriage and away she
whisked. There was a woman friend
with her, who promptly seized Miss
Kremer and gave Mrs. Clarke plenty OF
time to escape with her boy.
A few hours later and Mrs. Clarke
was safe on her way to Boston
aboard the steamer Harvard. oddly
enough a vessel belonging to the com
pany in which her divorced husband
is employed.
Mother-love had won the victory
Mrs. Clarke had her boy despite all
the forms OF law. Mrs. Clarke had
learned her kidnapping lesson from the
divorce court.
Mrs. Hanna's Victory.
Then there was the famous case oi
the Hannas. Mrs. Dan r: Hanna; wife
Of the SON OF the late Senator Mark
Hanna, was forbidden by the courts
Of Ohio to take the children out OF
their jurisdiction. For an answer she
promptly took the three boys straight
10 New York. hid herself In the Hol
land house, escaped from q little host
Of deputy sherifls ana process servers
and calmly sailed for Europe, despite
Ali the decrees of the court.
sshc had learned her lesson. Mother
love rose above the mandates Of the
law. Ind she has won, too. >she had