The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-26
Judge Dana Will Hear Weaver
Case on Tuesday.
Whether Father or Mother
Shall Have Little Girl.
ECHO OF DENVER SUIT.
Divorced Wife Claims Husband
Stole Norma Louise.
Spends Part of Christmas With
Her by Order of Court.

The legal fight in the district court
for the possession of five-year-old
Norma Louise Weaver was continued
by Judge Dana until 8 o'clock Tues
day morning when Attorney Atchison
stated that Weaver would attempt to
show that the mother is not competent
to care for the child. Mrs. Weaver
wept when she was told that the case
had been continued.
Weaver, it is said; will attempt to
show when the habeas corpus proceed
ings are tried that. Weaver will make a
serious ard earnest contest for the
custody of the little girl and that the
mother is not competent to care for
the daughter. Mrs. Weaver will deny
these charges most emphatically and
will submit to a scrutiny OF her char
acter by the court.
The woman will try to prove to the
court that her former husband took
the child from her arms while she was
in her possession in Denver. He then
took Norma Louise to a hotel, 1t is
claimed. where she cried for her
mother who was not allowed to see
her. Two weeks ago Weaver brought
the child to Topeka and took her to
parents near Tecumseh, although
there had been issued in Denver a
restraining order which forbade Weav-
er molesting the mother and daugh-
ter. Mrs. Weaver also alleges that her
former husband does not want the lit
tie girl, but that his actions are mere
spitework and that the grandmother
made a statement a few days ago that
she did not want the child in her pos
session. Tears streamed down Mrs
Weaver's face this morning as she
talked of her married life and recent
trouble.
Harry doesn't want Norma, L know
he DOESN'T declared the little woman,
who wore a fashionable tailored suit
and expensive white furs and muff and
h nj
welled her eyes and caused her body
to shake with emotion. 81 know he
doesn't want her. 1t is all spite work
He wants me to be unhappy And now
he comes to Topeka with those awful
disgraceful stories. They are not true
Every one of them is false and he
dares not try to prove them. He told
those same stories in Denver. The pa
pers printed them and it nearly drove
me wild. When the case was tried, he
did not try to prove the horrid state
ments. Judge Allen knew they We're
not true and he gave me my child, be-
cause he knew / loved her the most
and would care for her as mother
should do.
"One day about two weeks ago Har-
ry came to the house and took baby
out of my arms. He literally tore her
from me. L was afraid to hold onto
her for fear he would hurt or injure
her. He took her to hotel, where he
stayed and my brother went to get her.
He wouldn't let me have her. although
she had cried and cried and told the
IandIady she wanted her mamma.
Then he brought her to Topeka. My
lawyer wanted me to have warrant
issued for his arrest, but 1 didn't do
it, because couldn't be that mean. L
have been away from baby two weeks,
the longest we have ever been apart.
1 haven't very many friends here and
his folks are influential and rich; but
surely the judge won't believe MIN IN
fn a
minutes ago, 1 met him in the hall as
he was leaving the court room. He
had baby in his arms. I ran up to
him and asked that might hold her;
He pushed me away from her and
would not let me take her in my
arms"
was begun in June last year. Judge
to trv to live with her husband. she
saws she went back to him and that
he went to Salt Lake City and said he
would send for her.
I'm all the time he was gone, said
Mrs Weaver, ''he never sent baby or
me a penny. / don't know how would
have lived if it hadn't been for
mamma, who has furnished me money n
and clothed me- Then one day pc
fore the case was tried, he came to
Denver and took baby from me"
weaver is an electrician. He was
married in Lawrence september ID,
~
az child. Ruby Deems, who is a
daughter of the late Edgar Beems
was Topeka girl and the first two
years of her married life was spent IN
ToDelxa The woman was sixteen years
old when she was married. When the
couple moved to Denver five years ago
fine husband secured employment as an
electrician Mrs. Weayer's mother
and brother moved to Denver a fe"
wears ago. At the present time she
j,ss no relatives living in Topeka
Weaver's father is a wealthy farmer
and lives near Tecumseh.
Under the terms of an order ISSUED
eotrrdav nv Judge Dana, Mrs. weaver
was allowed to spend few hours Sun.
day with her baby, the possession IN, o. o.
whom will be decided in the distr1c
oo1,I-+ Tuesday morning. Mrs. Weaver
viii also be given possession of the
child from / to 5 O'Clock this after
noon. It will then be returned to the
fe+Ta,. who has been ordered to bring
the child to the court room Tuesday.