Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-02

Like a chapter from novel of
present-day society are the asser-
tions. charges and admissions in the
suit brought by Mrs. Virginia Lee
WEIGH, wife of Thomas Carey WEIGH.
assistant executive secretary for the
Philippine Islands, foR permission to
visit her I3-year-old son at stated
intervals. The boy is now in the Gus
tody of his father, Henry cambridge
Baker, a wealthy New York business
man, whose home is in Elizabeth.
and who maintains a town residence
in ew York.
Mrs. WEIGH was divorced from Mr..
Baker on October %, 1911, when she
brought suit on the ground that he
had deserted her. By prearrange-
ment with Mr.. Baker the boy, Henry
Martyr Baker, went with his father
because he was able to support the
lad in style BETTING his past life.
Now. since her marriage to the Uni
ted States government attache, Mrs.
Which believes that she is able to
support Henry, or Martyr, as he
was known. ard as she declares the
boys sympathies are with her, she
petitioned Vice. Chancellor Howell
yesterday afternoon. through Ralph
e. Lum, not for the custody of the
boy, but just for permission to see
him at times.
Opposes Mothers Petition.
Edward A. Day, counsel for the
father however, urged so many rea-
sons alleging that Mrs. WEIGH is
not a fit person to see the boy that
order until further proofs were shown
m May g.
The prime reason that Mr.. Baker
holds against his former wife's see
ing Martyr is that. as he alleges, she
has tried to poison the boys mind
against him. One specific instance Is
recited in which ii is set forth that
she came all the way from Manila
to see the lad, and virtually kid
mapped him from his governess as he
left school in New York one after
noon. She took him to the Waldorf
Astoria. and after ensconcing him in
4 window seat on the Fifth avenue
eide, made sure that his father would
be notified This was done through
the medium of the distraught gov
erness.
Then, Mr. Baker says, Mrs. WEIGH
called UP the New York newspaper
offices and asked to have reporters
sent around to chronicle the scene
she expected when the father ar
rived.
Newspapers More Than Accommodating.
The newspapers went her one bet
ter. They sent around photogra-
pliers, too, and in the morning and
evening editions of March s 1872.
there appeared first-page stories With
pictures of Parents wrangle over
child at Waldorf and other head
lines Of like tenor. She did this, she
declared. ITO let Mr.. Baker and "the
!, Bakeyf and Kennedy, families know
she was determined to win access TO
the boy.
The publicity was not the most dis
astrous end of the Waldorf episode,
Mr.. Baker sets up. Mrs. Welch's
primal object in kidnapping the boy
for so brief a time was, he says, to
poison the lads mind against the
father.
When Mr. Baker arrived at the Wal
dorf he saw his former wife sitting
with her son in window seat. His
lawyer, Francis Wosdbridge, of y
william street, New York, whom he
had stopped ron his way uptown,
went over and spoke to Mrs. WEIGH,
while Mr.. Baker waited in another
room.
Mrs. WEIGH told me she wanted
me to know her plans" says Mr..
Woodbridge in his affidavit. 1--WE left
MARTIN at the table and went outside
TO talk. She said she had arranged
20 have the reporters present. asked
her, above all things, not to poison
the boys mind against his father, and
she replied. You are too late. Do
you think | am a fool? | have al
res.dy told Martyr how badly I have
been treated"
: Welch accompanied the lad as far as
an armory where the Knickerbocker
Grays, junior military company of
which Martyr was drum major. was
practising for drill before the Union
League Club. The governess went to
get him there. She, too, makes an
affidavit and says that Martyr was