Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-12-22
Sensational Habeas Cor pus Case Which Involved Pine Bluff Baby Girl Recalled by Application
FOR CHANGE OF VENUE
Nathaniel F. Willis Says He Cannot Get Fair Trial-Reyiew of His Ef- forts to Get Possession of Daughter  of Local Women.

Ndtlldnlel r. " HIS, lofnef nus band of Mrs Hattie Bell Willis, of this city, yesterday applied to Judge R.J.Lea in the Pulaski circuit court for a change of venue to Pcrryville, Perry county, in the ease pending in that court in which he is charged with attempting to bribe a witness to commit perjury, it being alleged that he was trying to further his interests in a habeas corpus case which was on in the Little Rock court some months ago.
 Willis, in his application for g. change of venue, alleges that he cannot get a fair and impartial trial at the capital. The application was filed by his attorney, United States Senator Jeff Davis. The indictment referred to was published in The Graphic some four months ago, at the time the true bill was returned by the Pulaski county grand jury, notwithstanding the fact that g. local paper yesterday published the
 indictment as late news, stating that the application for change the indictment had been returned. More than a column was published in Tho (ro, in c.nunro1 vnnnthc relative to the charges and the final indictment of Willis.
 The application for change Of venue recalls the sensational habeas corpus case at Little Rock six months ago, at which time Willis, who has been divorced from his wife for several years, made an un- successful attempt to secure pos session of their five year old daugh- ter, Mary Laura Willis, who is liv- ing with her mother at the resi- dence of Harry Bell, the child's uncle, on East Sixth avenue in this city, where they have lived almost continually since the granting Of the divorce in Indiana several years ago. Z
 Willis lives at Indianapolis. where he nas a home for the cure of al coholics He has made many at tempts to secure possession of his daughter, who was awarded to the mother by an Indiana court. Habeas corpus cases have been heard in Indiana, Missouri and Arkansas in- volving the little girl.
 Each time that he went into the court his wife resisted his efforts to get her into his custody, and she was victorious. She moved from place to pla"e to avoid him and on one occasion, she says, he kidnapped the girl, and after locating the father and daughter she recovered her baby through habeas corpus proceedings
 Mrs. Willis finally moved to &c., attle, Washington, where she ac- cepted a position in real estate office. She lived with friends there. One day, while at work in the off, flee, a stranger called there to see her employer He said he came on a business mission, but Mrs Willis suspicioned him, and after she gathered up her baby and went to the home of a friend in a nearby city, she learned that the stranger had called to get a glimpse of her. He was a detective, she says, and was in the employ of her former bus band. She remained out of reach of detectives aid Willis, who made trip out west to locate her, for some weeks. She finally became alarmed and hurried as fast as trains could bring her, to Pine Blun, with her little girl. Here they were received by her brother.
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