Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-23
child SOBS FOR
AUNTS AS She IS
GIVEN TO MOTHER
Alice Lyness Rebels Against
Decision in Habeas Cor
pus Proceeding.
noESN'T LIKE HER MAMMA
Attorney ard One Aunt Cited for Con
,empt After Filing Dependency
Proceedings

81 don't want 10 go with my nam
don't love her and 1 won't stay
,,,h her. want To be with my
.-r,s- sobbed little Alice Lyness, II
-,,-. old. in circuit court this morn
d. when Judge r. w. Olmsted
.xzrded her TO her mother. Mrs Olive
r,sha-t OF Huston. MINI She attempt
a "a run away from her parent when
Living the court house and protested
rat she would not remain at home.
The child. since she was three
-,onths OF age. has been in the care OF
her aunts, Florence and Electa Lyness,
,sI4phone operators in Moline The
-,o.her remarked and when she came
% claim her daughter, the aunts re-
t,sed To give her up. Mrs. Eckhart
IAN fled IN circuit court, through
her attorney. II. A Weld, a petition for
writ Of habeas corpus. in an effort TO
secure her custody, which the court
granted this morning.
Judee Olmsted in rendering his de-
eisiou declared that he thought the
mother was the proper party TO have
the care OF her own daughter. He
commented upon the situation should
ne child be given the aunts and they
should marry He declared he could
see no legal reason why the mother
should not be allowed to have her
daughter.
Attorneys c. s Roberts and F. r.
Thompson represented the aunts and
they made a bitter fight for the little
girl The former. after the decision
Of Judge Olmsted. urged that the child
b placed with some third party in
the county. pending an appeal but the
court refused 20 agree to any such
plan. Attorney Roberts showed that
an appeal would be useless II the
mother vas allowed TO take the child
outside OF the Jurisdiction OF the
court
File New silt.
Immediately after the ruling. Attor-
uey Roberts fled IN county court a
petition on behalf OF Florence Lyness,
TO have the child declared a depend
eut by Judge b. 5. Bell, IN which case
the court might take the child from
the mother on the grounds that she
IL an improper person to have the Gus
tody Of the girl. The papers were
placed in the hands OF a deputy sheriff
and ne went % the house where the
mother has been staying but she could
rot be located About an hour later,
the mother returned and she was I'M
medlately served with papers. She
and the little girl returned to the court
house and Judge Bell ruled that the
child should be placed in the custody
Of Sheriff o. L. Bruner, pending the
hearing OF the issues Oct. l.
The petition makes an attack on the
past character OF the mother. alleges
that the child Is illegitimate and that
the baby abandoned by the mother
when only three weeks old. Il is al
legged that the mother has wholly
neglected. failed and refused to
care for said child and that she is an
unfit and improper guardian and
v.oily unable 10 properly care for.
Protect, train. control and discipline
he said child"
Claim Non-Support.
II IS declared that the best interests
Of the child and OF the people will be
conserved by having the child placed
Under e guardian 10 be named b. the
eo1rt- II IS claimed that for u years
the mother has never contributed in
any way 20 the support OF the child,
and that the child herself has repeat
edly refused 20 live with her mother.
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