The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19
SEEK LITTLE ONES
Mrs. Myrtle Buck Appeals to
the Sheriff.
Wants Help to Locate Her
Three Little Children.
TAKEN FROM HER.
Had Been Awarded Custody in
Divorce Proceedings.
Fears Oldest Son Was Drowned
at Wichita.

A sensational fight which has been
waged throughout half a dozen
states between divorced parents, L.
C. Harris and Myrtle Buck for the
custody of their three children has
opened in Topeka with Myrtle's plea
to the sheriff for aid in locating
them.
The mother is now the loser in the
fight, largely due she says to Myra
McHenry and other forces which took
her children away from her on the
grounds of nonsupport after she had
been granted their care in her divorce
suit. Juanita aged 10, and Roger
about 10 have been hidden from her
entirely while, though she knows
where the youngest, Edith, is kept in
Wichita, she can not even get to see
her.
The Christian Service league Of
Wichita also comes in for large
share of the blame and unfair treat
ment is alleged through all the pro-
ceedings to take her children from
her.
The divorce of Myrtle Buck and
Lincoln c. Harris, travelling repre-
sentative of Golfers Weekly, was
obtained in Kansas City about seven
years ago. Both parties had lived in
Oklahoma Thence repaired Miss
Buck with her children and took q
claim near Tyrone. Later she went
to Wichita and while there was en-
ployed by the Christian Service league
TO travel for them selling books and
getting members. 1t was during this
employment she says that she learned
something had gone wrong. Harris
had been about the town trying to get
the children and had engaged the po-
lice, Mrya McHenry, and the Chris
tan Service league, OF which the po-
lice matron is a member, to help him.
This triumvirate she alleges present
&c such false testimony before Deputy
Judge McCandless of the Wichita pro
late court that he deprived her OF the
custody of the children and they were
placed in a children's home from which
they ran away only to be placed IN
separate families where they were no
better satisfied.
Then it was a man who would be a
friend to her but whom she suspects
of being q friend rather to her Tor
Z er husband tod her he knew where
her chitdr Sn were and would send them
to her wherever she wanted him to.
She secured work in Nara Visa, New
Mexico, where she wanted them sent.
On her way out, however. she stopped
20 miles east of her destination al Dali
hart. Texas, to work a day sewing.
While there she was surprised to see
Ter children rcnning from one depot TO
another. She called them and they ran
tc her as Lappy as could be. And she
learned that her friend" had paid
their car fare to DaIhart, telling them
to run to the other depot as quick as
they could and go to Roswell to see
their grandmother. She suspected that
Harris was to be there TO grab them
but failed.
Then she look them out to Nara
Visa and kept them some time until
she was compelled to go to Oklahoma
where ner claim had been contested
when she placed them with a lady for
care until she returned.
While she was gone. the ever ready
Harris appeared upon the scene and
ian away with the children One was
eft in Wichita where she is not allow
ed to see her and the other two older
ores are gone, whittier she can not
learn.
Since she has been in Topeka there has
been an article in q paper here report
ing the death of WflIe Rogers while
swimming with a crowd Of BOYS above the
Orient bridge at Wichita. Her son was
called Willie though his name was Roger
and she thinks that the boy was her own.
She wrote the police there but could get
no satisfaction, she says
The woman is almost desperate in her
demands that she be granted the right to
see her babies but it will first be neces-
Sary to locate Harris and the children and
the officers will be busy. Meanwhile
MyrIe Buck intends to consult attorneys
in an effort to devise some way to re-
cover custody of the children