The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-19
SICK CHILD
TORN FROM
MOTT HER
PlTlFUL SCENE AT THE CHGSA,
PEAkE RESTAURANT.
Authorities Forcibly Separate Mrs.
Prestin From Dora and Take Lit
tie Girl to Hospital.

Mrs. Preston Is TO commence legal
action against the city physician and
the police department for forcibly TAX.
Ing her child from her.
Developments came thick and fast
in the Prestin case yesterday and last
night. Little Dora Prestin, or Bel
knap, as her real name is, is being
we'll cared for at the Ogden Genef al
hospital and while extremely i'll was
reported last evening as resting
much easier than when she was taken
there. Until late hour last night the
mother OF the girl was confined in a
cell at the police station, where she
was taken by officers after she had
put up hard fight to prevent her child
being taken from her Tho Martha
society OF ogden interested itself in
the case yesterday morning and ap-
pointed committee composed of Mrs
DR.. Condor, Mrs. Clara Patterson and
Mrs May Scowcroft to investigate the
report that the Prestin woman was deS-
titute and in need of assistance and
after looking into the affair decided
that the little girl must be taken from
the place on Twenty-Gfth street to more
suitable quarters. They arranged for
rooms in the building formerly occu-
pied by the State Journal and were to
have taken the family there this morn
ing In the meantime Dr. Pidcock pre-.
vailed upon Mrs. Prestin to allow him
to nave the little girl removed to the
hospital An ambulance was called
and the girl, accompanied by her
mother, was taken to the hospital
Once there, Mrs. Prestin insisted upon
remaining with the child all the time
and on being refused created a small
riot in the 1Urtherance of ner wishes.
She refused to allow her child TO re-
main at the hospital unless she could
also remain, and finally both the child
and herself were taken back to the
Chesapeake restaurant on Twenty
fifth street, When DR.. PidcoclI was In
formed Of the matter he decided that
some stern measure must be resorted
TO in order to have the girl taken care
of. He consulted with Judge Gunnell
OF the juvenile court and 1t was de-
clded that the aid Of the city police
would have to he invoked The ambu,
lance was again called and accom-
panied by two policemen, went to the
Chesapeake, where the woman and
her child were located. Mrs. Prestin
refused to allow them to take her child
away, and the child also begged pite-
ously to be allowed to remain with
her mother. Finally the police were
required to use force to separate the
two In the fray the child clung te-
naciously to her mother Screaming
and protesting, the woman was forced
to rear room and the am
bulance attendants forcibly laid
the little girl on the stretcher and
carried her, still crying piteously, to
the ambulance, where She was again
started to the hospital. In the mean.
time the police patrol had arrived and
Mrs. Prestin was placed therein and
taken to the police station.
AS she was being led across the
walk a small boy broke through the
crowd which had collected and cried
out:
That's my mother; please don't
take her away from me-" and started
TO follow the wagon.
A man in the crowd picked the boy
up and tried to sootne him but the
boy refused TO be consoled and was