Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-29
CHILDREN FOUCHT AND BIT OFFICERS Three Little Ones, Not Properly Cared For.
 Taken From Their
 Parents. AN EXCITING SCENE Taken to Little Rock. BL; Pa"ents S,, They Will Walk There and
 Find Them.
AN EXCITING SCENE,

Fighting fiercely and screaming. Adley Edison Oaks, Mabel Oaxs and John Oaks, eleven, seven and five years respectively, were torn from ! ehelf mothers arms ill Judge C. NJ. Philpots office yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock by deputy sheriffs and taken to Little Rock by W. B. Green. dis 19let superintendent of the Childrens' Home Society to fe properly reared and cared for. The order was issued by Judge C. M. Philpot, presiding ov CT the first session of the Juvenile Court in this city. w. A. Oaks and Eliza Oaks, parents of the children protested vigorously against the ac- ton of the court, but Judge Philpot 1 after hearing much evidence that convinced him that the children we're being brought up under most unfav- orable conditions and were not pro- yded for, stood firm and took them 1 II oiH lHtlI pdl eHtS. i T dislike to do this said Judge i Phllpot, "but for the sake of the chill dren, yourselves and the community at large I must take the children ,, away from you. It is only for the l ss mpathy that l have for the mother that l will permit the youngest baby to remain with her. hut unless you care for the child properly I shall be l forced to also take the baby and attention
 The mother declared that she would kill herself and when Judge Philpot told hel that he would take the child if she insisted on making her threat good, she changed her mind. The parents left the court room in tears, declaring that they would walk to Little Rock and find their little ones.
 Judge Philpot issued the order for the removal of three children, afte.' many complaints had reached his ears that they were not properly car ed for and were not being schooled or properly fed or clothed. The fath CT is a handle maker, but witnesses testified that he squanders his mo- ney and neglects his family. The mother, it was testified, also neg lects them. The children had the ap- pearance of being poorly fed and their general appearance indicate poverty of the worst kind. The oldest boy and girl both declared that they would not Ee taken away and when Sheriff Brewster told his deputies. R. H. Williams. C. c. Green and Dave Glover to take them from the court room the children screamed at the top of their voices, fought and bit the officers and had to be carried away by force. The mother and father stood by weeping, but were compell- ed to remain in the court room until the children had been taken to Union Station and placed on the Cotton Belt train in charge of MT. Green. Before his departure Mr. Green bought the boy a cap, hut he refused to wear it.
 The screams of the children brought a large crowd into the streets and to the court house. Many persons turn ed their heads as the little ones clung to their mother, screaming to be permitted to remain.
 "You may talk about your white slavery" said Oaks, but this is wholesale kidnapping.
 The boy, who uses profane language like a man, shook his fist at Judge Philpot and said: They're nothing but a lot of cut throats and thieves. I'll kill myself if they take me away. I won't go, that's ~al1' But he went