The Washington herald., 1912-11-24
COURT TAKES SON
FROM MOTHER
Mrs. Baxter Mckee. Wife of Pitts
burg Millionaire, Wins Suit
Against Daughter-in-law.
JUDGMENT IS THOUGHT SEVERE

Paris. Nov. 2S.-The first tribunal OF
the Seine, Monsieur Monier being presi-
dent Judge, has rendered a decision in
the suit brought by Mrs. II. Sellers Nc
Kee, wife of the Pittsburg millionaire
and mother of A. Hartupee Mckee, for
mer husband of Mrs. Cornelius Baxter
Tevis Mckee, against her former daugh-
ter-fn-Iaw for the separation of the lit
tie six-year-old son of the Hart McKees
from his mother. on the grounds that
the child cannot be properly brought up
in the custody Of his mother.
Mrs. Sellers Mckee brought no new
charges against Mrs. Baxter Tevis Nc
kee merely claiming in her complaint
that records of the court proceedings
have shown that the mother by her own
acts had rendered herself absolutely un-
ht to retain the child in her possession.
The Judgment of the court is most Sc
we're and one rarely taken, except in
extreme cases. 1t orders the child, A.
Hartupee Mckee, jr., placed in charge
Of the eminent Prof. Chauvet, 7 Rue
Francisque Sarcey. by January l, 1913,
10 live in his family and be educated
by him. For only six months of each
year the mother is to be permitted on
the first and third Thursdays of each
month TO take the boy out from 10
o'clock IN the morning until in the
evening. During vacation she is to be
allowed to have her boy with her one
month and the father Is TO have the
boy one month also. In asking for
Judgment on the facts contained in the
court records Mrs. Sellers Mckee called
particular attention to the details of the
suit Mrs Baxter Tevis Mckee brought
against Najib Pasha.
According to the records this Turk was
most friendly with Mrs. Baxter Tevis Nc
Eee during the divorce proceedings
against Hartupee Mckee, and loaned her
money at that time amounting to 100000.
for which she gave him bonds of the Erie
Railroad Company for nearly double that
amount. Later, the friendship having
been broken. the Turk refused TO return
the bonds. and Mrs. Baxter Tevis Mckee
brought suit for their recovery. BY some
leakage the strict privacy guaranteed to
her by her lawyers was violated. and the
affair threatened to become a public scan
dal. So Mrs. Mckee withdrew her suit,
fearing the facts in the case would cause
Mrs Sellers Mckee to demand that the
court separate her from her son.
Tells of Friendship.
Naiib Pasha, in his answer to Mrs.
Teyis McKee's suit. gave details of an
divorce proceedings, giving proofs of
financial aid given her during that pc
riOd. Before the withdrawal of the suit
it was proven that the bonds given to the
Turk by Mrs. Mckee were the ones she
told the court had been taken and dissi-
pated by Hartupee Mckee during ther
married life. This accusation was not
recognized by the court in the divorce
proceedings.
Najib Pasha's answer was brought in
the name of Prince Jean Ghika, who
married Miss Hazel Singer, daughter of
Charles ]. Singer, of Chicago, who be-
came Mrs. McKee's friend and adviser
after she had quarreled with the Turk.
Another name introduced in Mrs. Nc
KEGS complaint is that of Count An
tonic Apponyi, late secretary of the
Austrian Embassy at Brussels, in con-
nection with whom some most interest
ing letters from Mrs. Baxter Tevis Nc
Kee to him have been presented to the
court. The count became very friendly
with Mrs. Mckee, and after a time, il
aupears wrote letters to her complain
ing in strong terms of her mode of life
and her treatment Of him. Mrs. Mckee
went to Monsieur Mouquin, chief of
surety of Paris. and asked that the
count be ordered to remove himself and
reside away from Paris Chief Mouquin
assured her this could not be done, but
notified the count to discontinue sending
Mrs. Mckee letters of advice or COM
plaint Count Apponyi has since mar
ried a beautiful English girl