The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-24
ANA MARTA MAKES ACHANGE
JAVANESE GIRL DECIDES TO
LEAVE THE STONES.

Ihey Brought Her Up From the Island.
but Her Preference IL Ar for Another
Family kew-she Has IN Imagtna-
ton which Tells Her She's Abused.
Ana Marta doesn't have to live with
Mrs. Eveleigh G. Stone any more. 60 de-
eided Justice Stapleton In the Supreme
Court. Brooklyn. yesterday, and the tiny
nineteen-year-old daughter Of far Java
is as happy as a little wild girl can be In q
crowded land. II is true that William II.
Stone. president Of the Porto Rico Coffee
Company, insisted that Ana go back home
with him and his wife ON pain Of mourning
the ~displeasure Of the Dutch Government,
but the diminutive Javanese buried her
cream colored complexion. chanting black
brows and the reddest lips In Mrs. Efie
Hepkins's bosom and olung there while
Justice Stapleton decided that personal
privilege supersedes international law.
Mrs. Hopkins is the vile NJ John G.
Hopkins, an insurance broker with offices
at 70 William street. Manhattan, She
wanted to take Ana home with her to l1&l
Dean street and Ana wanted to 60. for
Ana inherits the adventurous disposition
of a piratical Malay ancestry. But the
Stones. having brought her all the way
from Java with the permission al her
mother and the sanction OF the Dutch
Government, wanted to take her back to
l2e Columbia Heights whore she bad lived
as a sort Of child servant on a monthly
allowance Of 81 since disembarking In
January, 1904. That vas why Ana was
In court on q writ Of habeae corpus that
described her bondage.
1t wasn't the first time that Ana had
been Ia court. About a year ago she
slipped away from the home Of the Stones
and went to the Adams street police court,
where she sobbe1 out a story about being
beaten and held q prisoner. She was re-
turned to the Columbia street address
o q summons was served on hor mis-
tress. Mrs. Stone explained that the
child did no more work than was good
for her was treated more like a daughter
than a servant and that abe just simply
had Z O smack her once In q great while
when she was bad.
Tha / explanation satisfied the Magis-
trate, but Ana has a temper and a will
Of her OWE behind her big wondering
eyes. Periodically she ran away. and no
late than last June was %returned to her
home by Police Captain Pinkerton. It
began to get on Mr.. Stones erves n he
and Leonora yijisano, his Spanish servant,
decided to part. for Mrs. Stone whispered
him that Lecnora was telling the little
Javanese wha. q big, grand country this
United States 10 and how mocey and fun
waiteif for the ambitious. After the Span
ish girl had gone TO work at 20 Willow
street Ana's ambition for a time didn't
trouble the Stones 80 much.
Then came F. II. Jones, attorney-at-
law, IS Nassau street. Manhattan Mr..
Jones roomed In the house and talked
to Ana, and she was very anxious to talk
for her tongue Is just as quick and restless
as her little yellow hands. She told him
how the Stones had spirited her away
from her pretty island home-she has O
vivid imagination-how they made her
work and didn't give her enough to eat.
and O lot of other things. But Mr.. Jones
interested the Hepkinses and III writ
followed.
Mr.. Stone said that prior to 1908 he had
lived In Java a an agent OF the concern
Of which he Is now head and TIA IN No
him Ana Martha whose prettiness had
won his wife's heart. The tiny maid
had been given to him by her mother. a
servant employed In his household. MIR.
Stone said the first monthly allowance
Of a had been turned over to her. but
that she invested the whole In candy and
that since then his wife regularly has
placed the money in a bank to Ana's
credit.
Justice Stapleton finally said that the
girl was old enough to decide for hereeh
and that no n had a right to hold her
against her will. He asked her whether
ahe wanted to return totMrs. Stone. men
tioning the fact that she seemed to be
well treated and that all the money she
earned was properly s~afeguarded. Ana's
head shook so emphaticaily that her
ders. A general guardian will be APP
pointed tomorrow.