The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-03
'WAGES MERRY WAR
= AGAINST NIECE
Mrs. Coop Declares She Is Too
Friendly With Prof. Coop, But
Latter Wins

NEW YORK. Jan. Ills wife or
bis niece?
That's the question that Prot
Squire Coop, head OF the music de
partment OF the University OF Utah
has been up against here in New
York for several days.
And Uncle Sam had hand in IL,
toe, because there was strong Ell
fort to deport jeanette Cooke, who IS
a handsome English girl, the niece
of Mrs. Coop.
Mrs. Coop said 10 the immigration
officers at Ellis Island:
Within a month after my niece
had arrived in our home in Salt Lake
City from England on her first visit
over | saw only too plainly that
jeanette had made a strong impress
sion on my husband. Prof. Cook pos
sesses unusual magnetism for wo-
men. and il can be imagined what
was the result with a girl OF fifteen,
which she was when We first took her
into our home when her mother died.
Zone day ! asked jeanette IL she
knew what her pronounced admira-
ton for my husband would lead to-
She laughed at me- spoke 10 my hus-
band about IL. He reiterated his VOWS
tof undiminished love and told me my
nerves were unstrung. He advised
me TO take up some studies at the
University of Chicago, which | did.
After | had been away from home
for a while friends wrote and told
me that my husband and niece treat
ed each other far more affectionately
than their relationship demanded.
Il begged my husband to return
Jeanette 10 her fathers home. AZ
length he agreed TO do So But he
went with her, engaging nearby cab
ins. and after their arrival in Europe
spent much time travelling about be-
fore they went 10 Jeanette's home.
jeanette had only been in London
a short time before my sister wrote
telling me that my husband and
jeanette were writing love letters 20
each other, letters filled with tender
est sentiments and expressions OF
undying love.
In this manner Mrs. Coop says she
was informed that her husband was
intending 10 bring jeanette back into
this country. And she Immediately
set about TO prevent the return OF her
niece. When the latter was due TO
arrive in New York, she was met by
Prof. Coop, whom she evidently ex-
pected and by her aunt, whose pres
ence was not so welcome.
immigration officers had already
been notified of the girls coming and
she was detained on Ellis Island. af-
ter the officers saw the professor
rush inside Jeanette's cabin and catch
the girl in his arms. The fervent
salutations exchanged between the
two added a further argument to the
wife's charges.
e. Mrs Coop and her husband then
began their contest over the girl, the
one to keep her here, the other to
deport her as an undesirable citizen.
As rapidly as one made a charge, the
other denied IL, and the board was III
n uuandary.
maiden or for the beautiful matron?
Both were in tears; both loved the
man who apparently was the bone Of
contention between them. What
should they do?
n 1ney reserved decision overnight
Next day the professor played his
trump card. He showed a legal docu-
ment signed by James Cooke. the
girls father, making Prof Coop
guardian of jeanette. The board
thought that a legalized guardian had
the right TO kiss his ward once in a
while. and that it was possible that
their letters might occasionally smack
of tender sentiments and innocently
So