The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-05-24
GRANDMA FIGHTS FOR CHILD
EXPERIENCES or MR. EASTON
PREVIOUS TO HABEAS CORPtS.
First Hc HAD His Late Wife's Mother sum.
.mOned for kidnapping and Then He
Met Her In the street In single Com.
bat, In which She says She Heat Him

Henry Clement Easton. nephew Of the
late Edmund Clarence Stedman. decided
yesterday afternoon to have the custody
Of his four-year-old daughter, Dorothy.
determined in the Supreme Court after his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Annie Irene Jewell.
Of 81 East Seventyeighth street. had been
taken to the Harlem police court on a
summons charged with kidnapping tho
child last saturday. About the time
Ma gistrate Corrigan dismissed the COM
plaint against Mrs. Jewell her son-in-law
got writ Of ha beas corpus from Supreme
Court Justice BischofY directing Mrs.
Jewell to produce the child in court to-
morrow
Easton and his wife were separated
more than year ago and at that time
Easton brought habess corpus pro-
ceedings to get the child from its mother.
The court awarded the custody to Mrs
Easton. with directions that the father
be permitted u see the little girl at
reasonable times. Mrs. Easton and he.
daughter lived with Mrs. Jewell. Ga
April 10 Mira, Elston died and at her
deathbed she and her husband were
reconciled. Two days later Eiston
DleIutu WIN tIls ttllll W
let Dorothy return to him. and Mrs Jewell
consented
last Friday afternoon while the child
was playing in Riverside Park. accom-
panied by nurse. Mrs. Jewell came
along and spoke to the little girl. When
the child saw her she cried Il want 10
go To my grandma" and Mrs. Jewell
took Dorothy home with her. Easton
went to the Harlem court the next day
and got a summons.
On Sunday morning. according to Mrs.
Jewell. when she CT me out ot her house
in East seventy eighth street with the
child. on her way to church, Easton ran
out Of nearby doorway where he had
been waiting. The little girl clung to
her grandmother's skirts and Easton
walked along beside them until Mrs.
Jewell started to board trolley car.
when he seized the child.
Mrs Jewell took tho little girl in her
arms and rctreated to an iron fence
around n house at Seventy-eighth street
and Maids On avenue where she threatened
her son-in-law with hor umbrella and
called for help. The child cried A crowd
gathered and some one sent to the East
SiNty-seventh street station for the police
reserves. When they arrived Mrs Jewell
pat her granddaughter down OH tho
sidewalk and said:
We will decide right here who is to have
possession Of this little girl. Dolly.
do you want TO go with your father or
with me?"
The child replied Il want to go with
my grandmother
Easton insisted 10 the policeman that
his mother-in-law had kidnapped his
child. Mrs Jewell was permitted 10 take
the child back homo with her. but Easton
planted himself in the vestbul" Of her
residence and finally grabbed his dau gh.
ter. Tho little girl kicked and cried
until Mrs Jewell pitched into her son-in-
law with her fists. sh essays. and he finally
put tho child down and went away.
When Mrs. Jewell appeared in the
Harlem court Yesterday she said that she
did not take tho child from her father,
hut tha, the little girl ran up TO her and
pleaded TO go back home with her, and
she didn't have the heart TO refuse
Mrs. Jewell said that some years ago
she and her daughter lived in the old
Madison Avenue Hotel of which Easton's
father was the proprietor and where
Easton was clerk Against her wishes
EaSton married her daughter when the
latter was only I6 years old She said
that Easton had lived with her daughter
only shirt time and had seen his little
girl very seldom. She also said that
Easton was anxious TO get possession
Of the little girl because his mother il
Christian Scientist and has an inspiration
that he will be spirred on to greatness
through the child.