The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-11-04
WAS FATHERS DAY
IN K|OO|ES COURT
Several Fathers Have Their
Offspring Made Wards
Of the County.

Mothers-called drunkards and
moral prcverts-were blamed for the
condition Of several children arraign-
ed in the juvenile department of the
| Wayne circuit court, before Judge
Fox, Saturday, 1t might be sad .hat
the session was altogether a fathers
day, as the fathers and not the moth
crs appeared with their children. and
related to the court reasons why pre-
, tation officer, Mrs. Elizabeth Gambler,
had to file charges III the court TO
make the children wards of the board
Of childrens 8 guardians, which VIII
find proper homes for the children.
David Graham appeared in court
with four of his children, Theodore,
aged 7; Harold, aged .; Homer, aged
8; and Marie. aged IL, and explained
that they had been abandoned by the
mother. He had tried, he said, since
the alleged abandonment Of the moth
er, Ida Graham, to care for the chill
dren, but found himself unequal to the
task, inasmuch as he could not be
with them all the time. A baby child,
he declared, he would keep and try to
provide a home for, but he gave over
the other children to the board or
guardians, and they will be placed in
Whites institute, he arranging to pay
their board and provide clothing. He
will be permitted to visit them when
ever he so desires.
Helen l.. Sites, aged II, and James
A. Sites, aged 13, appeared with their
father. George II. Sites. and were
made wards of the board and they al
so will be placed in Whites institute
The mother is alleged to be habitual
drunkard, and now, according to the
affidavit, is confined at the Home for
tence.
The Indiana Home society will he
given the custody of Philip G. Web
ster, the child of an alleged degener-
ate mother. Mabel Webster The
father is unknown. The child was not
brought to court, the facts in the case
being recited by the probation Off
Ger.
Lester Parker appeared with his son
able to make the lad mind and his
efforts to place him in a home in the
country had been frustrated by the boy
refusing to remain.
The lad will very likely be sent
to the Indiana Reform School for
Boys in case there is accommodation
crowded. 1t was announced in the
court that several of the charges of
the courty probably would be releas-
ed from the reform school on parole,
and under these circumstances it
might be possible to get the Parker
lad in the institution. The boys pa
rents are separated.
Jennie Loach, of Fountain City, who
adopted Josephine CRANKY, the child
taking the name of Loach, intends to
fight the charge filed in the court
that she is not proper person for
it's custody. The probation officer
charges that Mrs. Loach is of a vicious
and immoral temperament. The case
will be heard next week. The child
is five years old. The authorities said
they had received several complaints,
which caused them to take this &C.
tion.
Members of the board of children's
guardians were guests of Judge Fox
on Saturday morning during the ses-
sion. Ordinarily they do not attend,
the routine court affairs being left in
the hands of the Judge and other coun-
ty officials
inf hx 10 f.
taches that conditions in many homes
in this city are very bad and it is an
ticipated that several more charges
will be filed.