The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-21
'STOR|Es. DIFFER AS
H tn CHANDLER BABY
Women of Crittenton Home
Will Ask for Return of
Foster Mother.
|REOUISITlON is DENIED
|Governor Spry Declines to Re-
quest Idaho Executive to
Grant Requisition.
|REOUISITION is DENIED
Ial 10 The Tribune.

Special 10 The Tribune.
II OGDEN, Oct. 20.--Mrs. Ethel Chandler,
wanted at Ogden for an alleged brutal
assault said TO have been made upon her
|, nine months -old adopted child, VIII not
be brought back to Ogden. Despite the
fact that the women OF the Crittenton
home, who are pushing the case were
assured by Governor William Spry at
I salt Lake last week that he would Is
rue a requisitIon II the woman did not
Voluntarily come back 10 Ogden, the state
executiye has written to city ,, p,h'slIe,dih 'sIsri,
lB. NJ Sheets. declaring I'm cHcct tnat
| q reQuisiton would be useless since the
Rovernor OF Idaho had assured Mrs
he would honor no such process from
rho Utah governor.
IL Al the hearing last week before Cover :
nor Spry. the Utah executive announced
af the beginning that acquisitions In .mls-
4demeannr cnsos are rather unusual Up
-on the showing made by the Crlttcnton
home women and the city physician, the
governor, however promised 10 Issue the
requisltion for Mrs Chandler Il she
would not return to This state without
IL. Such was the understanding OF every
body concerned. After a conference with
The attorney general OF Utah and his
assistants. II Is said Governor Spry was
advised that Issuing requisition In cases
.other than fclonies would set q bad
n
Tween the attorney generals office OF
/ |trtah and the attorney general OF Idaho,
with the Information from the latter Of
flee that the Idaho governor had already
I exprcssed himself regarding the case and
i promised Mrs. Chandler that he would
! honor no requisition for her return to
this state
VIII Appeal to Hawley,
The women OF Ogden who arc back of
the charges against Mrs. Chandler say
7faok ti,o,, ka IN r.
J nor Hawley, asking that their side be
Al the hearing before Governor spry,
ATTORNEY John c. Davis as the represen-
+ iatiye OF Mrs. Chandler read affidavIts
from Or. G. ". Groom. DR.. A. A. Robin
] son and Or. f. NJ. Conroy.. reputable Og-
den physielans: Each ,j,ii physician lar, .ss swoIe
Ter, the nine months old adopted child OF
n the woman. al various times and that the
! INJURIES and bruises said TO have been
Noticeable the little girls body were
1Igreatly exaggerated,
Z Doctors Find Charges Unfounded
n DIR. Conroy In his affidavit said lie ex-
Iemined the child on October or October
"a; that with the exception OF a slight
dissoloration about the bridge OF the nose
evidently caused by a minor injury. the
baby was In excellent ply steal condition
and bore every sign Of physical. moral
5sIaud mental care. Dr., COnroy sai1 Iur-
lthermore that from his observations the
Ichargos that Mrs, Chandler was mentally
incapable Of caring for tho child were
IeDtirely unwarranted
n DIR. Robinsons affidavit was similar He
Iexamined the child October and found
tic slight discooralion about the nose.
iHe said he believed the charges TO be
IunQualinedlv false and unwarrantcd and
That the charges OF mental Irresponsible
|tty preferred against the woman he be
tlieved. were equally unwarruntcd and
malicious
DR.. Green, tho family physician for the
fChandlers since March 30 said he had
\, Known Mrs. Chandler since that time and
that he knew her tn be a careful Low
Tins mother. He examined the child whom
fthe alleged assault was said to have beer
tmade, and found the injuries 10 bic moth.
ing more than a slight bruise on the
bridge of the nose which the physician
believed was caused by a fall.
H. Ulterior Motives Alleged
The statement OF Dr. Anna Ries Find
ley and the women OF the Crittcntor
nome were dramatically opposed 10 those
OF The doctors referred TO- They claim
that the childs face was bla ackcned anr
pruised, and that they have evidence &c
show the child was badly treated bv Il.
foeter mother 49,
E j. Chandler and his wife asser, that
tne prosecution has ultcrlor motives
(which have not vet developed The chiIf
|%as taken from the Crlttentou home
where IL had been left us a foundlinr an,
" is said that an effort Is being made n,
iIiends OF the baby's mother to res,or,