The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-01-11
Sidney F. Karns Granted Le-
gal Separation from lsa-
belle Harms by Judge Fox
in Circuit Court.
ADOPTED A CHILD
WHILE IN DETROIT
Mrs. Harms Had Alleged that
Harms Was the Father
4 Trouble Will Result for a
Hospital and Physician.

The final chapter in one of the most
sensational divorce cases ever heard
in the Wayne circuit court was settled
this morning when Sidney F. Karns
was granted divorce from Isabelle
Karns.
Mr.. and Mrs. Karns were married
at the Westcott hotel February 6,
1911. They kept house and lived to-
IGether for two weeks following their
marriage. Mrs. Karns then is said to
have informed her husband that she
would not live in Richmond with any
imam and that she was going to Wind
sor. Canada, her former home, to set
tie some business affairs.
Karns followed her and they lived
together in Windsor four days. While
here Karns said he learned that his
wife was the mother of an illegitimate
child who was living with her aunt,
Sarah Sullivan, IA Dun Donald street,
Toronto, and did not know that the
woman she was living with was not
her own mother.
When confronted with the charges,
Mrs. Karns admitted the entire accu-
sation according to her husbands
story She told her husband that the
father Of the child had been drowned.
- Harms Came Here.
Yarns then came to this city, refus-
Ing to support his wife who remained
ID Windsor for short time and came
here later.
Her husband was testifying in his
brothers divorce case Feb. 16, 1912,
when Mrs. Karns entered the circuit
court room here with baby in her
arms and confronting him ordered
that her husband be arrested for wife
desertion and claimed the child was
his son. Later while in restaurant
on South Eighth street Mrs. karns met
her husband and publicly accused him
of being the father of the child and
asked that he support her and the
baby. Karns refused and was arrest
sd on a charge of child desertion,
preferred by Mrs. Harms.
} He then went to Windsor and De-
troit to investigate the matter. Mrs.
Harms claimed the child had been
Mercy hospital at Detroit. Karns en-
paoyed detectives and learned that his
wife had gone to the Detroit hospital
and applied for a child which she said
she. wanted to adopt. When asked
her reasons for so-doing she told the
hospital authorities that she had met
with an accident and she feared her
husband would be displeased. The
hospital authorities then informed her
that at a branch of the hospital To-
Gated in Windsor there was a child
whom she probably could adopt. The
mother of the child consented to the
request and the baby was given to
Mrs. Karns. 1t was this child that
Mrs. Karns had while in Richmond,
Karns said he ascertained.
Karns learned also that birth GER
tificate had been filed with the au-
thorities which showed that the birth
of the child was on December 10.
though it was not filed until May Is.
The certificate was filed by DR.. H c.
Walker, 413 Canton street, Detroit 1t
was fraudulent and the physician was
paid to file 1t according to Karns' de-
tectives who investigated the matter.
B. c. Robbins was employed by
Harms to go to Windsor and investi-
gate the affair. Mr.. Robbins learned
that Mrs. Karns had attempted to OBJ
tain an affidavit from Jennie Sterling,
matron of the hospital, that the child
belonged to her. This was refused.
Said She Had Money.
Mr.. Karns' attorney then confronted
Mrs. Karns and asked her what she
had to say. She did not deny that the
child was not her own though she re-
fused to state who the mother of r.
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